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On the nature and treatment of stomach and urinary diseases: being an enquiry into the connexion of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the kidney and bladder, with indigestion / [William Prout].

  • Prout, William, 1785-1850.
Date:
1840
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of stomach and urinary diseases: being an enquiry into the connexion of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the kidney and bladder, with indigestion / [William Prout]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. OUTLINE OF THE GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF ASSIMILATION; AND OF THE SECRETION OF THE BILE AND OF THE URINE. Srction I. Of the ultimate composition and structure of organised bodies ; and of their general physical characters as dependent on their composition. 1. The objects of nature are divided into the inorganised and the organised. Under the head of inorganised bodies are included all elementary principles and their mineral com- pounds. Under organised substances are included all sub- stances forming a living constituent of vegetables and animals. With the general nature of common chemical or mineral ele- ments and their compounds, we take it for granted the reader is acquainted. We confine our attention, therefore, solely to organised products. 2. Organised bodies include vegetables and animals ; and in their well-marked forms, no two things can perhaps be con- ceived to offer a stronger contrast than these two great divi- b