Bacillary phthisis of the lungs / by Germain Sée ; translated and edited for English practitioners, by William Henry Weddell.

  • Sée, Germain, 1818-1896.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Bacillary phthisis of the lungs / by Germain Sée ; translated and edited for English practitioners, by William Henry Weddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21G form in the body. At first sight it appears tliat arsenious add will unité mort easily with albumen. For- merly arsenic acid was considered most poisonous. But we do not know yet what are the affinities of arsenious acid for a given bodily element. We know only tliat arsenious acid leaves tlie blood and other liquida in appear- ance unaltered. It does not produce the least immédiate iunctional trouble in the régions attacked. Even when mtroduced m the form of liquid into the bowels, the toxic eflects are produced much later than with other analogous poisons, as corrosive sublimate. We are, the]], led to believe that the acids of arsenic, inoffensive by them- selves as phosphoric acid, do not act so much by the arsenic as that they become hurtful in the organisai by contracting these toxic forms and new properties, whose nature is, undetermined. § 144. A.Tscoiic. Medicine of Ecoiiomy. We know that local action on the stomach is nearly always caused by the return of impregnated blood; it is necessary to détermine the Chemical action of this blood on the organs and parenchyma. Methods of measuring oxidation.~^re judge generally of oxidations by the quantity of their products, that is to say; (1) by urea, a product of décomposition from albumi- nates; (2) by C02, which cornes from ail anatomical élé- ments whose respiration is active, as muscles; (3) lately Nencki lias thought of measuring combustion by the quantity of carbolic acid produced from benzene introduced into the organism. (a) Diminution of urea.—Twenty years ago Sabelin believed lie had demonstrated that arsenic is a means of oxidation, and that urea is eliminated in greater quantities than in the normal state. But in 1868, when C. Schmidt