Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium, accompanied with urine strongly charged with animal matter / by William MacIntyre.

  • MacIntyr, William.
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium, accompanied with urine strongly charged with animal matter / by William MacIntyre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seen, was very humble; but the ordinary means of exami¬ nation at the command of the practical physician unversed in the nice processes of analytical chemistry, were sufficient to bring me acquainted with physical properties and chemical reaction, which, independently of their apparent direct re¬ lation to the disease which destroyed the patient, seemed to me deserving of a detailed account j and I shall be content if I have succeeded in pointing out to future observers, gifted with the requisite qualifications for conducting researches of a higher order, certain definite and distinctive characters by which a peculiar and hitherto unrecorded pathological con¬ dition of the urine may be recognised and identified.