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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    upon the 13th of November, although he walked fix Miles pretty quick, he had none of it, nor has had ever fince ; and on the 6th. of the fame Month (having ufed it little more than fix Weeks) he paffed the firft Stone. Nor - ‘{s it at all unreafonable to fuppofe that Lime- «water may have a greater Effect in diflolving the Stone than Seap, fince we find it pofleffes a greater diffolving Virtue out of the Bladder. See Experiments below, Sect. 3. compared with (No 70. and the Table near the End of this Effay. That the Lime-water, from its Aftringency and ftrengthening Quality, fhould have a more fudden Effet in curing the Incontinency of U- xine, than the Pain and Blood that, upon Motion, generally accompanied it, is .eafily accounted for; fince, as the two laft proceed- ed chiefly from the rough Sides of the Stone grating upon, and tearing the Blood-veffels on © the internal Coat of the Bladder, this muft in part have ‘continued to happen.till the Points were worn off its Surface; and accordingly we find the firft Stone was pretty fmooth when he voided it. But, befides this, after the Stone once begins to diffolve, its Surface is ei- ther covered with .a whitifh AdZucus, or foft rotten Scales or Layers, which are thrown off one after another. Vid. Exper. below. 5. It