Lithiasis anglicana, or, A philosophical enquiry into the nature and origin of the stone and gravel, in human bodies, &c. : Wherein is considered, the possibility of dissolving such animal tartar or calculous concretion. In a letter to David Hartley, author of the cases in behalf of Mrs. Stephen's medicines. To which is added, an account of a new and safe method of cure for the ischury, or total suppression of urine ... / By Henry Bracken.

  • Henry Bracken
Date:
1739
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Credit: Lithiasis anglicana, or, A philosophical enquiry into the nature and origin of the stone and gravel, in human bodies, &c. : Wherein is considered, the possibility of dissolving such animal tartar or calculous concretion. In a letter to David Hartley, author of the cases in behalf of Mrs. Stephen's medicines. To which is added, an account of a new and safe method of cure for the ischury, or total suppression of urine ... / By Henry Bracken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] From within, and altho’ feme Men have affert- ed, that nothing pafifes into the Blood that is injected by way of ClySier, becaufe, fay they, you can’t force the Valve of the Colon^ yet it is plain from Experience, that the Jefuifs-Bark will cure Intermitting Fevers when adminifter’d in C/yffers. There are alfo authentic Accounts of feveral fuperannuated People who have been nourifhed for Years by Broths, &c. taken in by the Fundament, when the Stomach had loft its digeftive Faculty, in fo much that it naufeated all Kinds of Food 5 nay, fome have gone fo far as to affert that the Aged have been kept a- live by the outward Application of ffelh Flefti to the Scrobiculus Cordis or Pit of the Stomach; and this for fome Months without one Morfel of Solid or Drop of Liquid by the Mouth : In¬ deed I cannot fay but I a little fcruple giving my Aflent to the laft Relation, but I am well fatisfied that there are, what we call vafa Inha- Untidy or abforbent Veflels all over the outfideof our Bodies, as well as all along from the Mouth downwards; and my Preceptor, viz. the very wor¬ thy and much learned Profeffor Boerhaave, lately deceas’d, I remember fo far to have refined on the Subjed, that he gave it under his Hand that the French Difeafe might be contagioufly taken in by receiving only a Piece of Money from a Perfon afflicted with it; but I fuppofe he might mean, that the Pox might be propagated this Way, when the Perfon from whom you receive the Money is affiided with the venereal Lues when in its las! Stage\ and then indeed, there are fufficient of venemous Streams or Ef¬ fluvia^ efpecially if there be Buboes in the Groin, which may fo affed the Piece of Money in a C Man’s