The treatment of rheumatic diseases by lemon juice : with illustrative cases from hospital practice / by G. Owen Rees.

Date:
1849
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Credit: The treatment of rheumatic diseases by lemon juice : with illustrative cases from hospital practice / by G. Owen Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oxygen may there be made use of to modify the results of the digestive process. Knowing then, as we do, that in the class of gouty and rheumatic affections there is a tendency to the introduction of lithic acid into the circulation, in what manner may we suppose this excess of oxygen to assist us ? Let us first con- sider the constitution of lithic acid, and we shall observe the fact, so well known to animal chemists, that its elements may easily be converted into those of urea and carbonic acid, by the addition of water and oxygen. This will be at once apparent from the following diagram :— 1 atom of lithic acid C10 N4 H4 0G 4 atoms of water H4 04 6 atoms of oxygen O0 c,o N4 h8 o16 equal to 2 atoms of urea C4 N4 H8 04 0 atoms of carbonic acid C6 O, ClO N4 Ids OlG