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Title
Early Nineteenth century chemistry and the analysis of urinary stones / E. Allen Driggers.
ISBN
9783031349737 electronic book
3031349733 electronic book
3031349725
9783031349720
Published
Cham : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-34973-7 doi
Call Number
RC916 .D75 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.622
Summary
This book tells the story of how chemists, physicians, and surgeons attempted to end the problem of urinary stones. From the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, chemists wanted to understand why the body formed urinary, pancreatic, and other bodily stones. Chemical analysis was an exciting new means of understanding these stones and researchers hoped of possibly preventing their formation entirely. Physicians and surgeons also hoped that, with improved chemical analysis, they would eventually identify substances that would reduce the size of stones, leading to their easier removal from the body. Urinary stones and other stones of the body caused the boundaries of surgery, chemistry, and medicine to blur. The problem of the stone was transformational and spurred collaboration between chemistry and medicine. Some radical physicians in America and Britain combined this nascent medical advancement with older disciplines, like humoral theory. Chemists, surgeons, and physicians in Charleston, Philadelphia, and London focused on the stones of the body. Chemical societies and museums also involved themselves in the problem of the stone. Meanwhile, institutions in Charleston, Philadelphia, and London served as repositories of specimens for testing and study as previously disparate practitioners and disciplines worked toward the comprehensive knowledge that could, perhaps, end suffering from stones. The primary audience of this book is historically-minded chemists, surgeons, physicians, and museum professionals.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2023).
Series
Perspectives on the history of chemistry.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031349720
The Pain of the Stone: Backgrounds of Urological Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century
No Stone Unturned: The Chemistry of Morbid Concretions
Race, Concretions, and Humoral Theory in the World of Benjamin Rush
Medico-Chemistry and the American South: The Life of Edward Darrell Smith
Radicalism and Humoral Chemistry: Thomas Coopers Atlantic Journeys
Partnerships Between Surgeons and Chemists
Communities, Chemistry, and Communication: Intellectual Societies in London, Philadelphia, and Charleston
The Meaning of Bodily Concretions, History, and Concluding Remarks.
