An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the case of the Honourable Horatio Walpole, esquire, written by himself.

  • Robert Whytt
Date:
M,DCC,LII [1752]
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Credit: An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the case of the Honourable Horatio Walpole, esquire, written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of N° [64.] made with purified Potath ané Shell-lime, for the Reafons there offered. — Quick-lime, as we have already obferved, , has been a long time looked upon ‘by the ‘Chymifts, as containing in it a powefful Re-. medy againft the Calculus. The Powder of calcined Ego-fhells; which makes a principal Part of Mrs, Stephens’s Medicines, is com- mended by Barbette as ‘of ‘incomparable Ufe: in all Suppreffions of Urine‘from the Stone or Gravel (c): And the Afhes-of burnt Snails, , another Ingredient in her Medicines, are: ‘mentioned near feventeen hundred Years fince, , by Pliny, as a.good Remedy againft the Stone: {d). But, sfrom the above Experiments, it! feems reafonable to think, that the Virtues,, whether of Stone or Shell Lime, may be! more fafely conveyed into the Blood by’ means of Lime-water than any way elfe;, for’ (c) In omnimoda urine a calculo fuppreffione, tee ove- yum calcinate ad ferup. ii. vel drach. i. affumpte ; ent re- tiqua medicamenta pracedunt. — Barbette ses lib. cap. &. (d) Eafdem (feiz. Cochleas) exemptas teffis tritafq;; tres in vini cyatho bibi, fequente die duas, tertio die unam, utt fillicidia urine emendent. TesTARUM VERO INANI~o UM CINEREM AD CALCULOS PELLENDOS, Plin.|