Index raisonné to the New materia medica / by J.C. Peters and F.G. Snelling.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
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[1861]
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    INDEX RAISONNfi T 0 THE NEW MATERIA MEDICA. BY Dr. J. C. PETERS & F. G. SNELLING. A. Acids play a most important part in' the organism; the gastric juice is distinguished for its acidity, Muriatic and Lactic-acids being predominant; the acidity of the muscular juice is equally marked, Lactic-acid alone being present; the parenchymatous fluids of the spleen, thymus gland, smooth muscles, liver and supra-renal capsules, all contain free acid, the acid-phosphates being internally present; the serum of the blood is always alkaline, but the contents of the red blood corpuscules have either an actually acid reaction, or else con- tain substances which are able to saturate alkalies ; the urine, it is well known, is always acid in health, mainly arising from the pre- sence of Acid-phosphate of Soda, although no less than thirty-one grains of Sulphuric are secreted by the kidneys in twenty-four hours, also from fifty-two to seventy-five grains of Phosphoric-acid, and from seven and a half to'fifteen grains of Uric-acid—the acidity of urine also often increases rapidly after its discharge, owing to the formation of Lactic or Acetic-acid in it. From the above it is evident that there must be a proper supply of acids to the system for the maintenance of health; sometimes the supply must be diminished, at others increased. Muriatic and Phos- phoric-acids are regarded as powerful tonics ; Sulphuric, as the most efficient astringent; Nitric, as an alterative and hepatic remedy. Acidity: Acid.-acet. p. 7. Acid-fluoric. 18. 21. Acid.-sulph. 82. Amnion.-carb. 270. Acidity.—Acetic-acid is sometimes found in the stomach; thus in one case after vegetables and a little meat, but no vinegar had been taken, the vomited matters were analyzed, and Lehmann satisfied himself with certainty regarding the presence of Acetic-acid. Fluoric-acid is also sometimes developed in excess in the stomach. A