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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    ■ [ 2° ] equally fuited to live on the Land or W'iter. Far- thermore, as Plants, by the Apertures of the VefTels on their Surface, draw in the Humours, (if I may fo call them) that float about in the airy Fluids fo likewife the Bodies of Animals are known to do the fame. But we fhall yet farther find an Agreement between them, if we confider that they are both fupported by the fame kind of Nourifhment; for as Plants flourifh and increafe by the Juices they draw out of the Earthy fo Animals live, either upon Vegetables, or the Parts of other Animals, which upon Examination we fhall find have been fed with vegetable Juices *, and therefore, the Matter of both of them are the fame ; and as the Juice which Vegetables receive from the Earth, is not of their Nature, but crude at its fir it Reception, in the fame Manner, the Food which Animals take in, and the Chyle which is produced from it, does not prefently put on the Animal Nature, but retains a confiderable Time the Properties of thofe Bodies from whence it was derived: Indeed afterwards, by the fur- prizing Eifiedt of the Animal IVkchine upon them, and the Mixture of the Juices with them that are already concodled, the crude ones by De¬ grees are wonderfully changed, and in every Part of the Body they put on new Appearances; but it is abundantly fufncient to my Purpole to obferve, that the longer the Food has been taken into an Animal, the oftener it has circulated through every Part of its Body, and the greater Number of its Juices it has been mix’d and in- ■ corpora ted with; the more it conftantly recedes i from its own Nature, and approaches nearer to that of the Body into which it is received. Now*