AN ESSAY OF THE CHEMICAL HISTORY AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF CALCULOUS DISORDERS
Book Details + Condition: For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London). Second Edition, 1819. Tall 8vo hardcover with one-half leather over marbled boards. 194 pages with Index. Illustrated with 10 medical and chemical copper engravings, each preceded by a leaf with a description of the plate en verso. Plates VI-IX are hand-colored, each separating plate from description leaf. Alexander Marcet's original 1817 work is a compendium on the use of various chemical elements and treatments used to treat medical calculous disorders under the Urology field of medicine, becoming one of the most useful books on Urology at the time. He was the first to remark that the pain caused by a renal calculus is often due to its passage down a ureter, where it may grow in the kidney without causing acute suffering. Marcet also discovered a new type of urinary calculus, consisting of xanthic oxide, and investigated Alcaptonuria, a condition which the urine turns black.
Firm binding - unsurprisingly, boards have been reattached in the past; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with deterioration to leather; some foxing to plates; interior is clean and free of markings.
