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first 3 weeks, was' nothing but spoon-meats and light pudding, afterward a boiled 

 chicken, &c. and in a fortnight after the operation, asses-milk night and morning, 

 from which he receivtd great benefit, being very thin, and having a cough, which 

 had afflicted him many years, and being of a hectic disposition. 



At the end of 3 weeks, the wound was above half healed, the urine began to 

 come chiefly through the penis, daily lessening through the wound; and when 

 that was near cicatrized, it all came the natural way, and had lost its heat and 

 sharpness : then his mouth blistered within, from the saltness of the saliva. For 

 which, during the whole course of the cure, he drank plentifiilly of cooling 

 emulsions with gum Arabic, &c. In 5 weeks he was perfectly cured, and so 

 continued without any return of his distemper. 



On the Effects of the Lixivium Saponis, taken inwardly by a Man aged 73 Years, 

 who had the Stone, and in whose Bladder, after his Decease, were found 214 

 Stones. By William Cheselden, Esq. N° 478, p. 36. 



May 21, 1739, Laurence Welch, aged 75, bom in Denmark, but at that 

 time a pensioner in the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, after having had symptoms of 

 the stone for 8 years, but never knovvni to void any in all that time, began to 

 take 10 drops of lixiv. sapon. in -i- pint of water, 3 times a day; and on the 23d 

 in the evening voided several small scales of stone, with little or no pain. 



On the 24th the dose was increased to 1 5 drops ; but, making him vei-y sick, 

 it was reduced on the 25th to 10. He complained of great pain in his back this 

 day, and at night passed a whole stone, the size of an orange-kernel, and several 

 little bits. 



On the 26th he complained of great soreness in the urethra when he made 

 water; for which a little oil was injected, and he took 8 oz. of a solution of gum 

 Arabic inwardly, omitting this day the lixivium. Being very easy on the 27 th, 

 he took the lixivium as before: his urine was thick and plentiful, but had no 

 gravel or sand in it. 



On the 28 th he took the lixivium, and about 4 in the afternoon voided several 

 bits of small stone, of different shape and texture, some as large as tares ; which 

 making the urethra very sore, on the 29th he omitted the lixivium, and took a 

 solution of the gum, and had the oil injected as before. Being searched this 

 afternoon, Mr. C. perceived a great quantity of stone in his bladder. On the 

 30th he took the lixivium again, was very sick, but easy. The 3 1 st, taking the 

 lixivium after great pain in his back, belly, and penis, he passed a large piece of 

 stone, with several smaller bits. 



June 1, he took nothing, was very easy, and made a great quantity of thick 

 turbid urine. He took the lixivium again the next day, was very easy, and con- 

 tinued so all the 3d; but on the 4th was in great pain all day and night. On the 



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