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G & M: "This work contains the first clear description of proteinuria, noting precipitation of urine with heat or acetic acid."
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DEKKERS, Frederik. Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum, Leiden: J. Luchtmans and C. Boutesteyn, 1695 [engraved title dated 1694], small 4°, second edition, engraved title, 20 engraved plates only (lacking the portrait, gatherings 2O and 4G browned, light marginal browning), contemporary calf (backstrip split, worn). [Krivatsy 3084; Waller 2331; Wellcome II, 443 does not call for a portrait]
