A full examination ... of ... Mrs. Stephens's cures, and medicine for the stone and gravel : In two parts I. Containing nine of the principal cases, first published by D. Hartley, now here stated in a very different manner ... The second part contains Mrs. Stephens's receipt, with ... observations ... thereon / [By Denis de Coetlogon].

Date:
1740
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A full examination ... of ... Mrs. Stephens's cures, and medicine for the stone and gravel : In two parts I. Containing nine of the principal cases, first published by D. Hartley, now here stated in a very different manner ... The second part contains Mrs. Stephens's receipt, with ... observations ... thereon / [By Denis de Coetlogon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been, efpecially if continued fo long as thefe were, to wit, off and on, now. at lead two Years ; and for ought I know (till was in Continuance thereof to the lad. But in fine, dying about a Month ago, on opening him there were dill two Stones found in his Bladder, bigas final 1 Chefnuts, though probably about three Years he had ufed this Medicine. But then the Anfwer fird was, that he did not continue it regularly, or had not perhaps taken it for a Year. Yet on fecond Confideration, the AJpft ants to this good Woman, or her Confe¬ derates, next obfirv’d, they faw’d the Stones in two, and thereby demondrated to the Learned in Poli¬ ticks, that her Medicine had had mod extraordi¬ nary Efiedls towards wading them, not perceptible before, and might confequently have diffolved the whole, had not the Patient thus unluckily made his final Exit before this great Cure was duly per¬ formed. Ilf. Thus then it may not be improper to obferve on what has been already faid, that Mr. Snaps the Turner in Panton-ftreet, (a Cafe alfo publifh’d) drank large Quantities of Decoblions of Herbs, as Mallows, &c. at his fird letting out, before the Lie of her Medicine, as well as the ufing of confi- derable Quantities of Oyl and Rum, which did ac¬ cordingly bring away very large Quantities of Gra- vel and Stones, of the latter, at lead, thirty f,mall ones: at the fame time often ufing likewife the Le¬ nitive Eledtuary ; which Lenitive he every now and then continues to ufe even fince the taking of her Medicines, propofing dill to go on with it at pro¬ per times. And tho* he is now ealy and free from voiding of Stones, yet ftill continues to void a glai¬ ry Size with his Urine, the common Humour at¬ tending or producing Stone and Gravel. *Tis true he takes notice, that for all the Stones he voided B 2 before