Tonsils, kidneys and gall: where and why your body makes stones

Tonsils, kidneys and gall: where and why your body makes stones

Video_Stock _Production/ShutterstockThe human body, it turns out, is surprisingly good at making stone. Give it enough time and the right conditions and it will go about crystallising minerals, hardening secretions and, in rare cases, turning tragedy into rock. Gallstones. Kidney stones. Tonsil stones. Salivary stones. And, in one of the strangest and saddest corners of medical history, stone babies. In the second episode of The Conversation’s S…