/oss/taxonomy/term/1205/all en /oss/article/health-history/whats-name <p>Adolf Schlieper was a German textile manufacturer who had gained some chemical experience working in the laboratory of Justus von Liebig, one of the leading chemists of the era.  Schlieper had worked on uric acid, a white crystalline substance which had been isolated from urinary stones by Scheele almost a hundred years earlier.  Uric acid is found in small amounts in the urine of all carnivores and is the major component in the excrement of birds, scaly reptiles, caterpillars, and by some quirk of evolution, Dalmation dogs.</p> Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:45:59 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2012 at /oss