A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    away any former adhefion, we may reft affured the urine is of a proper kind; but if the fides of the veflel grow foul, and this foulnefs accumulates, it indicates a ftate of the urine that tends to oe or in- creafe calculus. | Six or eight ounces by meafure of the. mephitic alkaline water taken daily, will be found fufficient to keep the urine in a proper ftate by the generality of peoples . others may require double that quantity. ‘The effet of the mephitic alkaline wa- ter in diffolving the incruftations formed by the urine, affords a ftrong prefumption in favour of its diffolving power on the calculus, therefore whoever voids any cal- culous fragments during the time of drink- ing the mephitic alkaline water, has great reafon to think that they are parts of an old concretion mouldering away, provided however a fufficient quantity of the remedy . be taken to prevent any fur concreting on . the chamber-pot. As the alkaline mephitic water is fo