The distinct symptoms of the gravel and stone, explained to the patient; in all their stages and circumstances. With the conduct of life necessary to prevent the encrease of the complaint ... And safe and effectual medicines, easily prepared at home ... particularly the use of sparry waters ... for ... the disorder.

Date:
1759
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The distinct symptoms of the gravel and stone, explained to the patient; in all their stages and circumstances. With the conduct of life necessary to prevent the encrease of the complaint ... And safe and effectual medicines, easily prepared at home ... particularly the use of sparry waters ... for ... the disorder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    loofe, may be carried off with very little trou- ble : bat the patient fees how eafy the tran- iition is from this diforder to fmall ft ones in the kidneys 3 and he fhould be upon his guard to prevent it* The two caufes of this change are the lodgment of it on the part, and a diftempered condition of the urine : let him be always at- tentive to guard againft the firft by exercife* andj^gainft the other by a temperate life : Ex- ercife will fave him doubly, both as it pre¬ vents the lodgment of the matter, and as it tends to give health and vigor to the body in general ; nor will he have lefs benefit from a regular courfe of living : It will not only pre¬ vent that ftate of the urine which converts gravel into ftone, but will obviate alfo the encreafe of the gravel by the avoiding wine* which mod of all things promotes it. O x The air cannot be too bleak for a perfon who has this complaint 3 nor any exercife too violent: let him fix his habitation on a hill open to all quarters of the heavens, let him rife with the fun or before it, and let him hunt, {hoot, and purfue, according to their feafons, all the other manly diverfions. Let his food be plain and he may eat it heartily, two meals a day will be better than E three $