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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    ‘portion of animal mucus; and probably other circumftances, which we do not at prefent, and perhaps never may under- ftand. Tt appears siciee Pie I_ think, that diuretic remedies, merely as fuch, have no good effects in calculous complaints... In-— dependent of their ftimulus, which I be- lieve always to be injurious, it is found, that a quick fecretion of urine has no ef- fect in preventing the generation of cal- culi. A gentleman, whofe cafe is related above, had a ftone generated evidently during a courfe of the Harrowgate waters, which acted powerfully as a diuretic. The experiments made with the faturated alkaline folution, as an antifeptic, confirm the obfervations of Mr. Colborne, on the effects it fhewed on his urine; and we may infer from both, that no danger is to dency, which, as an alkali, it apeht. be -fuppofed to produce. In the former eae of this work it fe 1S