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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    _(») ral, told him, that it was Soap and a teftaceousPow*• ^r. However, Mankind efteem thofe Things moft which are kept as Secrets, and are the mod bid from them ; thus chufing to pay the moft liberally for being deceived, or kept in the dark ; very rare¬ ly valuing plain or open Truths ; and confequent- ly they muft e’en be left to go on in their own way. VII. Mr. Pain, Butler to the late Serjeant Bains, I was next inform’d of, asbeing quite well, and en¬ tirely cured, under the Care of Mrs. Stephens; he inform’d me he had taken her Bolus’s and Powders for fome very conftderable time, that is for many Months, to little or no Purpofe : after which fhe judged proper inftead of the Soap-Bolus’s to give him the Bottle of SoapJVater daily, which he no fooner the firft time tafted, than that he cry’d out to her, This is Soap: on which fhe, laughing, replied. What if it is? at the fame time owning it to he fo i yet then alio pretended and told him. That was not the principal Thing therein. He, after fome Continuance herewith, found himfelf confi- derably better, efpecially after one very fevere Fit he had therewith •, at which time he voided a fome what foftifh Suhftance, fuppofed (if I miftake not) to be a foftned Stone. In a word, he continued at this about a Year and a Quarter, before he judged himfelf fufficiently well to leave it off, al¬ together. During which time fhe advifed him not to drink red Wine, nor to eat Cheefe, Oyfters, or toafted Bread. The firft of which was, no doubt, very proper to abftain from, and poffibly the fe- cond was as well let alone •, but what there was much material or injurious in the laft, to wit, the toafted Bread, is what I cannot well obferve, unlefs that it was dryer than when untoafted. Thus then