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Paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine' by Henry Bence Jones

Reference number: PT/35/9

Date: 1848

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Subject: Medicine / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine.—Paper III. Part I. On the variations of the acidity of the urine in the state of health. Part II. On the simultaneous variations of the amount of uric acid, and the acidity of the urine in the state of health. Part III. On the variations of the sulphates in the state of health and on the influence of sulphuric acid, sulphur and sulphates, on the amount of sulphates in the urine'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 November 1848. Read 25 January 1849.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/35/9
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1848
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37 pages
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Henry Bence Jones, Paper, 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine' by Henry Bence Jones, 1848, PT/35/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_35_9/paper-contributions-to-the-chemistry-of-the-urine-by-henry-bence-jones, accessed on 26 April 2025

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