1814.] -with Sulphur and Oxygen, S6> 



Results, 



Oxide of bismuth com- C Metal 89-863 .... 100-00 



posed of £ Oxygen .... 10-137 •••• 11*28 



100-000 



oil.* e w * CBase 66-353 ....100-00 



Sulphate of bismuth . . £ Add 33 . 647 t _ SQ . n 



1 00-000 



C1U cu . tl C Metal 81-619 100*00 



oulpnuret of bismuth .. -2 c , , ic.ooi .-n.co 



1 £bulphur .... 18-381 .... 22*52 



100-000 



Article VIII. 



On a Netv Solvent for all Sorts of Urinary Concretions. 

 By Mr. C. R. Goring. 



Chemistry has been long looked up to, and as yet in vain, for 

 a remedy for that excruciating disease, a stone in the bladder. It 

 has heen proposed to ascertain the composition of the calculus, and 

 then inject its liquid solvent ; but this method has failed of success 

 in the application, or rather cannot be applied at all, for a thousand 

 reasons, which must be evident at first sight. It appears to me, 

 however, that there is an agent fully capable of destroying all sorts 

 of calculi, and at the same time applicable without risk to the 

 patient. It is that wonderful energy — galvanic electricity. This 

 power, it would appear, is capable of being accumulated to any 

 intensity by keeping up a proper proportion between the number 

 and size of the plates composing the battery, and its enormous 

 power of decomposition is well known ; it is much more than suffi- 

 cient to subvert any union subsisting between the constituents of a 

 concretion which have all been ascertained to consist either of acid, 

 anti-acid, or generally both, with some animal matter. Now it 

 matters not what particular acids, &c. enter into the constitution 

 of a concretion, as galvanism is equally a match for every one, and 

 overpowers the Btrongest attraction equally with the weakest; it will 

 infallibly drag the anti-acid to the; negative, and the acid to the 

 positive wire. The way then I think galvanism might be applied is 

 this : Lei a puncture be made in the bladder with a common 

 trochai . - u ual (this 1 believe is an operation attended with no 

 ri^ls, and no great inconvenience). Introducing any thing into the 

 bladder through the urethra is a source of very great irritation to 

 the patient, and had better be avoided for litis lesser evil. Let the 



