A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon.

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.
Date:
[1739?]
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Credit: A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    laline Corpufcles, afcer the Evacuation, as its evident b} its brakilh Tafte, and its Analyfis in the Akmbick ? O is it becanle that centrical Corpulcule, borrowsits Acti vity from its different Pofitions, and directed toward it Poles, like the Loadftone, before it might be able to ill that attractive Faculty 5 but if the Pcfition is of n Signification towards it, which muft be thofe refracta' ones which fcornfuliy delpife intimate Affinity ; and wh is not the whole faline Subftance of the Urine petri lied; The real immediate Caufe of the Gravel inth KIDNEYS H E Gravel in the K idneys proceed from a vifcon 1 and tenacious Phlegm, Separated from the Sub ftance of the Blood, and lecreted with the Serum thrc the Vefiels of the Kidneys, and carried from the Tubul Belliani and the Papilla into the Pelvis, where, by it Adhefion to the internal Membrane and by the Heat 0 theReins, its obduratedand concreted fometimes into ai almoft impalpable Sandy Subftance, eafily carried awa] by Urine, and without the Icaft Pain; and fometime into a Gravel or Sand of a bigger Volume, which Gra vel being of a vifcous Subftance in their firft Formation when in fome Quantity, by their Collifion occafionk by the Pluidityof the Urine, are often conglomeratec together, and form that voluminous one, call'd Stone. I fit be ask’d why that vifcous and earthy Subftance does not follow the Rapidity of the Urine, in its en- tire Evacuation through the Ureters, Bladder and Ure; thra, as well as its Secretion through the Veffielsof th<i Kidneys ? I anfwer, that they are forced in the Se; ci etion by a ftrong Impulfion of the Arcanum, diffufee through the whole Mdfs of the Blood, from which it i feparated, and by the Compreffion of the fecretan Vefiels; that finding a larger Capacity in the Pelvis1 and deprived of that Impulfion which could likewif forci