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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difunite the conflituent Parts of the Body they work up on, that it might be theeafier diffolved, by a quite dif ferent and itronger Operation $ fo that if that Bod] was kept a Year under the lixivious one, it could neve be diffolved without the Help of the other: Tho’ th< lixivious Salts are not only applyed immediately anc well diredted to the Body, which is to be diffolved, bu likewife receive continually a frelii Supply of new anc homogeneous Corpufcles of equal ftrength, and as well di redted , which cannot be faid of thofe Salts, in the humai Body, where they are fubjedl to fo many Changement or Viciffitudes, were they meet with fo many Obftacle and Oppofitions from heterogeneous Bodies, that the] muft be fuppofed entirely exhaufted when they come t the Place of their Deftination. I’ll confefs however, that, tho’ Mrs. Stephen's De codfion cannot be accounted, in Concert with her Pow der, a Diffolvent for the Stone, it might hive a ftrom diuretick Quality, not from the lixivious Salts of th Soap and Swines Creflfes, but from the Simples whicl enter into it, and which abounding with volatile Salts proper to procure a more perfedt and quicker Seperati on of the Serum, and consequently a more abundan Secretion, The Impetuofity of the Urine at that Time might force the Gravel or fmall Stones it could mee with in its Paflage, thro’ the Urinary Organs 5 but it i my Opinion, that the Operation fhould be attributec to the volatile Salts of the Simples, wherewith the wa tery Menflruum is ftrongly impregnated, and not at al, to the Ball of Soap and Swines Crefles, which I don’i fuppofe to be of any other Service on that Occafion than was the Flint Stone to the Jefuit, with which he would have perfuaded fome Country People, he could make fome exellent Soupe, if they would furnifl him with the other neceffary Ingredients* ANALYSIS

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