An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the case of the Honourable Horatio Walpole, esquire, written by himself.

  • Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766
Date:
M,DCC,LII [1752]
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Credit: An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the case of the Honourable Horatio Walpole, esquire, written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The? SE OU RE: of Mr. Wale POLE’S Cafe. eeinahaslla an Account of the State of his Health, with refpet? to the Stone in lis Bladder, from November 1750, to the End of April 1752. Cockpit April 28th 1752. -F TER having found myfelf, for two: Years together, perfe€ily well, and free: from all Symptoms of my former Diforder, I took no more than one third of the Soap, and Lime-water: that I had formerly ufed. In November 1750; I came out of the Coun- try, in my Coach, in the ufual travelling Pace, without the leaft Inconvenience; but. having: ventured, after I came to Town, to go now and then ina Coach upon the Stones, I began, at Times, to feel the Symptoms of my for- mer Diforder, which upon any Motion, be- fides that of going in a Chair, even by walk- ing to any Degree, increafed upon me; and driving only in my Chariot, through the Parks, to Kenfington, without going upon the Stones, I found myfelf much troubled with making,