Claim · 1739 · Joanna Stephens's Medicine for the Stone
A parliamentary committee's examination of four stone-sufferers, conducted by a panel of 22 doctors, politicians, and scientists before and after treatment, found the patients cured, and Parliament paid Stephens 5,000 pounds on that basis.
Parliament’s committee tested the recipe on four stone-sufferers, examined before and after by 22 doctors, politicians, and scientists, and judged them cured. On that one-time examination, Parliament voted Stephens the full 5,000-pound reward. No source in this bundle documents any later, independent replication of this specific four-patient examination.
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- Joanna Stephens's Cure for Bladder Stones — Jonathan Charles Goddard, Joanna Stephens's Cure for Bladder Stones, History of Urology column, Urology News (British Association of Urological Surgeons), Sep/Oct 2013 issue; archived as item 12 in the BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology.
- Joanna Stephens — "Joanna Stephens," Famous Clinicians Room, BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology, British Association of Urological Surgeons (undated, continuously maintained institutional page; cited with current access year).