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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    better, yet dill voided the like glary Size, com¬ mon to fuch Cafes, and as fpoke of in Mr. Snape's Cafe. He had, however, according to his Account, taken many Medicines before (taking to hers,) which probably had dome Effed, in ha¬ ving carried off part of the Load of Gravel, or the fizy Humour ; at lead prov’d fome kind of E- vacuation, which was no Diladvantage to the Ufe thereafter of Mrs. Stephens9s Medicine: How¬ ever, during the forefaid time of his Continuance to fuch Medicines before hers ; he then alfo kept to the condant Ufe of the Brijlol Watery of which I have before obferved the Impropriety in the Cafe of D. Hartley : So that it appears no way ilrange to me, if he found no great Advantage thereby, and that on his changing fuch dry, chalky, conflipating Drink, for that of Mrs. Stephens's foft^ oily, fait or foapy Water \ he thus on the other hand found himfelf much better thereby. Nor is it any way material, its having been ordered by this, or t’other, fince the bed Practitioners may fometimes order improperly, or are liable to Mis¬ takes. He farther obferved, that Milk did not agree with him, rendering him coftive (whether much ufed during the Laid time I know not) but this Obfervation on Milk is more particularly con¬ firm’d, the Impropriety thereof, as hinted in the Cafe of D. Hartley. The Charge of this good Female’s Medicines (as the Laid Mr. Prefton obfer¬ ved) fuppofing him to have continued it a Twelve- month, mud amount to about 50/. which Charge he feem’d to complain of; and as he is very frugal, and greatly willing to fave Charges, fo becaufe I told him I knew theCompofition, he appeared diffidently willing to be indruded therein-, to which I infinua- ted, that I could not obferve what Advantage I or the good Woman ihould reap by acquainting him therewith s though I had at the fame time, in gene-