Remarks on the stone and gravel in the kidneys, liver and bladder : with an account of the discovery of a solvent remedy, now used with universal success, and commonly known as Dr. Lee's Gravel Specific / by Samuel H.P. Lee.

  • Lee, Samuel H. P. (Samuel Holden Parsons), 1772-1863.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: Remarks on the stone and gravel in the kidneys, liver and bladder : with an account of the discovery of a solvent remedy, now used with universal success, and commonly known as Dr. Lee's Gravel Specific / by Samuel H.P. Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    The case of Hemiy Luce, Esq., as described in his letter addressed to the same person in Boston, who wrote to him as well as Mr. Pierce for information. Kew York [Howard's Hotel], Jan. 22d, 1S41. To Miss F. H., Boston. I received your favor of the 20th inst., asking my opinion of Dr. Lee'a medicine for the cure of stoue in the bladder ; not being a medical man, I can only give you an opinion founded on experience in my own rase. Having suffered so severely from the effects of instruments and Injections into my bladder, which nearly destroyed me, and being at this time so providentially recovered, and in a fair prospect of a radical cure, under the medicine and attendance of Dr. Lee, that it gives me pleasure to give you all the aid in my power. It would be supererogatory in me to say, whether I had a stone in my bladder or not, when even doctors differ in opinion on that point, by a Bounding process with instruments—but I do know that after I came under the care of Dr. Lee, and had taken his solvent a few days, I began to discharge quantities of gravel, small stone, and pulverized dust, mixed with muddy mucus, ropy, stringy animal matter, very offensive, accompanied sometimes with blood—and that I continued to amend very rapidly, my pains in the kidneys and urethra abating—the inflammation of the bladder [occasioned, I have no doubt, by the twenty odd ope- rations of sounding and injection] subsiding—my hectic fever, which had been consuming my flesh for weeks, was reduced from 128 strokes of pulse to 70 in a minute ; my stomach, from loathing and rejecting everything, began to retain light food, and now I can eat and digest the food of a healthy person ; my urine improved in color and substance, free and without any difficulty ; my appetite good (too good) ; the tender sore- ness, everywhere gone ; in short I not only feel like a new man, but all the inmates of the hotel, since my return to the parlor, are remarking on my wonderful recovery thus far, and I feel that my perfect restoration to health is near at hand. It is about four years since I was first attacked with calculi, and 1 have had only temporary relief from the waters of Saratoga and warm climates; but my complaint this fall', after taking a great ccld, completely prostrated me. I came to New York, and put myself under a physician the 28th of Nov., who attended me with his instruments and injections into the bladder, until I could endure it no longer. He then told me I could not be cured, and could not expect to live but a short time. At this critical moment, viz : the 23d of Decem- ber, I was advised to send for Dr. Lee. His skill and Lithontriptic have restored me already to better health than I have enjoyed for five or six years. I am in daily use of his solvent and dandelion tea, and shall continue them a month or two longer to divert my system from any cal- culous tendency, and I feel confident that my complaint is conquered. I sincerely hope that your suffering parent will commence immediately and give the medicine a fair trial, and persevere in it to a final cure, which I trust is in store for her afflicted family. Very respectfully, your most obedient servant. Henry Luce.