An Essay on the Chemical History and Medical Treatment of Calculous Disorders
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The knowledge of which we are already possessed relating to the composition of urinary concretions is considerable; hut there is, nevertheless, much that remains unknown, with regard to the practical, and consequently the most useful, application of our information. The author of the present treatise states, in the Introduction, that his object is to " describe and illustrate, by means of accurate engravings, the characters by which the different calculi may be distinguished ; to indicate the
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The chemical work of Alexander and Jane Marcet.
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