Physiological and medical researches into the causes, symptoms, and treatment of gravel / by F. Magendie ... ; translated by a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855.
Date:
1818
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    health is a thousand times preferable to it. The hopes of this patient were not dis- appointed ; after having continued this regimen for six weeks, the sand and gravel had disappeared, and I suppose that he has not experienced a relapse of the disorder, from his not having written to me since that time. A fact which I must not omit to men- tion, is, that in the above instance, the patient, after about twelve or fifteen days from the time he commenced this mode of treatment, made a very large quantity of urine, quite disproportionate to the quantity of fluids which he drank; a circumstance which, without doubt, con- tributed in no small degree to the relief of his disease. I have seen a similar consequence take place in the experi- ments I made to ascertain the effects of food not containing azote, on man and animals. This leads us to the consider- ation of the second curative measure for the disease of which I now treat.