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Urinary and Renal Derangements and Calculous Disorders: Hints on Diagnosis ... Lionel Smith Beale No preview available - 2016 |
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100 Urinary Deposits action acute affected albumen albuminuria alkaline altered ammonia attack becomes bioplasm bladder blood blood-corpuscles body capillaries cause chronic renal disease chyle colour condition consequence considerable quantity containing corpuscles crystals cure cystine derangement detected diabetes diet discharge disturbance doses doubt epithelial cells epithelium escape excreted fatty favour fluid formation frequently gallic acid gradually grains hæmorrhage important increased inflammation irritable kidney large quantity liver living matter malady Malpighian body microscopical milk mucous membrane nerves nervous occasionally occurs ordinary organs ounce oxalate of lime pain particles passed pathological patient pelvis pepsin phosphate potash practitioner present probably proportion pus-corpuscles quantity of albumen regards remedies renal calculus renal disease result salts secretion serum small quantity solution sometimes specific gravity stomach structure substance suffering sugar surface symptoms taken tion tissue treatment unfrequently urates urea ureter urethra uric acid urine uriniferous tubes vessels
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Page 223 - Take a sufficient quantity (say 1 quart) of wheat bran ; boil it in two successive waters for a quarter of an hour, each time straining it through a sieve; then wash it well with cold water (on the sieve) until the water runs off perfectly clear; squeeze the bran in a cloth as dry as possible...
Page 198 - ... over hot water, or in vacuo, over sulphuric acid. When dry it is scraped from the glass, powdered and kept in a stoppered bottle. A good digestive fluid may be made as follows: Of the powder 5 grains; strong hydrochloric acid 18 drops; water 6 ounces.
Page 223 - J oz. (or 2 oz. if desired) of butter, and about half a pint of milk, mix the eggs with a little of the milk, and warm the butter with the other portion ; then stir the whole well together, adding a little nutmeg and ginger, or any other agreeable spice. Bake in small tins (pattipans), which must be well buttered, in a rather quick oven for about half an hour.
Page 229 - ... acetate of lead. The washed lead precipitate is decomposed by sulphuretted hydrogen, and the filtrate evaporated to a syrup. This is dissolved in alcohol, filtered if necessary, and the solution, after being diluted with water, is precipitated again with acetate of lead. This precipitate is again decomposed by sulphuretted hydrogen. The solution filtered from the sulphuret of lead is then nearly colourless, and when evaporated on the waterbath furnishes Gallactic Acid, a bibasic acid, the salts...
Page 246 - Carter's paper, shows the per centage of calculi in India and in England entirely composed of uric acid, urate of ammonia, and oxalate of lime :• — The following are the conclusions to which Dr. Carter has been led : " 1. That, in the Bombay presidency, the proportion of calculi having oxalate of lime for their nucleus, or wholly composed of it, is about twice as great as in England, taking for comparison certain standard collections there. 2. That the proportion of calculi having uric acid,...
Page 235 - The black calculi occupied the pelvis, while the infundibula were tenanted with a few calculi of a whitish grey colour, with one exception small in size, about the magnitude of pear-seeds, and wanting the ordinary physical characters of phosphate of lime. One calculus, which occupied an infundibulum, is the size of a horse-bean, looks somewhat worn and disintegrated, and at one point resembles a piece of decayed wood. At one side it is black, from the presence of altered blood. It is very light in...
Page 262 - My own experience has certainly led me to the conclusion that lithotrity, if prudently and carefully performed, with a due attention to minute circumstances, is liable to a smaller objection than almost any other of the capital operations of surgery.
Page 37 - That, soon after resolution of the inflammation, the chloride is again present in the urine, and often in considerable quantity. 3. That, at this period (resolution), the serum of the blood is found to contain a greater amount of chloride than in health. 4. That the presence of chloride of sodium in the urine may be taken as evidence of the existence of a greater quantity of the salt in the blood than is required for the wants of the system generally, or, at least, of an amount sufficient for that...
Page 223 - ... supper ; at tea they require rather a free allowance of butter, or may be eaten with curd or any of the soft cheeses. " It is important that the above directions as to washing and drying the bran should be exactly followed, in order that it may be freed from starch, and rendered more friable.
Page 223 - ... then spread it thinly on a dish, and place it in a slow oven ; if put in at night let it remain until the morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground...