Oxaluria / by Dr Debout d'Estrées.

  • Debout d'Estrées, Albert-Émile, 1841-1916.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Oxaluria / by Dr Debout d'Estrées. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    base, present the most effective means at onr com- mand to cure oxaluria. This last assertion is to be credited to Dr. Bouchar- dat, professor of hygiene, faculty of Paris. No evidence is required to establish the correctness of the first proposition. You will readily find crystals of oxalate of lime in urine twenty-four hours after the ingestion of food containing the salt in large quantifies, as, for instance, rhubarb, tomatoes, sorrel, etc. ; indeed string beans, oranges, celery, green fruits, apples, and water-cress contain it in notable quantities. The second point touching the co-existence of uric acid and oxalate of lime in the urine does not call for special proofs. No one who has made an analysis of the urine of a patient suffering from gravel has failed to discover, on microscopical exa- mination, crystals of oxalate of lime associated whith uric acid. Moreover, I will venture to say that there is no one present who has not met calculi with a nucleus of oxalate of lime surrounded by uric acid, and those rarer specimens in which deposits of oxa]ate of lime were found surrounding a nucleus of uric acid. The specimens ol gravel which I brought from Contrexeville, and which I have the honor to place before you, and which mere voided per vias naturales, show two rather exceptional features. In one you will find that oxalate of lime is deposited on two sides of a uric-acid calculus, in the other the stone seems to be formed of two distinct parts, namely, uric acid and oxalate of lime. Regarding the third statement, Wohler’s experi-