Paper, 'On the disintegration of urinary calculi by the lateral disruptive force of the electrical discharge' by George [Frederick Samuel] Robinson

Description

Robinson describes an experiment in which two parallel wires are separated at their extremities and connected with an electrical machine or Leyden jar. Bringing their ends in contact with the surface of a calculus, and then allowing a series of moderate discharges to take place between the extremities of the wires, Robinson describes how a disintegrating effect would be produced upon urinary calculi of the same nature as that witnessed in glass and quartz. He describes further experiments, designed to simulate the application of electrical discharge to urinary calculi. Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Medicine / Electricity

Received 13 June 1854. Read 15 June 1854. Communicated by Dr [William] Sharpey.

This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the disintegration of urinary calculi by the lateral disruptive force of the electrical discharge'.

Reference number

AP/37/17

Earliest possible date

1854

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

6 pages

Format

Manuscript