A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders; pointing out a safe and efficacious solvent for reducing the stone, and correcting the calculous diathesis in the habit / by S. Perry.

  • Perry, S. (Sampson), 1747-1823.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A disquisition of the stone and gravel, together with strictures on the gout, when combined with those disorders; pointing out a safe and efficacious solvent for reducing the stone, and correcting the calculous diathesis in the habit / by S. Perry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    various or dissimilar figure of their elemen- tary particles ; it follows, of course, that the intervals between the particles will he of various and different capacities, and, con- sequently, any medicine or solvent, whose property is calculated to operate upon the attractive medium which holds those parti- cles together, will exert itself differently on various constructed calculi. As those stones of the earth are proved to be les3 dense and tenacious whose component par- ticles are found to be nearest to globular, so probably may it be with the stones in a hu- man body. The capacity or space between, a peck, or any other given measure, of globes or round balls, will be much greater than that between the same bulk of hcxahedral (dice), octahedral, or any other regular figures. Upon the same principle it is that the lighter and more porous wood will imbibe a greater quantity of water than that which is compact and close grained. § V1I.-THE CALCULUS COMPARED TO TARTAR. It cannot be thought amiss to give the opinion of one of our own eminent profes- sors upon the calculus, as analogous to tartar. Hales, to whom the world is so much in- debted for his two volumes of Statical Essays, and. his communications to the Philosophical Transactions, has not unaptly called the human calculus an animal tartar, and has