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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    Juft before I left the Country, Mr. Ranby made me a Vifit; and, altho’ I had felt no Pain or Symptom of my Difeafe for fome time, he advifed me not to hazard going to Town, by any Means, unlefs in a Litter ; however, ha- ving caufed a Voiture to be: made, I under- took the Journey in it, the 20th December 1748, which was regulated by the Horfes go- ing no fafter than a gentle Walk, and but twenty Miles a Day. The cold Weather, and the Tedioufnefs. of creeping fo flow, made the Coachman fome- times fall into a Trot ; which I perceived, but finding no Inconvenience, did not check his Pace. The fet Stages were obferved; but the laft two Days, and particularly the laft Day, the Coachman drove from Harlow to White- chappel, as full a Trot as the Horfes could go at any Time, and I felt not the leaft Diforder. 1 took a Chairvat White-chappel, and ail that Winter, ufed nothing elfe, and continued ex- tremely well: But, about two Months after my Arrival in’Town, I found fome {mal] Un- eafinefs in. making’ water, and, in two or three Days, I voided, with my Urine, fome- thing of a flat Shape, about the Bignefs of a Silver Penny, covered with a foft white Mu- cus, which, when it was dry, was plainly of te. a.