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A Full Examination, and Impartial Account of All Relating to Mrs. Stephens's Cures, and Medicine for the Stone and Gravel

period print · 1740
type:period print
year:1740
citation:[Denis de Coetlogon, attributed], A Full Examination, and Impartial Account of All Relating to Mrs. Stephens's Cures, and Medicine for the Stone and Gravel: In Two Parts. I. Containing Nine of the Principal Cases, First Publish'd by D. Hartley, Now Here Stated in a Very Different Manner... The Second Part Contains Mrs. Stephens's Receipt, with the Proper Observations and Explanations Thereon (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740).
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SUMMARY
Wellcome Collection catalog record (work cbpa3vg6) confirmed by direct fetch: Public Domain Mark; date 1740; publisher T. Cooper, London; author attributed in the catalog record to Denis de Coetlogon (the attribution is a cataloger note in brackets, not a name printed on the pamphlet itself). Digitized as Internet Archive item b30508460 with Wellcome Library funding; the title page itself (directly inspected) reads 'A FULL EXAMINATION, AND Impartial Account Of all relating to Mrs. STEPHENS's Cures, and Medicine FOR THE STONE and GRAVEL. In Two PARTS. I. Containing Nine of the principal CASES, first Publish'd by D. HARTLEY, now here stated in a very different Manner... It is herein also observed, That the Author of the present Papers did discover and make known the said Medicine of Mrs. Stephens's long before she made it publick. THE SECOND PART Contains Mrs. Stephens's RECEIPT, with the proper Observations and Explanations thereon... LONDON: Printed for T. Cooper, in Paternoster-Row. MDCCXL. [Price One Shilling, or Six-pence each.]' Illustrates the case (media asset: this pamphlet's title page) and documents that David Hartley's nine case reports were re-examined, and disputed, within a year of their first publication, including a rival claim to have discovered the medicine before Stephens made it public.
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