First lines of the practice of physic (Volume 2).

  • William Cullen
Date:
1805
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    sediment deposited by urine without blood, upon the urine's- being again heated, will be entirely redissolved, which will not happen to any sediment from blood. Lastly, we know no state of urine without blood, which shews any portion of it, coagulable by a heat equal to that of boiling water ; but blood diffused in urine is still coagulable by such a heat j and by this test, therefore, the presence of blood in urine may be commonly ascertained. BOOK V. OF PROFLUVIA, OR FLUXES, WITH PYREXIA. 1044.] TT'ORMER nosologists have established a class of .17 diseases under the title of Fluxes, or Proflu- via ; but as in this class they have brought together a great number of diseases, which have nothing in common, ex- cepting the single circumstance of an increased discharge of fluids, and which also are, in other respects, very dif- ferent from one another ; I have avoided so improper an ar- rangement, and have distributed most of the diseases com- prehended in such a class by the nosologists, into places more natural and proper for them.* I have, indeed, still employed here the general title ; but I confine it to such fluxes only as are constantly attended with pyrexia, and which therefore necessarily belong to the class of diseases of which I am now treating. Of the fluxes which may be considered as being very constantly febrile diseases, there are only two, the catarrh and dysentery; and of these therefore, I now proceed to treat. CHAPTER I. OF THE CATARRH. 1045.] nr^HE catarrh is an increased excretion of um_ X cus from the mucous membrane of the nose fauces, and bronchia?, attended with pyrexia. * Sauvages enumerates no less than thirty-six genera of fluxes, each of which are subdivided into numerous species. Vogel has forty five genera, under the title of Profluvia. most of whx li ase extremely different from each, other in their essential qualities.
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