196 



h 



/ 



:T}1 



^ 



afFedions : and in the years 



concurrent teftimonies of different 



th 



7^3 



f -^ 



1764 



qiured 



the 

 arkable 



celebrity not only for its efficacy in gravelly complaints, but in almoft 



" y organs are liable, as ulcers of the 



/* 



every other to which the 



kidneys and bladder, cyftirrhoea, diabetes, & 



then thoudit to be fo fully eftablilhed, that a Spanifli 



d its 



g 



ity was 

 made it 



his boail 



man 



> 



whom thefe 



imp 



difcoveries of the 



efFeds of this plant ought firft to be referred, was his countryman 



He was hov/ever fuperfeded in this claim by the phyficians at Mont 



pel 



who had b 



the habit of prefcribing Uva Urfi in thefe 



ffively 



fes for many years before.'' But the cafes publifiied fu 



cce 



by De Haen tended more to raife the medical character of Uva Urfi 

 over Europe than all the other books profefledly written on the 



virtues of th 



tioners in 



th 



a.nt : and ei 

 untry have 



ged by his fuccefs, many pradi 



duced to 



y Its 



ffed 



and 



though the ufe of this plant has been frequently obferved to mitigate 

 the pains in calculous cafes, yet in no inftances do we find that it has 

 produced that effential or permanent reli 

 been experienced by the German phyficia 

 From the experiments of Dr. Alexande 



f, which is faid to h 



- k 



th 



of Uva Urfi 



feem to poffefs very little diuretic power, and thofe made by Murra) 

 ihow that they have no material effed 

 efficacy they may therefore have in r 



1 



up 



th 



g 

 difpofed to afcribe to their aftringency 



th 



ary 



the 



calculous difeafes 



d 



m 



onfi 



of this opinion we. may cite the obfervation of Dr. Cullen, who, in 



D 



^ 



Mu 



Quer. See the French verfion of his book, viz. Difertation fur la maladle nephr'itlque, 

 rjon veritable fpecifique k Raifm d'ours, p. 84. ^ Vide Barbelrac/?r?//. Med, p. 163. 

 " The trials of the Uva Urfi made in this countrv. havp hv no means anfwered 



benefit 



fic 



Lewis 



M. M.p 683. And in a cafe of Incontinence of urine, Dr. Fotherffill obferves, « The 

 Uva Urfi. fo much Pvfnll.^ .f 1... :„ ..^^.^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^.j^^^^^ ^^{^^1^,, feemed but to 



Inqu'ir, vol. lii, p. 144. But in the preface to 

 Urfi had been frequently prefcribed fuccefsfuHy 



aggravate the fymptoms." Med. Obf. ^ 



by many of the Members of the Society of Phyficlam In L 



1 



See his Exp. EJays., p 



54 



The calculi were macerated in a Urong decoaion of the Uva Urfi 



Fide I 



his 



