Early Nineteenth Century Chemistry and the Analysis of Urinary Stones

E. Allen Driggers is an associate professor of the history of science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States of America.  He teaches courses in the history of science, British History, food studies, engineering studies, and the history of South Asia.  He has several publications in early nineteenth century medicine and science, from the history of botany, engineering, dinosaurs, and urinary stones. He is working on his next book project about the history of medicine in British India.  He is married to fellow academic Dr. Laura Elizabeth Smith, whom he sometimes collaborates with on articles regarding science and race.  They have two dogs, one cat, and one child in the turn of the nineteenth century town of Sparta, Tennessee (1809).

• The Pain of the Stone: Backgrounds of Urological Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.- No Stone Unturned: The Chemistry of Morbid Concretions.- Race, Concretions, and Humoral Theory in the World of Benjamin Rush.- Medico-Chemistry and the American South: The Life of Edward Darrell Smith.- Radicalism and Humoral Chemistry: Thomas Cooper’s Atlantic Journeys.- Partnerships Between Surgeons and Chemists.- Communities, Chemistry, and Communication: Intellectual Societies in London, Philadelphia, and Charleston.- The Meaning of Bodily Concretions, History, and Concluding Remarks.