The irritable bladder : its causes and curative treatment / by Frederick James Gant.

  • Frederick James Gant
Date:
1859
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Credit: The irritable bladder : its causes and curative treatment / by Frederick James Gant. 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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    litliic acid, of lithate of ammonia, and of oxalate of lime, must be detected and dis- criminated, ere we can reasonably hope to remove these constitutional causes of the irritable bladder. The urine secreted at from three to six hours after a meal presents the products of digestion; while that secreted several hours subsequently, when the urine of digestion has run off, presents the products of secondary assimilation, or the debris of the textures. This latter may be called urine of the blood, and if examined in the morning, before break- fast, and after an interval of fasting from over- night, wiU be found to contain, unlike the urine of digestion, the waste of the textures. To make this observation complete, the blad- der should be emptied over-night, to prevent any admixture of the urine then in the blad- der with that which is secreted during the night. 13y this simple observance, these two sources
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