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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    t JO ] In the -illnefs I have already mentioned* (experiment xii.) I repeatedly found that half a pound of urine, when kept 24 hours, de- pofited about gr. ij-t. of lithic acid, although, as was formerly obferved, my diet was not in any degree acefcent. With a view of re- moving my complaint, I took 9 j. of Do- ver’s powder. After I had fubmitted myfelf to the brifk operation of this fudorilic for 12 hours, while the fweat Hill flowed copi- oufiy, I fet apart lb. j. of urine, all I had made this day, which, after {landing 24 hours, had depofited no lithic acid at all. I again examined my urine after the effects of the fudoriflc were over, and found, that it now depofited as much lithic acid as be- fore I had taken the Dover’s powder. The above change, therefore, on the urine, I could attribute only to the increafed adlion of the fkin. I had drunk, indeed, that day more than I ufed to do, but my urine was