Clinical chemistry : an account of the analysis of blood, urine, morbid products, etc., with an explanation of some of the chemical changes that occur in the body, in disease / by Charles Henry Ralfe.

  • Ralfe C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1896.
Date:
1883
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    disease, or have noted the high degree of the acidity of the urine during the progress of the attack, without coming to the conclusion that an excessive formation of acid is going on in the system. What the nature and character of the acid is, or how formed, we know absolutely nothing, though some have supposed it to be lactic acid. Whatever the acid may be, its de- velopment seems to be local rather than general, and is apparently excited by catarrhal influences rather than by pi'evious accumulation of acid in the tissues and fluids. The acute manifestation of the disease occurring for the most part among young adults, or during the earlier period of middle age, there is not the same impairment of tissue as is the case with gouty patients, which may account for the non-deposition of urate of soda; or else the specific character of the inflammation being excited by a different cause, and not to a prolonged saturation of the tissues with acid products, does not lead to the accumulation and de- posit of uric acid in the tissues.