A disquisition of the stone and gravel, and other diseases of the bladder, kidneys, &c. : the occult causes of the stone assign'd, its principles explain'd; with the manner of its accumulation, and by what means a nucleus is first form'd, which generates the stone. Also, stated diagnostics for distinguishing such diseases from carunculae and excressences [sic] of the urethra, the effects of a venereal taint, with the most rational method of cure / By Wm. Adams [pseud].

Sampson Perry

Date:: [between 1770 and 1779?]

Credit: A disquisition of the stone and gravel, and other diseases of the bladder, kidneys, &c. : the occult causes of the stone assign'd, its principles explain'd; with the manner of its accumulation, and by what means a nucleus is first form'd, which generates the stone. Also, stated diagnostics for distinguishing such diseases from carunculae and excressences [sic] of the urethra, the effects of a venereal taint, with the most rational method of cure / By Wm. Adams [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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were conveyed into the Blood from the Food of the preceding Day, have during the Night undergone the fecond Concoc¬ tion, and confequently are fit to be diflri- buted for the Nourifhment of the different ! Parts of the Body. Another proper Time for Exercife is a little before the making of a Meal; that if there be any fuperfluous Humours in the Blood, they may, by the increafe of Perfpi- ration occafioned by the Exercife, be dif- charged before another Meal is made, from which new Humours will be con¬ veyed into the Blood, Exercife, which is in any Degree vi- •olent, ought not to be ufed foon after the making of a Meal: Becaufe it has a Ten-, dency to open the upper Mouth of the Sto¬ mach j the Confequence of which would be, the letting out Part of that Heat from the Stomach which is necellary to Con- codtion ; Or to open the lower Mouth of the Stomach ; the Confequence of which would

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