A dissertation on the stone in the bladder : in which are consider'd, the nature of the human calculus, the doctrine of menstruums, or the dissolvent for the stone ... ; in a letter to a physician in London / by William Schaw, M.D.
- William Schaw
- Date:
- 1739
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on the stone in the bladder : in which are consider'd, the nature of the human calculus, the doctrine of menstruums, or the dissolvent for the stone ... ; in a letter to a physician in London / by William Schaw, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3» ] POSTSCRIPT. the only Objection that has been made againft the firft Edition, was the Want of Experiments to confirm, and eftablifh my Dodrine ; I beg Leave, by way of Poftfcript, to vindicate my~ felf from this Charge ; the only Fads that were neceifary to be known for the Support of my Principles, is the Ana- lyfis of the human Calculus ; and to have made any Trials to confirm what I have faid in reference to this, wou’d have been trifling, and vain ; fince all that I have afliimed are confirmed by that fair, and impartial Enquirer into Nature, Dr. Hales, in his Book of Statics : Neither was my Defign to determine any Dillblvent for the Stone in the Cavity of the Bladder. Had this been the Cafe, a Phifiological En¬ quiry wou’d have been fully as abfurd for Accomplishing the fame, as a Demonftration of Mufcular Motion wou’d be in Affifting a lame Man to walk. My only Intention was honeflly to decide, from the known Laws of the Animal Oeconomy, and the Phyfical Properties of the Human Stone in the Bladderr how far a Menftruum, without having inveftigated its Principles and Qualities, cou’d poflibly ad : It is fo far from being my View of Things, that a Diffolvent can never be found out; that on the other Hand nothing is more agreable, and con- fonant to the Animal Oeconomy, than fuch a Suppofition : C o And](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30780329_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
