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?]

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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$i ftp r*ie 'nterftiftes or diffufed throughout the whole. | u ftance of the Egg Shells, agsinft the watery Men- 3 Jirmm, to which the Fire is forced at fall to leave the “Lee, as it appears by the Slaking of the Matter. \ ?VQ 0 that this long Digeftion of two ) Months, muft infallibly fruftrate the Intention of the « Calcination, which is to open and unfold the Princi- , pies, tiil then confounded together in the Eee-Shells, *j /l ^ _ | y ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Action con- I fils chiefly m their fahne Corpufcles, thofe Corpufcles i* are oy the Calcination, freed from the earthly Capfules, I wh.Ich ,d]dkee? them lns^ive 5 their Points fharpened ]arid Jndued with more Vivacity. If after this firft Ope- 1 ration, the Egg-Shells were only to undergo two or 1 £hrce L°tJOns> like the Diaphoretick of Antimony y to J'free it rrom the igneous Particles it might contain; and : which might render it a Cauftick 3 I fhould be perhaps i! more apt to beleive, that there is iome corroffive Vir- |tue,^ in fuch Preparation of the Egg-bhells, for by thofe ILoJons, the Texture of the feline Corpufcles cannot be |broken, 01 their Points or Angles blunted 5 but a long fermentation, muft not only oilorder, but deftroy the Cimerry and Arrangement of the laiine Corpufcles, and 101 k.e them to return i'nto their former Principles, great deal weaker than they were before the Operatic jon, as it appears by the Powder being precipitated .At laft to the bocrom of the Pan, which kept on the Sun ace ot the watery Menftruunt, as long as the Texture of the faline Corpufcles, cou’d refift the Diffolution of its Parts - Therefore ’tis my Opinion, that there is not ithe leaft Virtue left, in that Powder found at the bot¬ tom of the Pan, as being destitute or di veiled of all fa- line Corpufcles, Analysis oj the Preparation of the SNAILS. ^ aere is nothing in the whole Creation, from the moil mfignificant Reptile, to the MafterpiSce of he Divine Jrchitett, which has not fome Virtue or tv conducive to the Prefervation or Reffauration G 2 of$

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