The natural cure of consumption, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds (fevers) etc. : how sickness originates, and how to prevent it a health manual for the people / by C.E. Page.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
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[1883], ©1883
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    with regard to the causation of Bright's disease. This malady he regards as not essentially renal, but as consisting in a general morbid alteration of nutri- tion, and observes that albumen in such cases is not passed by the urine only, but by all the secretory organs. This alteration [or, rather, I should say, the lack of alteration by digestion] deprives the albu- minoid materials of the blood of their power of being assimilated, and so causes their excretion by the emunctories. The renal lesions he ascribes to me- chanical irritation of the tubules of the kidney by the constant passage of albumen through them. Albu- minuria is therefore a cause, not a result, of renal disease.* M. Simmola founds these views on a series of experiments on animals. He injected into the blood-vessels various substances containing albumen, as white of egg, milk, and blood-serum, with the re- sult of inducing artificial Bright's disease. White of egg was most active in this way. 3 [note to page 169.] Water as Medicine and Food.—There is no royal road to health once deeply diseased. In cer- tain cases, and for a limited period even in these, hot water is invaluable. But if long continued—used as a constant beverage instead of a temporary expedient to aid in removing the slime and gurry from stomachs * And this only one of the hundred and one instances, in medical practice, of cart before the horse, which may make the difference of life or death with every patient under treatment 1