On Gravel, calculus & gout : chiefly an application of Professor Liebig's physiology to the prevention and cure of these diseases / by H. Bence Jones.
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- 1842
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Credit: On Gravel, calculus & gout : chiefly an application of Professor Liebig's physiology to the prevention and cure of these diseases / by H. Bence Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![or if we suppose the benzoic acid to combine witli ammonia and oxygen thus— Benzoic acid = Cgg U,oO, ^ fCigN Hg Oj = Hippur. acid. Ammonia = N H3 f== ] ^lo O20 = lOCarb.acid. 24 Oxygen = oj I Hs O5 = 5 Water. Citrates and acetates, when given by the mouth, are found to be changed by the action of oxygen into carbonates, and in this form they appear in the urine; and on this account, these salts of the vege- table acids are found to be equally efficacious as the carbonates or free alkalies, in effecting a change in the urine; whilst sometimes these disagree far less with the stomach than j)otash or soda. It is pos- sible, that in the blood all alkalies combine with the albumen, and that it is this compound dissolved in the water of the blood, which keeps the uric acid in solution in the capillaries of the body. The more alkaline the water is, the greater will be its power of dissolving the uric acid; any large excess of water which may be taken into the blood rapidly jjasses off by the kidneys, and keeps in solution whatever urate of ammonia may have passed off unchanged. Professor Liebig seems to think, that the appear- ance of uric acid in the urine of different animals varies with the quantity which the animals drink; but perhaps it may more generally be stated thus, the signs + and — being taken for much and lit-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21951226_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
