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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    As my Defign is to give an Ac¬ count of all the Fails that have come . i / to my Hands; I have been obliged to infert fome Cafes defcribed in fuch general Terms, or attended with fuch Circumftances, as to afford no great Light. But there feeros to be a Number of others clear and ex- prefs enough, to decide the princi¬ pal Points in Queftion. If farther EVIDENCE be required, we may hope to have it, when Mrs. Stephens fhall publifh her whole Method and Medicines, in the Manner She has propofed, as they will then of Courfe be tried both in private Practice and in the Hofpitals, at Home and Abroad, and the Phyfi- cians and Surgeons of all Nations receive entire Satisfaction, before any Reward be affigned. I therefore perfwade myfelf, that Mrs. Stephens will appear to you in a different Light from common Pretenders to Nojlrums; and