The kidneys and urine / by J.J. Berzelius ; translated from the German by M.H. Boyè and F. Leaming.

Date:
1843
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The kidneys and urine / by J.J. Berzelius ; translated from the German by M.H. Boyè and F. Leaming. 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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    stances found in it, and also the easiest and most approved modes of detecting them. The detailed accounts of all the ingredients will enable the physician, with only such general knowledge of chemistry as is given in a course of medical instruction, to sepa- rate them from the urine and study them. No difficulty what- ever will be found in the application of the tests as prescribed in the part treating particularly of the examination of the urine. It is true there may be some difficulty in its quantitative analysis, which requires some apparatus and a knowledge of the first rudiments of analytical chemistry, but the present state of science is such that no one can hope to study Physiology or Pa- thology with success who has not first obtained this knowledge ; those who have it we are confident will find the prescriptions sufficiently detailed to enable them to understand them thoroughly and to perform therp.