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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    Stone began to dilTolve and come away, and fo has continued to do ever fince, at Times, in rotten Bits, which break upon the leaft Touch. So that though I cannot fay the Cure is as yet compleat, becaufe ihe has ftill fome Pains remaining, though much abated, yet certainly the Medicines bid very fair for it, and have done as much as can be re¬ quired of them in the Time. Saffron-Walden j Effex,Feb. i, R* B. Cler* S738-9. XXL Mrs. Gardiner^ Compton-Street? St. Ann's. ABOUT eleven Years ago, I found myfelf feized with violent Pains in my Back and about my Bladder, with Stoppage of Urine and bloody Water, upon the leaft Motion. At Micha¬ elmas 1734, was feized with a violent Fit, which lafted me till near Eafter following, and reduced I me fo low as made all my Friends defpair of my Recovery, and give me over for Dead *, not having been able to bear turning in my Bed for feveral Weeks, without exquifite Pain. I then took Mrs. Stephens9s Medicines *, they gave me much Pain at firft, but in fix Days Time brought away a Stone,, as big as a large Filbert, befides a great Quantity of Matter every Day, that when dried feemed to be a Kind of Sand. In left than a Month, I was able to go abroad without any Inconvenience, and fome time after left off the Medicines. About a Twelve- month after was feized with another Fit; had re- courfe to Mrs. Stephens’s Medicines, and after tak¬ ing them three or four Days, brought away three large Pieces of Stgne3 each Day one, which feemed E % ta