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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    other Phyfician called in, fo to bear fomepart of the Blame (if afterwards judged to be a mifmanaged Affair •,) in fhort, to take a Share with him in the Difcredit of the Patient’s Dying, and not to have that to happen under his own Hands alone. And thus it was that another Phyfician of E- minence, &c. was call’d in, at which Readinefs of the faid noted Pradtitioner’s coming (on fuch- like Occafion) I muft freely own, I was not a lit¬ tle furpriz’d, and even forry to hear he fhould be fo ready, in the lead to have been concerned with any fuch undertaking Practitioner •, in all Ap¬ pearance, more fit to join with Mrs. Stephens than with thofe of a more regular Education. Nay, it is even related by this fame worthy Family, that it was as yet further intended for the Patient, jf ill to have taken the faid Female's Medicine in cafe he fhould, a little, have recovered from the very bad and fo low State he then was in. And now it may not be amifs I acquaint my Reader, that this fame Gentleman Mr. Stiles, had for a very great number of Years been regularly attended, with long and frequent Fits of the Gout, (particularly of latter Years,) and which indeed he was never any more vifited with (at leaft no way regularly) after the having taken this faid Woman's Medicines ; which feems to me to have had the fol¬ lowing Effed, to wit, the occafioning a far great¬ er Secretion of Urine than he ufed formerly to have before taking of that Medicine ; in a word, it feems plainly to have altered the natural Courfe of the gouty Humour, ufualiy in his Blood, by the un¬ common Force and extraordinary Tendency of fuch Medicines, carrying or hurrying the faid Fluid to the Kidneys; at the fame time dilating, forcing, and opening, as they went, theVefiels thro’ which they pafs’d, particularly thofe of the urinary Kind, on which they principally operated. And