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

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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$< [ 21 ] Now amongfl the Humours of Animals there is one that is vafliy more fubtil than all the reft, ! and this is called the Exhaling Spirit, and feems to contain that fingular Quality which is pecu¬ liar to every particulars^/, and which di-< flinguiihes it from any other; and this we learn evidently in the Diverfion of Hunting, for we lhall fee the Hounds follow the Hare^ altho’ a Fox may here and there have crofs’d the Train of her Scent, (as ’tis call’d) •, and I have farther ob¬ served, that after a Deer has been blown, that is, after the Hounds have given him a Brufh, and made him breathe quick, they would flick particularly to the fame Deer, altho’ he fhould run through twenty Herds; and the fame thing may be obferv’d in Dogs following their Ma¬ ilers through common Ways, where there has been Numbers of Perfons palling and repafling, <md at lafl finding them out, which is furpriz- ing; but fh-ews how much we differ one from <■ another in this Exhaling Spirit, and no Doubt but we do the fame in regard to the refl of the Humours of our Bodies ; and this fufiiciently ihews us, why fome Bodies may, and yet others may not, breed the ftony Concretion we call ani¬ mal Tartar \ I mean, that according as we part with this Exhaling Spirit, or fweat more or lefs, we fhall be more or lefs fubjeft to breed the Stone ; and altho’ the Ancients imagined that the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder increafed moil in the Winter Seafon, becaufe, fay they. Perfo¬ ration is lefs in the Winter than Summer, fo the Matter that fhould go off by the Pores mufl of confequence adhere to, and increafe the Bulk of the Stone. But thefe Adepts might with equal Reafon affert, that fiich Perfpiration lejfened mufl increafe$

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