Experimental researches on the physiological and therapeutic action of phosphate of lime / by L. Dusart.

  • Dusart, Lucien O.
Date:
1885
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    which prevents a normal condition of nutrition. So that to re-awaken nutrition is to secure the co-opera- tion of nature.” THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION. It is evident from the facts already stated that phos- phate of lime is an active factor in vital phenomena, whenever it is presented under a form which secures assimilation, and that it even produces the phenomena of stimulation. This was beyond our expectation. Experiment on healthy or injured individuals does not exhibit, in fact, any appreciable manifestations excepting those of increase of appetite ; but it is not the same when its action is observed in those who are found in a suitable condition for the appearance of phenomena. Such, for example, are the rickety infant, which presents that state of languor which is neither sick- ness nor health ; the adolescent or the adult con- valescent, aftef a sickness of long duration, wherein destruction of all the organic or inorganic elements is produced. Then, indications appear that are easily observed ; the child who has been seen a few days before suffer- ing, languishing, its physiognomy without expression, appears before us under an entirely new aspect. The face is animated, it is continuously in motion, and cannot remain at rest. Furthermore, the appetite has become insatiable. The rickety child, which its legs can scarcely sustain, walks heavily leaning against the walls of the room. Amongst convalescents, the dominant phenomenon