The preventive treatment of calculous disease, and the use of solvent remedies / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1876
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    and very unnecessarily excites much anxiety on the part of the patients, and only the per- sistence of which can be looked upon as a sign of what is called the uric-acid diathesis. Mind, I mean strictly persistence, or at all events frequency of occurrence: for you or I with no hereditary predisposition, may take a little more beer than usual, or an extra glass of champagne, or a glass or two of unaccus- tomed port, and find next morning a con- siderable quantity of this pinkish deposit, the urine looking almost like pea-soup, but not so thick, or like a mixture of rhubarb and mag- nesia ; and when the vessel is tilted on one side, a tidal mark, so to speak, is seen, showing the height at which the liquid stood; all this, as I said before, being rcdissolved by heat. The opacity of the liquid, as well as its tint, which may vary from fawn to dull red, are due to the rapid production of the mixed urates; that is, urates of soda, potash, lime, &c. But if, without any errors of diet, of which any but a very small allowance of alco- holic drink is only one, a patient habitually