Urine, urinary deposits, and calculi : and on the treatment of urinary diseases / by Lionel S. Beale.

  • Beale, Lionel S. (Lionel Smith), 1828-1906.
Date:
MDCCCLXIV [1864]
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Credit: Urine, urinary deposits, and calculi : and on the treatment of urinary diseases / by Lionel S. Beale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION. The Lectures which are now published were first given in November, 1852, at a laboratory adjoining King’s College Hos- pital (27, Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields), which I had arranged for the study of those branches of chemistry and microscopical inquiry which have a special bearing on medicine. Several courses of lectures and demonstrations were given during the seven suc- ceeding years; hut of late, increased work in other departments has prevented me from devoting so much of my time to this branch of teaching. The course on urine included oral lectures and practical demonstrations, in which every pupil performed the experiments with his own hands, according to the directions given in the Tables, which will be found at page 411 of the present work. The lectures were first published in the British Medical Jour- nal, and are now printed in a collected form, with several additions. I have endeavoured to restrict myself, as far as possible, to those parts of the subject which are of practical importance in investi- gating the nature of a case. It must he borne in mind that the Lectures were given to practitioners, most of whom had far larger experience in practice than myself. Little advantage, therefore, could have resulted under these circumstances from discussing special questions connected with the treatment of disease, and almost the whole time was devoted to the practical examination of