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Gastric Juice. This was first proposed with
Spallanzini and coroborated by many among which last is Dr Dorsy
in his inaugural Dissertation, who recommended the further trial
of it in strong terms. In the case of Mr Shaw who labored under
symptoms of calculous 10 years and for whom all the solvents had
in vain been try’d, he had an ample opportunity of trying its powers,
consequently the patient being brought to the Hospital and refusing
to submit to an operation, he order'd four ounces of the gastric
Juice taken from a hog to be injected into the bladder and repeated
dayly, this was in the month of March, after 4 or 5 times repeating
the injection which had occasioned no inconvenience to the patient,
the urine passed depositing a copious sandy sediment and after a
short time the symptoms wholy disappear'd upon discontinuing in
the month of April the urine became natural and some of
the symptoms retuned he again order’d it to be repeated and in a
short time the patient was discharged cured. The Gastric Juice of
the hog is found to be the best safest and most active. That we may not be
discourag'd I shall state two propositions, 1st It is proved that we
have solvents of calculi when tested out of the body & 2d that our
medicines may and do reach the bladder and organs unchang'd,
when they have been taken into the system by the stomach, as have
been proved by a number of experiments.