An essay on the virtues of lime-water in the cure of the stone / By Robert Whytt. With an appendix, containing the cases of the Right Hon. Horace Walpole, Esquire; the Reverend Dr. Newcome, Canon of Windsor, &c.

  • Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766
Date:
1755
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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 cases of the Right Hon. Horace Walpole, Esquire; the Reverend Dr. Newcome, Canon of Windsor, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ais xill. and relate chiefly te—the Nature of Quick-lime and its Water ;—the Strength and fpecifick Gravities of different Lime-waters ;—the particu- lar Action of Lime-water in diffolving - the Stone,--and tothe Cure of the Stone, — not only by fwallowing Soap and Lime= water, but by injecting the latter in= to the Bladder. | The Appendix contains the Cafe of the Right Honourable Horace WaAt- POLE E{g; written by bimfelf, and. given me, at bis Defire, by the Ho- nourable Mr. Baron Edlin, of drs Majefty’s Court of Exchequer in Scot land, with liberty to make it publick. I might bave added many other Hi- frories of the good Effects of Lime- water in.the Stone, had I not been un- willing to. fwell this Effay to too great — a Bulk: And, indeed, I thought this - the lef needful, as the Ujefulnefs of this Aerat ;