Lithic [adjective]

The deposits in which solvents are appropriate are termed respectively Lithic and Phosphatic.

Excessive indulgence in animal food or in wine may cause an over-secretion of Lithic acid.

A suppression of the secretion of the skin causes a lithic deposit in some cases, as in a common "cold."

Acids dissolve a phosphatic, and Alkalies or their carbonates a lithic deposit, in the body, as well as out of it.

For the solvent passes out along with each successive quantity of the Lithic or Phosphatic matter that is formed and excreted.

Similarly, in Oxaluria, oxalic acid is found there; in Lithiasis, lithic acid in excess.

Hence we are able to trace its conversion into lithic forms until finally its origin disappears in its absorption in later styles.

Alkalies are thus of use in a tendency to lithic acid deposit.

The moon was high enough to light the entire lithic arena as well as the small temple at its edge.

It has been used as a solvent for lithic calculi, and in gout, &c.—Dose, 15 to 30 gr.