A disquisition on medicines that dissolve the stone. In which Dr. Chittick's secret is considered and discovered. In two parts. The second part now first published, and the first considerably improved ... / [Alexander Blackrie].

  • Blackrie, Alexander, -1772.
Date:
1771
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Credit: A disquisition on medicines that dissolve the stone. In which Dr. Chittick's secret is considered and discovered. In two parts. The second part now first published, and the first considerably improved ... / [Alexander Blackrie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ready concreted, and prevent further concretions. This courfe ought, how¬ ever, to be perfifted in, not only till the patient is perfectly eaiy, but lo long as there is the lead: appearance of fabulous matter fubfiding in the urine, or even fo long as it continues to fur the chamber-pot. And as many people are naturally apt to breed gravel, this courfe ought to be renewed from time to time, as fucceeding lymptoms of its exigence indicate. 2dly, If, after a fevere nephritic fit, there is reafon to fufpedt, that a fmall calculus is tranfmitted from the kid¬ neys to the bladder, a large quantity may be given, in order to promote its folution and expulfion as foon as pof- fible.