A short enquiry into the merit of solvents : so far as it may be necessary to compare them with the operation of lithotomy / by Jere Whitaker Newman.
- Jeremiah Newman
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A short enquiry into the merit of solvents : so far as it may be necessary to compare them with the operation of lithotomy / by Jere Whitaker Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 9 ] hibited, fhould be productive of very cjiftret fing, and in many cafes of fatal effeCts. An extraordinary effort of nature, in the com fliturion of a patient, under a courfe of a celer jbrated fol vent, Teemed to remove, and indeed, for a time, did remove every doubt of its efficacy* I truft that it will not be thought foreign to the fubieCt, to fpeak further of this cafe, as it may ferve to teach us a very neceffary leffon—* to be diffident and guarded in our opinions; and points out to us the miftakes, the belt informed of us all are liable to, in tracing caufes and their effects, and that too in an inftance where there Teemed the leafi proba¬ bility of being deceived. A patient was produced by Mrs. Stephens^ and it was agreed that he fhould be a decifive tell of the merit of her medicine. A ffone was plainly felt, and, by leveral gentlemen of emi¬ nence appointed for the purpofe, unanimous¬ ly allowed to be at that time exilting in the bladder. There medy was adminiffered to the patient; the quantities given, and the time it was per- fevered in, being left to the difpofal of the in¬ ventor* , „ j After fuch a fpace of time as was fuppofed to be fufficient for a due exhibition and ope¬ ration of the medicine, the patient was again produced, and after as judicious and accurate an examination as the circumftance Teemed to >1 1 V' ' ' f • - ’ * require,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30365028_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
