Excerpt from 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 Contained this sublimate; and the operationof remedies as solvents was accounted for by the action of alkaline substances upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.