Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Exper. XII. His urine, feven hours after he had pafTed the mephitic injection, was filtrated, and lime-water was dropped - gradually into it, through a filtrating pa- per. A cloud, which was thick, and floated on the top, was by degrees formed. On agitation, it was difFufed; and, the whole liquor was full of flocculi, became turbid, and continued fo. The fame trial being made with common urine, it be- came flightly turbid, and foon cleared it- felf. The urine, therefore, appears, from this experiment, to be, in fome degree, impregnated with mephitic air. From the preceding trials, I was natu- rally led to doubt of the original lithon- triptic powers of this fluid; fo got the following experiment to be performed by Mr. Kerr, Apothecary to the Royal Infir- mary, who was then in the daily practice of making the mephitic water. Exper. XIII. He infufed the two cal- culi, mentioned before, in two glaffes of mephitic water, which was renewed every day. After being kept three days in it, the calculi were dried, for fifteen hours, before the fire. The larger, which was an I i entire