On neurotic albuminuria and hæmaturia : more especially in relation to thermic neuroses and to taking cold / by Thomas Laycock, M.D.

  • Thomas Laycock
Date:
1874
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Credit: On neurotic albuminuria and hæmaturia : more especially in relation to thermic neuroses and to taking cold / by Thomas Laycock, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    carbon pigment is excreted of various colours by the skin—blue, yellow, brown-black—but we rarely, if ever, find urea or uric acid. From this point of view we must take in both the liver and the lungs, in their relation to the kidneys, as excreting used-up carbon or oxidized carbon of varying composition. The exhausting influence of a high atmospheric temperature upon both the skin and the kidneys may be more easily understood when we consider the relations of these organs to the need for water and for getting rid of superfluous carbon; but, more especially, as to the latter in inhabitants of temperate climes, when exposed to a high temperature, or when there is not habituation to extreme heat. That a high temperature influenced the origin of the thermic neuroses in Cases I. and II. is a leading fact in their histories; and that it had its influence on the bathers is not improbable. A continuously high temperature, from excessive muscular activity with profuse sweating, must have a like exhausting influence; and hence the readiness with which persons so situate take cold, and suffer from pyrexial diseases. Illustrations of these views as to the position of the nervous system in thermogeny might, indeed, be extended to almost any length in elucidation of the causes of disease.
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