An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the urinary organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidney and bladder: and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion / by William Prout.
- William Prout
- Date:
- 1826
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the urinary organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidney and bladder: and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion / by William Prout. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tlOll ehcy With respect to the tendency and danger of ih we have seen that slighter degrees of it, in which t] may be considered as simply passive, can exist for yearifl^K3 out apparently becoming worse, or producing any semus effects on the constitution.* The danger of the affectiok however, must of course increase with its permanency anu\ degree, though it may be remarked, that even in the extraii* ordinary case above related, which may fairly be considered as of an extreme character, the constitutional symptoms were by no means severe; and what is still more singular, and apparently characteristic of its simply passive character, it did not even seem to interfere with the important function of generation. From what has been said, it will be readily seen, that in this condition of the urine we can hardly lay down any spe- cific plan of treatment, which must, therefore, depend very much on the nature of the disease with which the affection hap- pens to be complicated. Considered as a symptom, however, it may, in many instances, be useful in directing us to avoid certain remedies, such as stimulating diuretics, especially those of the alkaline kind, &c. the employment of which, for the most part, will be likely to do mischief in this affection. Sedatives and tonics also may be occasionally useful. With respect to the second form of albuminous urine, which we have termed serous, I am able to say very little. It has been supposed, that in such cases an inflammatory state of the system is present, and that the separation of serum with the urine is analogous to the serous effusion that takes place from inflamed surfaces : hence Dr. Blackall has parti- cularly insisted upon the use of this occurrence as a diagnos- • Dr. Wells, in the paper referred to below, has rendered it probable that in one case the urine was albuminous for a space of nine vears,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21036718_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
