Physiological and medical researches into the causes, symptoms, and treatment of gravel / by F. Magendie ... ; translated by a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855.
Date:
1818
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    renheit, only dissolves the TTV^th of its weight; at the boiling heat it dissolves the -.j-^th, and deposits the superabun- dant quantity on cooling, in the form of small flakes. Uric acid is insoluble in alcohol; the salts which it forms with salifiable bases are soluble in any con- siderable degree, only as the bases them- selves possess that property, and as they may be in excess. Nearly all the acids are capable of decomposing them. In- deed, if an excess of acid, however weak, be added to a solution of alkaline sub- urate, the uric acid is immediately pre- cipitated.* Such are the circumstances respecting uric acid, which it is important we should bear in mind ; it will soon be evident, -that it is on those, in a great measure, that our opinions on the origin and treat- ment of gravel are founded. Remarks on Cystic Oxide. Although gravel and urinary calculi * Vide Thenard's Treatise on Chemistry, vol. iii. page 4?55.