A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    + s “< | 1144 ON THE EFFICACY OF THE the kidneys, ureters, and bladder are clogged a calculus is actually formed, and by re- maining fixed in the urinary paflages, ex- cites the moft direful.agonies, the virtues of the Carl{bad waters are particularly fervice-: matters to the urinary ducts, and wafhing them away, and alfo in abating the fpaf- modic ftrictures of the paflages, and thus procuring a free difcharge for the calculous concretions.” att ‘¢ ‘They moreover,” as he fays, ‘* pre- vent the generation or increafe of calculi, by their diluting qualities, and by their mo- derating the faline acrimony of the hu- ; mours, tam preclara Carolinarum eft facultas, ut copiofius ad renales tubos delataz, intus contentas fordes et mate- rias alienas eliquando et fluxiles reddendo ejiciant, f{paf- ticis autem ftriCturis ureterum refiftendo, eofdemque> ampliando et laxando humoris ope obherefcentem in eorum ‘alveo lapidem protrudant et elidant. Quin ipfam-autem generationem calculi ejufque incremen-_ tum antevertunt ;.dum humores diluunt et falfedinem et acrimoniam eorum contemperant, quo minus mu- cofz et falfze materiz coire et concrementum lapidofum exoriri poffit. Accedit et illud quod thermales hz aqua fi urina cum ardore et dolore ftillet, exoptatifimam fpondeant opem. Hoffman de Thermis Carolinis, § XIV.