A full examination ... of ... Mrs. Stephens's cures, and medicine for the stone and gravel : In two parts I. Containing nine of the principal cases, first published by D. Hartley, now here stated in a very different manner ... The second part contains Mrs. Stephens's receipt, with ... observations ... thereon / [By Denis de Coetlogon].

Date:
1740
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Credit: A full examination ... of ... Mrs. Stephens's cures, and medicine for the stone and gravel : In two parts I. Containing nine of the principal cases, first published by D. Hartley, now here stated in a very different manner ... The second part contains Mrs. Stephens's receipt, with ... observations ... thereon / [By Denis de Coetlogon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is to be taken notice of, that there was here alfo an Alteration made in regard to his Aliment (as ob- ferv’d before *,) he now drunk only a little white Wine wither Bottle of Water each Day, more than ufual, for twelve Months or longer. But even fince this time, tho’ pretty brijLk and well when I faw him, yet he told me, he ftili continued to void the fame glary Size as before fpoken of: Nay, he even likewife farther complain’d of Increafe of Pain, and Diforder of a- nother Ailment: He faid, ’tis true, he was afflic¬ ted with it before, though not fo much, which I know not that I am at io much Liberty to name, fince fome incline not to difcover the like Ailment, tho’I may, I think, fay, that a Weaknels or Bearing- down of fome Parts, (fuppofing it fo) I fhall nor, however, over pofidvefy affirm that to be increafed by the great Ule of this favoracious Medicine. But even at bell, is there any great Miracle in all this r to find a Peffon relieved of fuch a Malady after a continued Ufe of Medicines for fifteen Months ? Yes, fay they, but we have long tried a Phyfician: Yes, fay I, but longer hill when they have tried both. N. B. Pie has had another Fit lately. viip Mr. Bolton from Newe a file ^ one likewife quoted in D. Hartley’s Cafes, a Patient alfo of Mrs. Ste¬ phens*^ who I believe did continue her Medicines in the like regular Manner as is mention’d in his Cafe; after ren Weeks taking it, he thought of lea¬ ving it off (as there fpoke of) till encouraged by me to go on with it for two or three Weeks longer, (he being come for that Purpofe ;) after which he accordingly begun to find himfelf more eafy, as there faid ; though before this, fhe fo over-loaded and over-dos’d him with her Medicines, as to puc him to inexpreffable and infufferable Pain: When on his great Complaint thereof to me, I advifed