XVII. On gouty and urinary concretions

Abstract

If in any case a chemical knowledge of the effects of diseases will assist us in the cure of them, in none does it seem more likely to be of service than in the removal of the several concretions that are formed in various parts of the body. Of these one species from the bladder has been thoroughly examined by Scheele, who found it to consist almost entirely of a peculiar concrete acid, which, since his time, has received the name of lithic. In the following paper I purpose giving an account of the analysis of gouty concretions, and of four new urinary calculi.