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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    Experiment XVI. About 8 months after I recovered from the above mentioned illnefs, I fubmitted myfelf to the following experiment, when in good health. On an evening I took gr. ij. of Dover’s powder. Next morning I took gr. vj. more ; about half an hour after this, the fweat broke out, and continued as I took a little warm drink, till 7 o’clock in the even- ing. between 3 and 4 in the afternoon, during the fweat, 1 fet apart a portion of urine, and between 6 and 7, another, while the diaphorefis ftill continued. From morn- . mg till this time, I had drunk lb. ij. of * k and v.ratcr ; my urine being only lb. j. Each of thefe quantities of urine I examin- ® 3 ed. I