Essay on the nature and treatment of cholera and fever : with medical remarks on the treatment of cattle plague : also an appendix on public health / by James Tucker.

  • Tucker, James.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Essay on the nature and treatment of cholera and fever : with medical remarks on the treatment of cattle plague : also an appendix on public health / by James Tucker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    By the lungs. Skin. Kidneys. Bowels. oz. OZ. OZ. OZ. OZ. Fluid egesta, . . 76J 204 64 454 3} Solid residue, . . 14 J 10} } 3 1} Total, ... 91 30| 6} CO 5 Solids subdivided into carbonaceous. nitrogenous. and saline matters:— Lungs. Skin. Kidneys. Bowels. OZ. OZ. OZ, OZ. OZ. Carbonaceous, . . 114 10} X 4 4 4 Nitrogenous, . . - - - 14 - Salts, - — - 1 - Residue of undigested matter. - - - Half the solids and fluids are removed by the kidneys, a third by the lungs, a thirteenth by the skin, and an eighteenth by the bowels ; whilst, of the fluids alone, the kidneys remove two-thirds, more than one-fourth are removed by the lungs, less than one- twelfth by the skin, and about one-twentieth by the bowels. The lungs remove two-thirds of the solid parts of the body in the form of carbonic acid and water in the state of vapour, the soluble nitrogenous and saline matters of the system are chiefly drained off by the kidneys. The exhalations from the skin and the bile abound in salts. Electricity is the agent which acts in aU the eliminating functions referred to (depending upon the electro-excitant saline condition of the blood), and which liberates the two electricities— one on the external acid surface or skin, the other on the internal alkaline mucous membrane. Matteucci shows that these electric cm*rents are weakened by summer heat and morbid poisons, and are increased by active respirations. The important remarks of Sir James Murray are worthy of notice. He says:—“As the oxidation of one of the metals in the galvanic trough is the cause of decomposing electricity, and as the presence of a fluid is essential to that display, so the oxidation of carbon, and of blood, and its iron, may exert similar decomposition of dormant electricity of the air in an admirably adapted voltaic pile, like the cells of the