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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    ANALYSIS of the Decoction. TP ^ fa^s ^rs* S'fyphws) four Ounces and a A . a^ °* c^e beft AiicaacSo p, beat it in a Mor- L teVfirh a large Spoonful of Swines Creffes, burnt to L a bEcknefs, and as much t oney as will make the I whole of the Confidence of Pafte 5 let this be formed JfC into a Ball. r. * Take this Ball and Green Camomile Flowers, fweet I Fennel, Parfley ^ and Burdock L eaveo, of each one I gjunce : ^ien t^iere are not Greens, take the fame . of Roots, cut the Herbs or Roots, Bice the i Fall and boil them in two Quarts of foft Water, half I an Hour, then drain it off and mix it with i oney. f Sure this is not a Medicine to repair the Tone of the jstomach, to ftrengthen its Membranes or to. help the pigeftion P Quite contrary : Since the Kerbs or Roots fcxcepted, the reft is known by the frequent Ruthis it allies, to be a Bane to the digelfive Faculty, and by irritating the Texture of the Fibres, of the nervous Membiane, capable to throve it into Convulfions, and |Ven break the Continuity of its Texture. I Bul ( fays Mrs. Stephen or he from whom fhe ha? leceived that Secret ) nothing that enters in that De¬ tection, is adminiftred in Suhflance, fince the Alicant toap, for Example, is made life of only to have the Vbtgruum impregnated with its lixivious Salts, which miting themlelvcs with the Chile in the Stomach, are hereby conveyed to the Blood, which they accorm >any in its Circulation, till it comes to the fecretory j/eiiels of the Kidnies, were they take their leave I nd following the Lymph a In the Secretion, meet with be gone in the Urinary Organs, on which they fix nem(elves in order for its Diflolution. All that would !|e very well and I would not pretend to fufLeci in 1 e ea^t ^ie Operation of Mrs, Stephens Medicine, if le ^ccAila warrant me that thofe lixivious Salts, are bilged to follow the Road preferibed to them by lCr s cr c,ou!d it without meeting with any Ob-