A treatise on the origin and component parts of the stone in the urinary bladder : Being the substance of the Gulstonian Lectures, read at the College of Physicians in the year 1790 / by William Austin, M.D.
- Austin, William, 1754-1793.
- Date:
- MDCCXCI [1791]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the origin and component parts of the stone in the urinary bladder : Being the substance of the Gulstonian Lectures, read at the College of Physicians in the year 1790 / by William Austin, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![[7] thinks it possible, that the mucus should not have a principal part in the formation of the stone. The disposition of the mucus of the blad- der to harden both in and out of the body, may be shewn from actual observation. De Haen collected the urine of various people afflicted with the stone, and hav- ing poured off the clear urine, placed the mucus in the open air. This mucous fluid soon dried, and afforded sometimes two, sometimes three drachms of stony matter, moulded to the figure of the ves- sel. Whether the urine of every cal- culous person, without exception, exhi- bits this appearance, he does not presume to say. He further observes, that the urine of many calculous persons abounds with an earthy matter, which, in some sooner, in others later; in some, from the urine it- self upon its standing, in others, from the mucus alone preserved separately](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21176826_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
