An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the case of the Honourable Horatio Walpole, esquire, written by himself.

  • Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766
Date:
M,DCC,LII [1752]
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Credit: An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the case of the Honourable Horatio Walpole, esquire, written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RS Ras Raabe Gaatapa A ie THE ) Virtuss of LIME-WATER IN THE CURE. of «the STONE: N the Year 1739, the Parliament of Great, Britain, in confequence of a Petition pre- fented to the Houfe of Commons by Mrs. Foanna Stephens, generoufly ordered her a Re- ward of L. 5000 Sterling, for publifhing her Medicines againft the Stone, in cafe, upon due Trial, their Utility, Efficacy, and diffolving Power, fhould be attefted by the Truftees na- med for that Purpofe. But altho’ the Virtue of thefe Medicines is fuch as may juttify the. Certificate given of them ; yet they are fo bulky and naufeous, that fome People cannot take’ them, and many ufe them with the utmoft Re- luctance; nay, (as the learned Dr. Furin has well obferved), fo great is the Refolution re- quired to go through a Courfe of thefe Medi-. A cines,