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The glutinous substance in the bladder or pelvis 

 of the kidney is presumably albumin or mucus. 



It is not easy to see, however, how this knowledge 

 will help us to prevent the formation of calculi, 

 and it must remain for the present a matter rather of 

 theoretical interest than of practical importance. 



REFERENCES. 

 URIC ACID AND GOUT. 



L. HILL. " Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio- 

 chemistry," Arnold & Co., London, 1906, p. 387. 

 VON NOORDEN. " Metabolism and Practical Medicine " ; 

 edited by I. Walker Hall, Heinemann, London, 1907, 

 vol. iii., p. 647. 



OXALURIA. 



A. RENDLE SHORT. Von Noorden's " Metabolism and 

 Practical Medicine," vol. i., p. 148. 



CYSTINURIA. 



GARROD. Lancet, 1908, vol. ii., p. 214. 

 T. S. HELE. Jour, of Physiol., 1909, vol. xxxix., p. 52. 



