Calculous disease of the urinary tract is probably as old as mankind itself. At-tempts at cure
and prevention of this painful affliction may be traced back to the very beginning of the …

The handbook on lithiasis edited by Kurt Boshamer and originally brought out in 1961 was
for more than two decades the standard work in this field for researchers and clinicians alike …

In 1968 Drs. BEC Nordin and A. Hodgkinson organized the First International Symposium on
Urolithiasis Research in Leeds, England. One hundred and five participants from continental …

HAVING commenced my medical career as an apprentice at Norwich, and as a pupil at the
Norwich Hospital, my thoughts were early directed to the subject of urinary calculus …

Observations on the formation and nature of urinary calculi can be traced back to
Hippocrates. Since many of the publications are of importance historically, and bear no …

A stone of the urinary bladder having been discovered by Prof. Elliot Smith in the grave of a
prehistoric Egyptian boy of about sixteen, computed to have lived about 7000 years ago …

Clinical and autopsy surveys point to the frequency and severity of renal lithiasis, a major
problem in surgical pathology. Crystallization and stone formation in urine involve a highly …

Physico-chemical features of lithiasis. We may approach the problem of the etiology of
urinary stone first, from the standpoint of physical chemistry. Urine holds the water insoluble …

Ir appeared to the author, when he commenced these researches three or four years ago, at
a small station in the Deccan plain of Western India, that a blank existed in medical literature …