248 Mr, Home's Observations , &c. 
of uric acid, but the phosphates were deposited more rapidly 
than before. 
A gentleman, in whose urine the uric acid appears in a 
solid form, immediately after it is voided, has the same 
appearance in the urine, even when nine drachms of soda dis- 
solved in water, impregnated with carbonic acid, are taken in 
twenty-four hours ; so that in this instance the alkali does not 
even counteract the formation of uric acid. 
