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.
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[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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    above all, the Imbecillity, or the juft Harmony ful lifting between the urinary Organs, alter the Urine. Another Error no left to be condemned, is to believ that the Quantity of the Urine proceeds always fror the Quantity of the Liquor we drink; ftnce Experienc convinces us of the contrary. The more is our Con ftitution weak or ftrong, hot or phiegmatick, th Urine is more or left abundant* In a weak Conft tution the Pores of the Body being more open’d an relaxed, Part of the Lympha, which ftiould have lep; rated from the Blood in the Kidneys, is evacuated b Sweat, or infenfible Perlpiration, even in a hoc Conft: tution, though perhaps very ftrong, Parts of tha Lympha is confumed by the excefftve Heat of th Body* I am not of the Opinion of fome Phyficians, wh pretend that the Evacuation of the Serum by excefliv Sweats, diminifhes always the Quantity of the Urine lincel have feen, in fome Suhje&s, a very largeEvacua tion of Urine, after an exceftive Sweat; neither wouL their frivolous Reafons,that theBlood being impoverifh’ and Ipoiled of the Spirits which nmft facilitate itsregu far Circulation, and, coniequently, % they, depriv it of the Strength necelTary to force its PalTage throng] the complicated arterial Branches of the Kidneys, wil ever make me alter my Sentiments, fince the Veffel of the urinary Organs admit of a Relaxation in thei Parts, though not fo fenfible a one as the Cuta neons Glands 5 and that it is agreeable to the ft ridel Rules of Anatomy* to thi :k that, in fuch exceffive Secre tions of the Serum from the Blood, it muft flow in ; greater Quantity through its ordinary and natural Con duin, or Pipes, than otherwife, efpecially when th Serum is fuperabundant. That the Serum, evacuated by Urine, or Sweats, i the fame with that of the Blood, is apparent by th< Serum which fwims upon the Blood extracted bi Phlebotomy of the lame Confidence, Colour and Tafte < Urine. P