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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    [ ] increafe the Bulk of the Brain, Lungs, See. No, the true Reafon of the Stone’s Increafe, or rather the Caufe of its appearing in Laminae or Coats, is this, viz. when we perfpire moll, (as we cer¬ tainly do in the Summer Seafon) then our Urine is moft rancid and urinous *, and from the Ac¬ count I have given before, it muft in fuch Cafe be more replete with !Tartarous Particles, and confequently add to the Bulk of the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder. For if what is perfpired off by the Pores in the Skin, was to pafs off by the Kidneys, as is the natural Way when Peripira- tion is obftru&ed, I fay, in this Cafe, the Urine would be more dilute, and the Particles of Tar¬ tar be kept farther afunder, fo that they would not (fo foon) come within the Sphere of one ano- thers A&ivity and cohere, but on the contrary, be wafhed along the Current. Neither is there near fo much animal Tartar form’d in the Urine in Winter for the aforefaid Reafons. This may be made manifefl to any one, who will take the Trouble of keeping his Urine a- while; for let him but for fome Time pifs in the fame Pot without wafhing it, and for the like Time afterwards make Water into a Pot that has about a Wine Glafs full of Spring or Rain Water put into it firft, and every Time the Pot is half full or thereabouts to empty it; I fay, if this be done and a little of the Rain Water put into the Pot every Time after it is emptied, without cleaning, it will be found, that more fabulous Matter may be feraped off by far, from that Pot which had no Spring Witer put into it, than from that which contain’d pure Urine from Time to Time. What