Observations on the functional disorders of the kidneys, which give rise to the formation of urinary calculi : with remarks on their frequency in the county of Norfolk / by William England.

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[1830]
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    altogether exempt from this malady : the incor- rectness of this belief is now sufficiently esta- blished, for urinary calculi have been discovered in the bladder of different animals, as in that of the Mare,* Rat,']' and even a calcareous concretion has been found in the centre of the yolk of a llen^s F^gg.J The urinary concretions which have been ex- tracted from the bladders of inferior animals differ from those of the human subject in con- taining no uric acid, and in consisting for the most part of carbonate and phosphate of lime cemented by animal matter. Carboiiate of mag- nesia has been also found in tlie urine of herbi- vorous animals.§ It was formerly suspected that certain calca- reous salts taken into the stomach with the water drank by the inhabitants of any district might pass through the circulating system, and become eliminated in the form of urinary con- cretions ; but the fallacy of that opinion is easily detected ; for these salts are generally present in the water used for domestic purposes in the state of carbonate or sulphate of lime, the former of which is only soluble in water saturated with * Acad. Roy. des Sciences 1700. p. 41. + Fourcroy. J Journal des Scavans 1600. p. 116. § Ann. de Chem. et Phys. xxii, 440.