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
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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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    geon and Apothecary that attended me, from: thefe Symptoms. But it is very remarkable, as 1 have faid be~ fore, that I never felt thefe. Symptoms while - I lay a-bed, nor to fo great a Degree when on: my Couch as upon my Legs; which: looks as if the Pofture made great Alteration; and that, methinks, could not have been the Cafe, if I] had been troubled with a fcorbutick cor- rofive Humour only. I muft leave it to the: learned in- Phyfick, to make what Conclu- fions they think fit from this true State:of my Cafe. J think I remember. in fome. of Dr: Whytt’s Obfervations, that although the Soap and Lime-water were not able to diflolve or bring away the Stone, yet they might cure its painful Symptoms,. and hinder it from vul- nerating any Part of the Bladder, by blunt- ing its fharp Points, rendering its Surface fmoother, and even covering it, in fome Meafure, with a kind of Mucilage. This may poffibly be my Cafe if [have ftill a Stone there; and therefore I continue to take the third Part of the Soap and Lime-water daily, which I ufed when I took the full Quantity. H, WALPOLE. | The