The morbid effects of the retention in the blood of the elements of the urinary secretion / by William Wallace Morland.

  • Morland, W. W. (William Wallace), 1818-1876.
Date:
1861
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Credit: The morbid effects of the retention in the blood of the elements of the urinary secretion / by William Wallace Morland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    49 to 56 fluidounces. Average specific gravity, 1.020. Mean amount of solids, 55 to 56 grammes (a gramme is 15.4440 grains, English). Constituents. Water . . 1345 to 1534 grammes. Urea 30 to 40 463 to 617 glfl . 0.5 or 7.5 It . 0.3 or 4.5 it . 0.45 or 7.0 tt Sarkine •) Uraematine > . undetermined. Uroxanthine ) Hippuric Acid . 0.5 or 7.5 u Cblorine 6 to 8 92 to 123 u (or Chloride of Sodium 10 to 13 154 to 200 ) Sulphuric Acid . 1.5 to 2.5 23 to 38 (i Phosphoric Acid . . 3.66 56 it Potash and Soda \ Lime and Magnesia J . undetermined. Earthy Phosphates . 1.28 grammes, 19 tt Iron . undetermined. 10 it Trimethylamine ' Carbonic Acid Phenylic Acid ■ . undetermined. Damaluric Acid The minor estimates account for 48 out of 55 grammes of solids, the larger estimates for 62 out of 66 grammes of solids.—Thudichum, op. cit. From an examination of the above table, in connection with the requi- sitions of the subject, it will be evident that we have only to indicate the pathological effects arising from the undue retention in the blood, of the following constituents of the urinary secretion : Water; Urea; Uric Acid ; Creatine; Creatinine; Hippuric Acid; Chlorine; Chloride of Sodium ; Sulphuric Acid; Phosphoric Acid; Earthy Phosphates, and Ammonia. The other ingredients of the urine, mentioned as being found in undeter- mined proportions, cannot enter into the list, in a practical consideration of the subject. Water.—Taking up the urinary constituents in succession, we first ex- amine the results to be observed when that amount of water which should be excreted through the agency of the kidneys, is not so evacuated. This portion of our subject may be comprehensively disposed of. A very variable amount of fluid is evacuated from the bladder at differ- ent seasons of the year, and under peculiar and differing circumstances. Thus, in cold weather, the amount of urine is greater, because the cuta- neous transpiration is less. Again, when large amounts of liquids are