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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![£ 2-6 ] tnbuted to the effedts of thefe medicines, %*> lie had not experienced it until their ufe.~Oa infpedting the body after death, the organiza¬ tion and fubftance of the kidnies were found almoft deftroyed ; a ftone of conftderable fize was found in the bladder; the furface of which plainly evinced, that it had not been in any degree abraded, diffolved, or broken down *, though it might have been expected, from the vaft quantities of drugs he fwallowed, his long perfeverance, and the boafted efficacy of them. Inftead of afting as litbontriptics, and de- Itroying the ftone, in this melancholy in- ftance, they were generally fuppofed to have brought on a deftrudtion of the fyftem. ™ Could Mr. Garrick have been perfuaded to fubmit to the operation before he took the folvents, the world might ft ill have been bleff- ed with his prefence, and his friends might not, for many years, have felt the irreparable lofs of fo entertaining, fo inftrudtive, and fo amiable a man. As to folvents, ™a long courfe of them, from their evident effects, cannot be fa¬ vourable to the operation of lithotomy, the fuc- cefs of which will be proportionably leffened as the general health is impaired. - A languor and debility, with a difpofttion to feveriffi complaints, accompanied with a lofs](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30365028_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
