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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    idek Limpbdj cannot be without a great Commotion the organick Parts, and confequently of the Stone, tich happens oftner in the Winter, than in any other hbn of the Year * A vaft-Quantity of phlegmatick, earthy, and windy .iments, not io entirely or perfectly digefted in the Dniach,or elaborated in the Chilification, enter the Mafs the Blood, loaded with earthy and vifcous CorpuF :s, which by obftruSing the Circulation, caule a snfion in the Veffels, and which Tenfion cannot be thout an extraordinary Commotion of the Fibres, d of the Stone. All Sort of violent Exercife, fuch as Riding, Run- ig, Jumping, &c. capable to caule a Hidden ConcuE m of the Body as to alter the Pofition of the Stone to put it in Motion, occaiion a paroxifro, fince r thole violent Agitations, the Stone grates againflthe rvous Tunick of the Bladder, and if it be rough its Surface, by wounding the tender Membrane ot .e Tunick, caule Inflammation and Excoriation, ah lys attended with excruciating Pains. A bloody Urine, a fcalding Heat in the Evacuation, e Indications of an Inflammation and Excoriation of e inner Membrane of the Bladder, and if in Proceis 7 Time, the Urine comes mixed with a foetid Pus, ie Part mud; be ulcerated. The Paroxifm of the Stone proceeds often, without ly previous Accident, from the Efforts of Nature, id from the mechanical Faculty of the Fibres, that >mpole the Kidneys, which, in Concert exert them- lves to diilodge lo troubled>me a Gueft, which obftrult heir Functions. Therefore it is a general Opinion rat the Fibres of the Kidneys, like the Membranes of le Womb, contrail their Maniculas, for the Difcharge f all little Stones, that lodge tbemfelves in the Gr¬ ins, eipecially when they are of fo large a Volume, 3 to dbftrufl’ their AIIion, which Obflrullion is on fat Occaflon, the Caule of their Motion, for the me Harmony whi h fubffl between the integrants arts of our Body, for the Relief or Eale of each her, is to be met with betwixt the interne organick nes. F ^ DiAQ-