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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4 ftacle, capable to diftapoint her Defign 3 or if could perfuade me, that they are not fo mi weakened by the Fatigues of a long Journey, that tl want Strength to operate, when they come to the PI appointed 3 without mentioning thofe which have b< loft on the Road : Since the Stephenifts muft be foi to confefs, that thofe Salts are either fixed or Volatil if they be fixed. Part of them muft be evacuated w the grofs Excrements 5 fince it would be ridiculous think, that they arefo much under Mrs. Stephens's, Cc mand, as to be all incorporated in the Subftance of Chile, unlefs the Stephenifts admit likewife a Magnet Virtue in the Chile for the attraction of thofe Sa. Therefore if Part of them ( and even the greateft evacuated with the grofs Excrements, the few efca] in the Chile, are not capable to perform fo difficult Operation, as the Diftbiution of fo compaCt and har< Body, as is the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder. 1 fixed Salts, beftdes, having feldom any other Virt than the clearing les Premieres Votes, it is true, t they might be volatilifed by the natural Feat, and different Juices, which work on the Perfection of Blood 3 but even m that Volatifation, feme of th muft be evaporated, or with the infenfible Perfpirat of the Humours, or with the Sweat, force very mi weakened, or entirely annihilated 3 and thole remain f,ln ' little a Quantity, that it ern’t be fuppo iuffident, let them be ever ifoCorroffives, to difto ae Stone, and if they were, they cannot have Time hemielves to Action, before they might is direct tl waftKTl away by the continual flowing of the Uri They may oe, his true, reinplaced by others, 1 more otners a? e Subject to the fame Inconvenient and weie they even, to make each of them fome : p^effion on the Stone, its entire diftbiution coil’d not expected before the Diftbiution of the Patient himf efpecially it the Stone was oi any confiderable Bign 1 will likewfie 1 uppofe their Co heft on- to the Stone, ; tnatrney are in a Quantity fufficient to operate 3 h: they any Activity of themlelves ? And if not 3 h are they to be put into Motion, or directed to A6th

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