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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    [ ] take away the glutinous quality of the urine, which gives it the power to unite the parti¬ cles of gravel into a ftone ; and a doubly ftridt regard to thefe is neceflary in this cafe, for where the concretion of a ftone is once be¬ gun, lefs good is to be expected. 'Tis hard to fay in what cafes relief of this kind has been certainly obtained ; for I believe when a ftone is too large to be voided, and is to be felt by the catheter, the attempt to diffolve it by all methods hitherto known is vain : Per¬ haps a remedy may hereafter be found, but if ever it fhould it will be a fimple medicine, as bark for agues, not a mixture of many. So far as a knowledge of the fad can be obtained in thefe cafes, I think I have found the following eafy method fuccefsful. A patient having voided with great difficulty a ftone, as large as poflibly could pafs; and this being found on examination exadly of the nature and ftrudure of thofe moft com¬ mon in the bladder, his friends were alarmed for him with the terror of a larger ftone j for it is evident this was encreafing coat on coat, and if it had lain a very little longer, could not have been voided. He took every day twelve millepedes alive, fwaltowed them as they rolled themfelves up, and I