On some new species of biliary and intestinal concretions / by Thomas Taylor.

  • Taylor, Thomas, 1814-1892.
Date:
[1844]
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Credit: On some new species of biliary and intestinal concretions / by Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pyrrhine, Berz.), but which is not converted into Gallengrun by solution in potash and precipitation by muriatic acid. Urate of Potash.—Two of these calculi, the discovery of which was alluded to in the preface to the first part of the Ca- talogue, have been submitted to a quantitative analysis. One contained above 10 and the other above 13 percent, of potash in combination with uric acid. Intestinal Concretions consisting of Vegetable Hairs.—Dr. Wollaston first showed that the greater number of the human intestinal concretions consisted of the small setae attached to the seed of the oat. I have discovered in the Museum several concretions from the lower animals, consisting also of the vegetable hairs from the different parts of plants. The nature of the so-called lithofellinic acid calculus, for which I shall propose the name of resino-bezoardic acid, and also of the oxalate of lime concretion, was described in a report read before the Committee in January 1841, but the statements of Professor Goebel, and other eminent foreign chemists, have compelled me carefully to re-examine these calculi. I trust soon to have an opportunity of sending you in detail the results of my investigation of this subject, but until the Catalogue is published the Committee are desirous that only the above brief notice of a few of the leading facts should appear. I remain, my dear Sir, Yours very truly, 91 Fleet Street. Thomas Taylor. [From the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science for May 1844.]