Neurasthenia and its treatment by hypodermic transfusions : (according to the method of Doctor Jules Chéron) / by Ralph Browne.

  • Chéron, Jules.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Neurasthenia and its treatment by hypodermic transfusions : (according to the method of Doctor Jules Chéron) / by Ralph Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be the dose of artificial sérum transfused under the skin, so long as it is sufficient to pro- voke the stimulation of the central nervous System, is a diuresis which raises the quantity of the urine excreted (the figures being taken from observations made exclusively upon women, in whom the quan- tity of urine excreted in twenty-four hours is nor- mally 1,100 to 1,200 grammes) in twenty-four hours to 1,800 grammes, 2,000 grammes, and even more. The patients chosen for observation were amongst the most intelligent, and they ail stated that, after undergoing the transfusions, micturition was more frequent and more abundant, a fact due, no doubt, to the raising of arterial tension as a conséquence of the hypodermic transfusions. (b) The changes in the quality of the urine were as follows : Chlorine and Chloride of Sodium. These two bodies are notably augmented. Taking at hazard, amidst numerous observations, we find for one of them : Chlorine . . . 7*81 per litre. Chloride of sodium . 12*87 ,, Ouantities which are considérable if one reckons that in this case the quantity of urine passed in twenty-four hours was two litres, which gives : Chlorine . . . 15*62 per day Chloride of sodium . 25*74 „ while the normal quantity of urine excreted by a woman per day being 1,100 to 1,200 grammes,