A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon.

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.
Date:
[1739?]
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Credit: A new treatise on the stone : containing the causes both remote and immediate. The indications, counter-indications, and the prognostick. With an exact analysis of the different preparations of Mrs. Stephen's medicines, to prove that it cannot be a specific for the stone / By the chevalier de Coetlogon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t thereby, we might be more capable to relieve ef- :ua!iy the Patient in his excruciating Tortures 3 for efs we know perfectly well the different Symptoms ich accompany the Gravel or Stone in their diife- x Paroxifms, it is impoffible we fhould form a juft )gnoftick, and apply the neceffary Remedies. The Paroxifm of the Stone, happens, or at the anges of the Seafon of the Year, or after fome vio- t Exercile, or fome Excels of Drinking or Eating, of fome immoderate Fleafure, dnee thole Accidents, changing the Pofition of the Stone, caufes an ex¬ ordinary or unnatural Tendon in the Parts, and letimes an Excoriation where it is the moll: adherent, was the Stone to keep always the lame Situation, let dc ever of lb large aVolume, provided it leaves Room the Evacuation of Urine, it caufes little or no Pain, 1 the Patient Icarcely knowTs when he is afflifled irewith, but by feeling a conliderable Weight in the rt. By the fudden Rarefaflion of the Air in the Spring s Atoms of the Atmofphere being more intimate in dr Approaches and more coadnuated together^ give greater Strength to the Column perpendicular to each rpulcle, of the watry Menftruum, which being for- 1, by their globuious Figure, to give Way to Com- >ffion, and by a more precipitate Rotation, in fupply- ; continually each others Place, cauling a greater A- :ation in the Urine, may thereby give fome Secuufes the Stones, and caufes a Paroxifm, which might alio occalioned by the Air alone, without the watry enftruum, by its extraordinary Compreffion on the >dy of the Stone itfelf. That the fudden Agitation of the Urine, might give ne ftrong Secoufes to the Stone, is evident, by what : fee in the fmalleft Brook, whole Waters when calm i tranquil, are not capable to move the Imalleff: >nes ; but when agitated by the Wind, or otherwile, 'ry all before them. In the Winter, when the Air does not enjoy that ijmperature of the other Seafons, but on the contrary, E is