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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    a ftony Subftance, and, after that, have ne~ ver fince been troubled with the leaft Sym- ptom of that cruel Difeafe. And I found myfelf fo well in the Country, laft Year 1749, that, contrary to the Advice of all my Friends, I undertook, in: my. Coach, a Journey. to Chatfworth in Derbyfbire, at leaft 160 Miles frem my own Houfe in the Country, to pay a Vifit to the Duke of DEVoNSHIRE, the Hor- fes going as round a Trot as they could con- verently according to the Road; and the laft- ro, or rather 15 Miles, from Hardwick to Chatfworth, a mott rugged and rocky Way, we neither fpared ourfelves nor our Horfes ; and al- tho’ the great Shocks upon the Stones broke the — Springs of my Coach, yet they gave me not the leaft Uneafinefs ; and ] have ever fince con- tinued, with refpect to my former Diforder, as well as I ever was in my Life: But I now and then voided fome red Gravel after I had. fat a great while in the Houfe. of Commons. As I never perceived: that I voided, during ' omy Illnefs, any Fleaks of a. Stone, befides the above-mentioned, and ‘was never fearched by any Jnftrument; I can no otherwife pro- nounce it to be a Stone, unlefs by the Sym- ptoms I felt, and the Judgment. of the . Sur- gear,