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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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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    the Regulation of his Diet, &c. acquainted me, that he had before the Ufe of Mrs. Stephens's Me¬ dicines been for a Year or two on Vegetable and Milk Diet, together with Brifiol Water, yet found him- felf no way better by this ab (l emious Method. I then obferv’d to him* that there could hardly be two Liquids, in all likelihood, more improper for him than that of Milk and Brifiol Water: And that I was not therefore any v/ay furpriz’d that he had not found him lei f better, by any fuch Method; it being plain to me, that Milk is not of the moft di¬ luent kind; this laft being fo very neceffary in all fuch Cafes; and that the Brifiol Water is as little, or lefs fo, appears as plain from its limy, chalky, or aftringent Quality. Nay, is it not unqueftionable, that the moft certain Ufe of this Water is in the Diabetes? that is in fhort, to remedy our piffingfo often', whereas in that of Gravel, fcjV. Diuretics, and the powerful left Diluents ^ which confequently make us pifs the moft frequently, are accordingly found to be the moft ufeful. As to his Experiments, made no his own Urine (in taking Mrs. Stephens's Me¬ dicines,) as well as on thole of different 'Waters, or Mixtures, Cfr. for the Trial of diffiolving of Stones \ that Water is one of the moft confiderable we ve¬ ry well know, as we have frequently before hin¬ ted, and often fpoke of. Now as to the Why, New-River W^ater fhould alone have a greaterEffe<ft, than when mix’d with her Powder, in relation to diminifhing or wearing of the Stone, it no way appears ftrange to me, tho’ greatly intricate and won¬ derful to him : To me it appears as an Afiringent, or Alkali^ put into this common diluent Water, which being thus clog’d, confequently has thus a lefs dif- folving Quality, as all Liquids, or Menftrums, are only capable of diftolving their proper Quantity of any thing put into them ; and thereafter becomes lefsftrong or efficacious for any fuch-like farther Ufe. But