Inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to prove that certain substances are conveyed, unchanged, into the circulation, or, if changed, that they are recomposed and regain their active properties / by Edward Darrell Smith, A.M. of Charleston, South-Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

  • Smith, Edward Darrell, 1778-1819.
Date:
1800
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    property. It appears to abftracl the mucus from the calculus, to loofen the connecting medium of the earth which compofes it, and to diminifh the whole ftone by diflolving a part and foftening the remainder which was infoluble.* The carbonate of foda is equally efficacious in al- leviating the diftreffing fymptoms of nephritis, and in caufing large quantities of gravel to pafs off by urine. The (tones voided appeared half difiolved, which before had been hard and rough, and when dry feemed to be covered with a fine foft pow- der. The ufe of this medicine produced a large mucous and very ropy fediment in the urine and a great abatement of pain. This medicine has alfo given great relief in biliary calculi of long {landing, f Fixed air is afferted to be lithontrip- tic. Doctor Percival informs us, that an eminent phyfician in London has been fuccefsful in the ufe of it, having brought away in fmall fragments, and in a whitifh chalk-like fubftance, a ftone from the urinary bladder, by adminiftering fixed air to his patient during the fpace of a few <e weeks.| Several refpe&able authorities have adopted the opinion, that fixed air may be convey- ed unchanged into the bladder. Although it may be doubted whether fixed air can be conveyed through the circulation into the bladder; yet it appears from experiment that from a certain quan- tity of frefh made urine, one fifth of its bulk of pure ' Haller. Hiftor. Stirp. Indigen. Helvet. Vol. I. f Bcddoes. \ Percival. F