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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![beer,* of exercise on horseback; the depressing passions, or other debilitating causes, as long continued intermittent fever,f the use of opiates,] any one or more of which con- curring with a favourable circumstance more immediately of I an exciting kind, may in some instances actually produce the^ disease in an individual not originally disposed to it. Although we have thus rendered it probable that even ak saccharine condition of the urine may exist for a considerable^ time, without becoming complicated with diuresis, and conse- • quently with comparatively little inconvenience to the patient; yet when diuresis has once taken place, and been permitted'^ to continue for some time, the character of the disease seems \ to be changed and rendered much more formidable; for though in most instances the tendency to diuresis may, by the judi- ,| cious application of remedies and attention to diet, be, perhaps*;; very much diminished, or altogether removed, yet the difficulty^ of preserving the patient in this improved state is very great, a and the affection is liable to be reproduced by the slightest I exposure to exciting causes; more especially when the com-: plaint had been previously of long standing, or had been pre- I sent in a very great degree. [The importance of diet will be enforced in the mind of the judicious practitioner, by the 1 following quotation from Sydenham, by whom Dr. Rollo is supported in his deservedly celebrated plan of treating this disease: Let the patient eat food of easy digestion, such as veal, mutton, and the like, and abstain from all sorts of fruit and garden stuffs, and at his meals drink Spanish,0 wine. This plan is no doubt very successful in many cases: later trials, however, prove that this intractable disease is not always to be overcome by it: it alters considerably and di- minishes the urine, yet, from the difficulty of enforcing it, • Sydenham. f Rollo, p. 143.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21036718_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
