Urinary diseases, and their treatment / by Robert Willis.

Date:
1838
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Urinary diseases, and their treatment / by Robert Willis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PART FIRST. FUNCTIONAL DERANGEMENTS OF THE KIDNEYS, AND THEIR IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES. CHAPTER I. MORBID STATES IN WHICH THE SECRETING FACULTY OF THE KIDNEYS IS EXALTED, AND THE MENSTRUUM AND READILY SOLUBLE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTHY URINE OCCUR IN ALTERED ABSOLUTE OR RELATIVE QUANTITY. Section 1.—Of the discharge of Urine which is cha- racterized by deficiency of solid matters generally,— Hydruria. The kidneys, as one of the two principal sluices by which superabundant fluid is discharged from the body, are frequently called upon for an extraordi- nary display of their office, which, under healthy conditions of the system, they answer in a manner that is truly wonderful. Indulgence in large quan- tities of watery fluid, unless the skin be in a state of singular activity, is necessarily followed by a corre- sponding, or something like a corresponding, dis- charge of urine. The persons who drink their eight, ten, or twelve half-pint tumblers of mineral water every morning, necessarily and certainly void near- ly as many half pints of urine in the course of the B
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