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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    rule—indeed, too simple, I think—is often adopted. When the urine has persistently and habitually thrown down acid deposits, the patient has generally been prescribed alkalies: if, on the contrary, he has had alkaline deposits, , he has been treated with acids. That simple mode has too often formed the main portion of the treatment. In the former case he has soda or potash largely administered, or he will be told to drink so many glasses of Vichy water, which is mainly a strong solution of carbonate of soda, only it is a natural instead of an arti- ficial one. Now it is quite true that with alkalies, provided enough be taken, these deposits will disappear; the uric acid will no longer be deposited; the urine will become less irritating; the annoying symptoms will be diminished or got rid of. And of course the patient is very much pleased with this new condition of clear urine and disappearance of all deposit. And you will say, What more can be desired ? This : you have merely 1 made his enemy disappear, but he is by no means rid of its presence : you have not checked