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The philosophers' stone

history of science
Caroline Curtis
15 March 2024
6 mins

Bladder and kidney stones, and their causes and cure, were subjects of great interest to early Royal Society Fellows, as Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme recipient Caroline Curtis explains.

Noah Moxham
20 August 2013
5 mins

The early Royal Society appears to have been curiously fascinated with bladder-stones; there are numerous reports of unusually large calculi, as they were also known, being shown in meetings.