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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    eat xiii. and relate chiefly to—the Nature of Quick-lme and-its Water ;—- the Strengths and. fpecifick Gravities of different Lime-waters ;—the particu- lar Aétion of Lime-water in diffolving the Stone,—and to the Cure of the Stone, not only by fwallowing Soap and Lime-water, but by injecting the The Appendix contains the Cafeof the Honourable HoratioW avpote Efq; written by himfelf, and given me, at his Defire, by the Honourable Mr. Baron Edlin, of brs Majefty’s Court of Exchequer in Scotland, with Li- berty to make it publick. LI might have added many other Ei- frories of the good Effects of Lime- water 1 the Stone, bad I not been un- willing to fwell this Effay to too great a Bulk: And, indeed, I thought this the lefs needful, as the EOE of this - Remedy .
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