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WOLLASTON, William Hyde (1766 – 1828)

WOLLASTON, William Hyde (1766 – 1828)

1766 – 1828

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source John Jackson · Scan from Platinum Metals Review , 2003, page 176 · Public domain

1797 CE

#4287

On gouty and urinary concretions.

Wollaston showed that, in addition to stones consisting of uric acid, renal calculi might also consist of calcium phosphate, magnesium, ammonium phosphate, and calcium oxalate, or a mixture of these.

1810 CE

#668.1

On cystic oxide, a new species of urinary calculus.

Cystine, the first amino-acid to be isolated, was prepared by Wollaston from a urinary calculus. This was also the first report of cystinuria.