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William Hyde Wollaston

Chemist; described 'cystic oxide' (cystine) in 1810

Dates: 1766-1828 (source: Wikipedia: William Hyde Wollaston (listed in research/02 §11) )
Chapters: V. What the Water Knew

What the film says

Described a yellowish, glistening stone in 1810 and named its substance cystic oxide, after the bladder.

Watch 21:42 in the film V. What the Water Knew

On the timeline

1797: William Hyde Wollaston identifies sodium urate in gouty concretions. probable timeline
5 July 1810: Wollaston's paper on 'cystic oxide', a new kind of urinary calculus, is read; it appears in the Philosophical Transactions. timeline

Sources

Sources

Wollaston 1810, on cystic oxide, a new species of urinary calculus (Phil Trans, OCR) Primary
EAU History Office: Diagnosis in the laboratory Museum or society