The Irritable Bladder, Its Causes and Treatment; Including a Practical View of Urinary Pathology, Deposits, and Calculi - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... an unlimited period. By their instrumentality Mr. Camplin not only rescued himself from a deplorable state of health, but was preserved from the everthreatening recurrence of this disease during a period of no less than fourteen years. Cod-liver oil in large quantities,--seven or eight ounces daily,--is highly recommended by Dr. Bence Jones, in cases of considerable emaciation. Albumen in Urine--Treatment of Bright's disease.--The retention of urea and water, in' the blood, with the discharge of albumen in the urine; and subsequently the proportionate exchange of water for albumen in this secretion, while the retention of urea in the blood proportionately increases: these are the changes in the relation of the blood and urine, which are essentially of therapeutic importance. Nutriment in its best form,--albumen,--is incessantly draining away from the blood; while effete and noxious matter,--urea,--representing the decay of the textures, is simultaneously retained: thus conceding the powers of life to the dominion of death. Besides the symptoms incident to this double process of destruction--by starvation and blood poisoning, both of which are faithfully represented by the condition of the urine--general dropsy supervenes, owing to the retention of the water, which infiltrates the cellular texture throughout the body,--presenting an additional symptom. "Stomach and Renal Diseases." 1850. Case p. 122. Structural or pathologico-anatomical changes in the kidney are the. immediate causes in operation;--congestion, followed by pale interstitial effusion, with desquamation and damage of the tubuli uriniferi; fatty, or waxy (amyloid) degeneration of the effused matter, or its absorption and contraction,--constituting the so-called granular...

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