Search Results for "bladder stones"
The philosophers' stone
history of scienceBladder 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.
'Permit me to lay before you the bladder of Mr Gardiner'
history of scienceThe 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.