An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson.

Date:
1792
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Credit: An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The following experiment I made on my- felf when in good health. Living partly on animal and partly on ve- getable food, and at the fame time taking a certain degree of exercife ; morning, mid- day, and evening, I fet apart a portion of urine in clean velfels. After thefe had Hood 48 hours, I found in each of them a fandy depofition, which, after Sheele, I fhall in the fequel call the lithic acid • the feveral depofitions, taken together, weighed gr. i. ft. On the following day, living in the fame manner with refpedt to diet and exercife, I fet apart, as formerly, portions of urine, -which, after Handing the fame length of time, had alfo depofited gr. i. ft. of lithic acid ; on the evening of this day I eat a le- mon.. Next morning I fet apart a portion of urine, eating at this time a fecond le- mon ; about dinner-time I eat a third, and fet