The Composition of the Urine: In Health and Disease, and Under the Action of RemediesJ. Churchill, 1860 - 404 páginas |
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The Composition of the Urine: In Health and Disease, and Under the Action of ... Edmund Alexander Parkes Pré-visualização indisponível - 2023 |
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Página 269 - Sutherland arrives, in his paper above referred to, are the following : — 1. A plus quantity of phosphates exists in the urine in the paroxysms of acute mania. 2. A minus quantity exists in the stage of exhaustion in mania, in acute dementia, and in the third stage of paralysis of the insane. 3. The plus and minus quantities of phosphates in the urine correspond with the quantitative analysis of the brain and of the blood ; for a plus quantity of phosphorus is found in the brain, and a slight excess...
Página 167 - This would certainly indicate that it is not easily destroyed in the body ; it may be in a state of very stable union, and possibly, by prolonging the analyses, more might be recovered than was done by Briquet and Herapath. Dr. Ranke2 has made the important observation, that 20 grains of disulphate of quinine lessen very greatly (one half) the excretion (formation ?) of uric acid. The experiments were made on three persons, and the results were uniform ; the effect continued for about two days after...
Página 79 - All the three great factors of metamorphosis, viz., nitrogenous food, oxygen, and movements, are thus increased; and the amount of metamorphosis must also go on augmenting, up to a certain point, as the bulk of the tissues increases. So far the prize-fighter may be said to follow the dictates of common sense ; but now how does he act with regard to alcohol, and wine, and the substances usually supposed to give strength, and to limit the necessity for food ? Why he almost discards their use ; he takes...
Página 187 - ... in which the albumen did not disappear during the time the patient was under observation ; this time being generally very long, and always many days.
Página 236 - The increase lasts during the cold and hot stages, and then sinks, sometimes gradually, sometimes suddenly, through the sweating stage, or into the commencement of the intermittancc.
Página 106 - It was supposed that this substance was in part composed of casein derived from the mammary gland; but this does not appear to be the case. The so-called...
Página 25 - ... grs. The range above and below the mean of the chloride of sodium is very great, from 30 to 60 per cent. Parkes observes that " the limits of variation above and below the mean excretion, according to weight, are certainly considerable. If we compare two persons we find that one may excrete in twenty-four hours only...
Página 112 - ... 4. The quantity of urea discharged per day varies also with the weight of the individual, which influences the vital and mental work.
Página 227 - The nitric acid gives a deep orange-yellow colour, which becomes deep yellow on evaporation. The soda gives the yellow flake a red tinge, and, on heat and evaporation, a black-brown residue is left.
Página 79 - Have we then a right to conclude, that anything which impedes healthy metamorphosis is hurtful, and that, in checking disintegration, it will equally check formation? Perhaps, without going at present quite to this length, we may believe that the most perfect condition of health is rapid building and rapid unbuilding; and all the most strengthening hygienic means, as exercise, sea air, saline baths, and abundant nutritious animal food, act by forwarding both these processes. Appetite increases, but...