A short account of the disease of the stone in the human body. Also of the method of cure / [Henry Boësnier De La Touche].

  • Boësnier de la Touche, Henry
Date:
1765
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Credit: A short account of the disease of the stone in the human body. Also of the method of cure / [Henry Boësnier De La Touche]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlenian, but that cafe has not been efteemed by the faculty fufficient to encourage future at¬ tempts, and it has been prudently omitted ever fence. As the cafe is however very extraordinary, I will give it here as it is found in the PhV. Tranf, N. 223. related by Mr, Charles Bernard. “ Mr, Hobfon^ who was conful for the Eng^ UJh at Venice^ having been long afHided with the ftone in the kidney, was at length attacked with a fit of that duration and violence, that it reduced him almoft to delperation, and finding no relief from any means that had been ufed, and being under the greateft extremity of pain imaginable, he addreued himfelf to Dominicus de Mnrchettiy a famed and experienced phyficiaii at Padufiy imploring pf him that he would be pleafed to cut the ftone out of his kidney, being fixt in his belief that no other method remained capable of relieving him j adding, that he was not infenfible pf the danger, but that death itfelf was infinitely more eligible than a life in that mifery, under which he had long and did then groan, Marchetti feemed very defirous to have declined it, reprefenting not pnly the extreme ha- yard, but as he feared the impradicablenefs of the pperatipn}, that it was what he had never at h Z