Urinary Colloids in the Prevention of Kidney-Stone Formation

17 April 1952

journal article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 246 (16) , 604-607
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195204172461602

Abstract

THE nature and process of kidney-stone formation has puzzled the medical profession for a long time. In the sixteenth century Paracelsus expressed the opinion that a material obtained from food constituted the basic cementing material essential to stone formation. In 1856 Meckel¹ advanced the theory that the organic gluing or cementing matrix was a product of an inflammatory condition of the urinary tract. Fourcroy and Vauquelin² considered the cementing substance to be albumin and gelatin. Ebstein,³ by dissection and analysis of stones, concluded that urinary calculi contain a framework of albuminous substances. He believed that this organic material resulted from . . .

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