A view of the present evidence for and against Mrs. Stephens's medicines, as a solvent for the stone. Containing 155 cases. With some experiments and observations ... / [David Hartley].

  • Hartley, David, 1705-1757.
Date:
1739
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Credit: A view of the present evidence for and against Mrs. Stephens's medicines, as a solvent for the stone. Containing 155 cases. With some experiments and observations ... / [David Hartley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion in my medicated Alkaline Urine. Whether this be effected by the Stone’s imbibing the Urine, fwelling and burfling, or home other Means, is left for future Enquiry. XV. The Reverend Mr. Arnet, Vicar of Wake¬ field, Yorldhire, A S been Afflidted with a Pain between the fmall of his Back and Right Side, for many Years. Once voided a flat, brownifh Stone al- moft an Inch long: For the la A: nine or ten Years, his Complaints have been increafed, efpecially up¬ on Motion, and his Urine has been Coffee-coloured , or Bloody after it. He took Mrs. Stephens’s Me¬ dicines for two or three Months laft Summer, and found confiderable Benefit by them as to his Com¬ plaints. However, as he ftill apprehends that he has a Stone in the Right Kidney, from his Pains in the Back and Right Thigh, he re- folves to begin again, having omitted them only through Bufinefs abroad, want of Medicines, or the Gout. XVI. Mr. Berrey, of Eaft-Horfley, near Ripley, Surry. HAS had the Gravel in the Kidneys for fome Time, and voided much Gravel with many Stones, fome half an Inch long: Sometimes has a Stoppage at the Neck of the Bladder, for a little Time,