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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    this Author’s Book, where he fays, It appears from the Experiments of Monf Litter, in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy, for the Tear 1720, from thofe of Dr. Hales, in his Hce?naftaticks, and from what I have here publifttd, that common Water of feveral Sorts, is able to dijfolve a Variety of Stones taken from the human Body. This fhews, that an acrimonious Menftruu?n is not neceflfary for that Purpofe: and that even the mere Aqueoufnefs of Urine, may perhaps have a diffolving Efficacy, ij its concreting.y incrufiing Quality could be fir ft deftroy'd. I mu ft now, on this Remark,of the ingenious Author, oblerve to my Reader, T. hat a few Weeks, or Months at fartheft, before the publifhing his excellent Book of Cafes, in convention I then acquainted him, that Stones and Gravel were frequently palled and brought a- way (poftibly confum’d alio) by the foie Ufe of Tunbridge, Scarborough, or other Water. To which his .Anfwer was, He did not know any thing of that, though he would now, by what he relates above, feem to be of another Opinion. However, let this Gentleman’s Pradice, of which we have been fpeaking, or his Opinions, be what it lifts, ’tis certain that by following this good Woman, feveral fuch-like Patients have been in- confiderate enough, likewife to follow him; and fie has thus crept into a pretty deal of Pradice in that Way. Neither are even fome Apothecaries backward (To they find their Account therein) to be concerned in fuch-like Bufinefs. But why, in¬ deed, may it not well be allowed in them, when even the Phyficians ot the Hofpitals receive her in¬ to their Hofpitals, with her Diredions for fuch-like Patients; to their Credit be it recorded to all future Ages. But to conclude; after my Readers have perijfed the forefaid Cafes, together with the Part (by me ajlo firft publilhed) call’d Mrs. Stephens’.* Receipt, with