Contributions to the chemistry of the urine : on the variations in the alkaline and earthy phosphates in the healthy state, and on the alkalescence of the urine from fixed alkalies / by Henry Bence Jones ; communicated by S. Hunter Christie.

  • Jones, Bence, 1814-1873.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Contributions to the chemistry of the urine : on the variations in the alkaline and earthy phosphates in the healthy state, and on the alkalescence of the urine from fixed alkalies / by Henry Bence Jones ; communicated by S. Hunter Christie. 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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    (6.) A child twenty months old, fed on bread with some meat and milk, gave in the water passed during the day,— Earthy phosphates. Spec. gr. Alkaline phosphates. -32 per 1000 urine. 1012-2 4-00 per 1000 urine. (7.) On the same food. Earthy phosphates. Spec. gr. Alkaline phosphates. -33 per 100 urine. 1017'4 4-60 per 1000 urine. II. I next endeavoured to ascertain on what the variations depended, and first with regard to food. For three consecutive days bread alone was taken with water, tea and wine, at the same hours as in the previous experiments. (8.) The first day brown bread only. Earthy phosphates. Spec. gr. Alkaline phosphates. o’clock, evening’ *27 per 1000 urine 1025’7 7‘89 per 1000 urine ]] at night. 1'37 lOSO’O 6’39 (9.) The second day no analysis was made. The third day white bread only. Earthy phosphates. 6 o’clock, evening’ ’37 per 1000 urine 11 o’clock, evening’ T86 Spec. gr. Alkaline phosphates. 1024’7 8T9 per 1000 urine 1032-1 5-56 (10.) Meat only was taken for three days with water, wine, and tea. First day exercise very little. Earthy phosphates. 6 o’clock, evening *42 per 1000 urine 11 o’clock, evening Til (11.) The second day no analysis was made. Spec. gr. Alkaline phosphates. 1024-3 4-04 per 1000 urine 1021-9 4-21 The third day exercise rather more. Earthy phosphates. 6 o’clock, evening -48 per 1000 urine 11 o’clock, evening -81 Spec. gr. Alkaline phosphates. 1024-7 5-06 per 1000 urine 1024-8 4-31 (12.) Meat only for dinner with distilled water, and tea with distilled water. Earthy phosphates. Spec. gr. 5^ o’clock, evening -33 per 1000 urine 1025-7 9i o'clock, evening -67 1026-5 From the comparison of these numbers with the previously given average, it ap- pears that the earthy phosphates are not materially influenced by a diet of meat or diet of bread ; that they are in excess after either is taken ; and that even when animal food and distilled water alone were taken there was after food a decided increase, though the quantity was considerably below the average. That the alkaline phosphates were in excess when bread alone was taken for food ; and when meat alone was taken there was a considerable falling off in the amount excreted. 2 y 2