Galen regarded gout as an unnatural accumulation of humours in a part, and the chalk-stones as the concretions of these, and he attributed the disease to over-indulgence and luxury.
To see in all mountains nothing but similar heaps of earth; in all rocks, nothing but similar concretions of solid matter; in all trees, nothing but similar accumulations of leaves, is no sign of high feeling or extended thought.
The following are among the concretions found in the various parts: (1) Coralline calculi.
In this case the obstruction may be near the orifice of the teat or farther up, and the solid mass is not movable up and down with the same freedom as are concretions and calculi.
It must not be here alleged that certain concretions have been found in mines posterior to these having been worked by man; consequently, that thoseconcretions have been formed by nothing but the infiltration of water.
These are certain concretions of calcedony, and also of iron-ore, which are thought to have such resemblance to stalactical concretions as, by some superficial observers, to be reckoned of the same kind.
I appeal to the analogy which, in this treatise, he has formed, between the stalactical concretions upon the surface of the earth, and the mineral concretions of siliceous substance.
These concretions are well known to naturalists, and form part of the beautiful specimens which are preserved in the cabinets of collectors, and which the German mineralists have termed Drusen.
These are concretions found in the gall-bladder or bile duct, and vary from the size of a pea to that of a hen's egg.
To prevent the formation of these concretionstake the Golden Medical Discovery, together with alkaline drinks made with carbonate of soda.
These concretions are chiefly obtained from a red monkey (a species of Semnopithecus), which seems to be very abundant in the interior districts of Borneo.
In my note on tabasheer I referred to the reported occurrence of mineral concretions in the wood of various tropical dicotyledonous trees.
In concluding these brief notes, I may remark that the wide-spread idea of the medicinal virtue of these concretions would lead us to suppose that there is some foundation for their reputation.
They are not unfrequently covered with barnacles, showing that they were not formed as concretions in the stratum where they now lie buried, but had been previously consolidated.
The shale, like the Lower Ludlow, often contains elliptical concretions of impure earthy limestone.
As a general thing, the tentacles are less numerous in the Tubularian Medusae than in those arising from other Hydroids; they want also the singular limestone concretions found at the base of the tentacles in the Campanularian Medusae.
Flints occur almost always in nodules or tubercular concretions of various and very irregular forms.
The name of certain concretions found in the stomachs of animals, to which many fanciful virtues were formerly ascribed.
Hitherto it has been found only at Huelgoet, near Poullaouen, in Brittany, covering with its tears or small concretionsthe ores of white lead and galena which compose the veins of that lead mine.
It is destined for the admission of a workman to rectify any derangement in the apparatus of rotation, or to detach hard concretions of salt from the bottom.
It consists of a small sac containing a fluid and one or more solid concretions or otocysts.
A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretionsin the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.
In pathology, a term popularly applied to calculous matter formed in the kidneys, and passing off in the urine; and sometimes to distinct calculi or concretions in the bladder itself.
The concretions most commonly found are those formed in the kidneys or bladder, and termed urinary calculi, and those formed in the gall-bladder or biliary ducts, which are called biliary calculi.
The potassa compound (silicate of potassium) has been recommended as a remedy for gouty concretions by Mr Ure.
Oölite is similar in structure, but the concretions are as small as the roe of a fish.
The Heart and Blood Vessels were sound, and no other polypous Concretions were observed within their Cavities, but such as we find in most dead Bodies; which seem to be formed of the coagulable Lymph in articulo mortis.
Glisson tells us, that Cattle are subject to bilious Concretions in Winter, which are dissolved and evacuated in the Spring, when they begin to move much about, and to eat the new Grass, which purges them.
The angular concretions to the sides of the pot, formed as the urine cools, is microcosmic salt.
All these concretions contain phosphoric acid, mucus, and calcareous earth in different proportions; and are probably so far analogous in respect to their component parts as well as their mode of formation.
These new concretions superinduced on the nucleus, which descended from the kidney, as described in Class I.
This appearance usually indicates a good soil, which is either of a red or very dark colour, and in which small portions of trap-rock, but more frequently concretions of indurated marl, are found.
The river water was brackish; and in the bank was a bed of calcareous concretions which some of the men supposed to be bones.
To this depth the soil generally consists of clay in which calcareous concretions and selenite occur abundantly; but at some parts the clay, charged with iron, forms a soft kind of rock in the bed or banks of the river.
It consisted of a very hard conglomerate composed of irregularconcretions of milk-white quartz, in a ferruginous basis, with apparently compact felspar weathering white.
The "eagle stones" of older writers were generallyconcretions of this kind, containing some substance, like sand, which rattled when the hollow nodule was shaken.
Blue clay appears in the lowest parts of the basin, and forms the level parts of the plain, with concretions of marl in thin layers.
Calcareous tuff or grit may be observed in various localities, and calcareous concretions abound in the blue clay of almost all the extensive plains on both sides of the mountains.
We found on other parts of this open ground large blocks composed of irregular concretions of ironstone, covered with a thin coating of compact brown haematite.
The only inclosures which are arranged in layers consist of irregularly shaped concretions of clay.
These concretions are so disposed in the loess that their longer axes are vertical, and they were evidently separated from the mass and not deposited with it.
Why may not these concretions have been deposited as nodules?
There exist in many rocksconcretions which differ from the mass of the rocks.
The middle portion is composed of nodules or concretions of limestone imbedded in a paste of red sand and shale.
This conveys the impression that such solvent action is exerted in the body, that is, that such concretions in the gallbladder may be dissolved and evacuated by the use of Colalin.
As gall-stones are chiefly composed of cholesterin, experiments were made to determine whether Colalin would dissolve these concretions outside of the body.
They are a "coarse brown sand-stone, containing irregular concretions of oxide of iron," and numerous molluscs of marine origin.
The pathological conditions referred to are ulcerated or gangrened appendix, perforations, fecal concretions in the appendix, etc.
South of Steam Point is a small bay bounded by a deposit of yellow clay, full of the remarkable concretions already referred to.
Some of the larger concretions consist of a mere spherical shell, filled with slightly consolidated ashes.
The sphaerulites and the little nodules of obsidian in these rocks so closely resemble, in general form and structure, concretions in sedimentary deposits, that one is at once tempted to attribute to them an analogous origin.
The surrounding ashes do not contain any carbonate of lime; hence theconcretions have probably been formed, as is so often the case, by the aggregation of this substance.
Concretions in sedimentary deposits, it is known, are due to the separation from the surrounding mass of the whole or part of some mineral substance, and its aggregation round certain points of attraction.
The concretions contain a small proportion of carbonate of lime: a fragment placed under the blowpipe decrepitates, then whitens and fuses into a blebby enamel, but does not become caustic.
The concretions containing lime, which I have described at Ascension, as formed in a bed of ashes, present some degree of resemblance to this substance, but they have not a resinous fracture.
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