Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    preceding patients, appeared to be aggra- vated by it. But I am ftill unwilling to pafs a fevere fentence on this remedy, as the experi- ments are but few; as lbme of the above patients were young, which makes the cafe more unfavourable; as in thefe patients the calculi might have been of a nature lefs fuited to be acted upon, from their compolition or hardnefs; as in Dr. Jurin's cafe, and fome few others, calculi appear to have been dilfolved by it • and, as I found, from the following experiments, that the urine of thofe tak- ing this medicine was ftrongly impregnated with the cauftic alkali. It has been objected to this, and to other alkaline lithontriptics, that they mutt be neutralized by the acid, which they will find in the primae viae, or be much weakened by a conjunction with the oily particles, which they rnurl meet there, or in the fluids. To this it may be an- fwered, that an acid is not always to be found in the primae viae, as it is a morbid, and not a natural product, of thefe parts; and that oily particles may weaken the cauftic