Open AccessVIII. On the dissolution of urinary calculi in dilute saline fluids, at the temperature of the body, by the aid of electricity
Publication year - 1853
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9223
pISSN - 0261-0523
DOI - 10.1098/rstl.1853.0008
Subject(s) - dissolution , statement (logic) , electricity , subject (documents) , saline , uric acid , chemistry , medicine , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , engineering , biochemistry , library science , electrical engineering
In the year 1842 I published a statement of some of the attempts which had been made to dissolve urinary calculi. I did not then know that MM. Prevost and Dumas had made any researches on this subject. Some time afterwards I was told that they had used electricity, but I could not obtain the reference to their original paper; as no practical use was made of their experiments, I did not search for the record of them until after my own experiments were completed. In 1845 I first devised the investigation which from circumstances I did not commence until 1848, when I made some experiments on the solution of uric acid calculi.