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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    [ ^8 ] As to Hops, or high Hopp’d-Liquors being prejudicial in Cafes of the Stone, Gravel and Gout, i take them in general to be fo, from their being flronger or fmaller, or more or lefs depurated 3 that is. Hops are not in themfelves pernicious, fo far as I have obferved, notwith- ftanding there was an Adi of Parliament made formerly againft the pernicious Ufe of this Kentijh Commodity ; but I have feen many Acts of Par¬ liament with a fpecious Preamble, wherein the Health of the Subjedt has been feemingly at Heart, yet, if the Revenue buffered by it, the Commonality might eat either Hops or Hay whether they pieafed: But to return. It is agreed upon by the mod eminent Au¬ thors of Experimental Philofophy, that Humane Urine, when highly alcaliz’d, will diffolve or reforb its own Salts, Tartar, &c. and if Mrs. Stephens’s Medicines which are now upon Tryal for difiolving the Stone, contain, as I have been informed from the Learned and Ingenious Dr. Stephen Hales, Author of the Vegetable and Hasmaftatic Experiments, I fay, if thefe Medi¬ cines (as fhe calls them) contain a good Quanti¬ ty of Lime, flacken’d or fallen in the Air, it may, by a long continued Ufe, as it is directed, fe> alter the Nature and State of the Juices, that the Urine may become highly Alcaliz’d, and thereby its Salts, as well as fmall Pieces of Gravel or tartarous Matter, may be reforbed and diffolved by it; and perhaps likewife the fbfter Kind of Calcule may (in feme Meafere) yield to its Efficacies; but I fear the harder Sort will not be wrought upon by either Mrs. Stephens’s Medicines, or even any other pretended diffolvent whatfoever, without deftroying the Conftitution,