LEADER 04230nam 22006135 450 001 9910734849603321 005 20230713134124.0 010 $a3-031-34973-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-34973-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30645964 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30645964 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-34973-7 035 $a(PPN)272254290 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927578215000041 100 $a20230713d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEarly Nineteenth Century Chemistry and the Analysis of Urinary Stones$b[electronic resource] /$fby E. Allen Driggers 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (196 pages) 225 1 $aPerspectives on the History of Chemistry,$x2662-4605 311 08$aPrint version: Driggers, E. Allen Early Nineteenth Century Chemistry and the Analysis of Urinary Stones Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031349720 327 $aThe Pain of the Stone: Backgrounds of Urological Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century -- No Stone Unturned: The Chemistry of Morbid Concretions -- Race, Concretions, and Humoral Theory in the World of Benjamin Rush -- Medico-Chemistry and the American South: The Life of Edward Darrell Smith -- Radicalism and Humoral Chemistry: Thomas Cooper?s Atlantic Journeys -- Partnerships Between Surgeons and Chemists -- Communities, Chemistry, and Communication: Intellectual Societies in London, Philadelphia, and Charleston -- The Meaning of Bodily Concretions, History, and Concluding Remarks. 330 $aThis book tells the story of how chemists, physicians, and surgeons attempted to end the problem of urinary stones. From the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, chemists wanted to understand why the body formed urinary, pancreatic, and other bodily stones. Chemical analysis was an exciting new means of understanding these stones and researchers hoped of possibly preventing their formation entirely. Physicians and surgeons also hoped that, with improved chemical analysis, they would eventually identify substances that would reduce the size of stones, leading to their easier removal from the body. Urinary stones and other stones of the body caused the boundaries of surgery, chemistry, and medicine to blur. The problem of the stone was transformational and spurred collaboration between chemistry and medicine. Some radical physicians in America and Britain combined this nascent medical advancement with older disciplines, like humoral theory. Chemists, surgeons, and physicians in Charleston, Philadelphia, and London focused on the stones of the body. Chemical societies and museums also involved themselves in the problem of the stone. Meanwhile, institutions in Charleston, Philadelphia, and London served as repositories of specimens for testing and study as previously disparate practitioners and disciplines worked toward the comprehensive knowledge that could, perhaps, end suffering from stones. The primary audience of this book is historically-minded chemists, surgeons, physicians, and museum professionals. 410 0$aPerspectives on the History of Chemistry,$x2662-4605 606 $aChemistry?History 606 $aMedicine?History 606 $aScience?History 606 $aChemistry?Study and teaching 606 $aHistory of Chemistry 606 $aHistory of Medicine 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aChemistry Education 615 0$aChemistry?History. 615 0$aMedicine?History. 615 0$aScience?History. 615 0$aChemistry?Study and teaching. 615 14$aHistory of Chemistry. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aChemistry Education. 676 $a616.622 700 $aDriggers$b E. Allen$01372980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910734849603321 996 $aEarly Nineteenth Century Chemistry and the Analysis of Urinary Stones$93403888 997 $aUNINA