An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the cases of the Right Hon. Horace Walpole, Esquire; the Reverend Dr. Newcome, Canon of Windsor, &c.

  • Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766
Date:
1755
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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 cases of the Right Hon. Horace Walpole, Esquire; the Reverend Dr. Newcome, Canon of Windsor, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pee B Geol ON THE Virtues of LIME-WATER CURE of th STONE, N the Year 1739, the Parliament of Great I Britain, in confequence of a Petition pre- fented to the Houfe of Commons by Mrs. Foanna Stephens, generoufly ordered her a Re- ward of L. 5000 Sterling, for publifhing her Medicines againft the Stone, in cafe, upon due Trial, their Utility, Efficacy, and diffol- ving Power, fhould be attefted by the Truftees named for that purpofe. But altho’ the Virtue of thefe Medicines is fuch as may juftify the Certificate given of them ; yet they are fo bulky and naufeous, that fome People cannot take - them, and many ufe them with the utmoft Reluctance ; nay, (as the learned Dr. Furin has well obferved), fo great is the Refolution required to go thro” a Courfe of thefe Medi- ; rei CiNeS, -