An account of the remedy for the stone lately published in England, according to an act of Parliament, assigning a reward of 5000 [pounds] to the discoverer / Extracted from the Examinations of this remedy [Mrs. Stephen's Medicines for stone], given into the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. Morand, and M. Geoffroy; appointed, as members of that Academy, to examine the same.

  • Gem, Richard, 1716-1800
Date:
1741
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Credit: An account of the remedy for the stone lately published in England, according to an act of Parliament, assigning a reward of 5000 [pounds] to the discoverer / Extracted from the Examinations of this remedy [Mrs. Stephen's Medicines for stone], given into the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. Morand, and M. Geoffroy; appointed, as members of that Academy, to examine the same. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M. Geoffroy^ Account, &c. Shall here confider Mrs. 1 m Stephens's Remedy for the ]||j Stone, under the following Heads, viz. i. Its effects up¬ on being taken. 2. Its chemical Ana- lyfis. 3. The changes it makes in the Urine. 4. The A&ion of this changed Urine upon the Stone, out of the Bladder. And, 5. The Manner of preparing the Medicines. V/4 SECT. I *The Effects of the Remedy. x. A Gentleman, fifty-five YearsCafeofa x \ old, having ft rang fymptoms a Stone in the Bladder, but refuting to be fearched, refolved, upon the increafe of his Pain, to ufe the Medicines; and began