The preventive treatment of calculous disease and the use of solvent remedies / by Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1873
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    will easily understand as indicating more or less distinctly a certain set of symptoms. Let them be briefly described as mainly consisting of a constant, or almost constant, deficient excreting function by the bowels, sometimes, but by no means always, associated with impaired appe- tite and slow or uneasy digestion; these latter being often absent if the diet is carefully selected, or if the patient lives in the open air and takes much exercise. On the other hand, considerable and multiform symptoms of dis- turbed digestion may be frequently present. I cannot positively state whether those pheno- mena are really due to inactivity of the organ in question; practically, for us to day, this does not signify much, but the current terms are still convenient formularies until better ones can be substituted for describing the condition in question. Now, at the bottom of this tendency to uric- acid production there often lies what is thus understood as inactivity of the liver; and the true rationale of the unduly large formation of the urinary salts appears to be that, the liver