A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders; pointing out a safe and efficacious solvent for reducing the stone, and correcting the calculous diathesis in the habit / by S. Perry.

  • Perry, S. (Sampson), 1747-1823.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders; pointing out a safe and efficacious solvent for reducing the stone, and correcting the calculous diathesis in the habit / by S. Perry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    411 all respects than we could expect in a person of his years, he being nearly eighty-four. My family (though unknown to you) unite in compliments with, Sir, Your obedient servant, Newport, Dec. 13,1799. Catherine Perry. CASE XXVIII. from the same town, John Roberts, Esq. (who has experienced great benefit from the Solvent, in a complicated case of gout and stone, and to which he has recourse even to this day, when occasion requires), writes as follows:— To S. Terry, Esq., Surgeon. Sir, There is a respectable lady in this town, who suffered most severely from stone and gravel for fifteen years, so that her life was often despaired of; and her bad fits returned regularly every few months. No advice, nothing she took, re- lieved her, till, by taking your Solvent ten months she was cured. During that time, she voided several stones, the largest three quarters' of an inch long, and about the size ot a small ouill. She now thinks, that, during her complaint, she must have lost the greatest part of her left kidney, from certain ap- pearance* and observations made at the time, and by a hollow or vacancy she feels in that part ever since ; and she regrets the not having acquainted you with her case and symptoms herselt. She has, however, been well now for these three years, without any return whatever. I am, Sir, Your sincere and obedient servant, Newport, hie of Wight, Dec. 11, 1803. John Roberts. CASE XXIX. James SuiPDEM, Esq., Mayor of Deal, in Kent, hearing ot the successful operation of the Solvent on his neighbour Sirl.c - j Knatchbull. Hart, (whose life had, to the great joy of h s amiable family, been prolonged many years by it), consulted me i ■ nf hia surviving son, having lost one under the ra- »» ,l,f T i;,fc,tlXrdor The medidoe ...» duly -tan*- 31 bS toV™, «d .he «t» do«s «ow »d