A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon.

  • Dennis De Coetlogon
Date:
[1739?]
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Credit: A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The different Colours of the ST ONE. rHE different Arrangement, Pofition, or Order of the conftituent Parts of the Stone caufes their ferent Colours 5 but efpecially the Clofenefs of the exture of their outward Coat j for the more the Cor- tfcles which enter in the Com pofition, or rather form at Coat, are uniform in their Angles, they are the }fer joined together, provided the too great Imperu- ity of the igneous Particles, proceeding from a vehem¬ ent Heat, don’t disorder their Cimetry, by working at Texture with too much Precipitation: The clofer ey are joined together, the more compact is their irface 3 the more compadl is their Face, the greater the Reftedtion of the Light, and the lighter is the alour of the Stone j for if on the contrary, the Stones e fpongious, as it happens, when their conftituent irts have been affembled together, tumultuoufly and ith too great a Precipitation, by the Impetuolity of e igneous Particles, the Rays of the Light, lodge emfelves in the Intervals loft between thofe conftitu- it karts, which giving but an imperfedl and obliquous eflexion, make the Stone appear of a darker Colour, r their are no real Colours but what proceed from the efledtion of the Light, and its a grofs Error to believe .at each Body has its identical One ? c the Number of the STONES in the Kidneys and Bladder* rH E Intemperance of the Organs wherein the Stones are formed, render their Number greater lefs* for ifthe Reins, for Example, are affedted with iVxternatural and immoderate Heat, from thence flow tttimually and with Impetuolity a vaft Number of ig- aus Corpufcles, which feize the vifcous, earthy and glutinous
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