Drink restrictions (thirst cures) particularly in obesity : being part VI of several clinical treatises on the pathology and therapy of disorders of metabolism and nutrition / by Professor Dr Carl von Noorden ... and Dr Hugo Salomon.

  • Noorden, Carl von, 1858-1944.
Date:
1905
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    tration of tlie blood (removed in the ordinary way by a small cutaneous puncture or puncture of a vein) is normal. Occasionally hyperglobulia and increased concentration are formed, particularly in lesions of the right side of the heart, and in congenital heart- diseases. In all of the cases in which the blood was found abnormally dilute (anaemia or hydraemia), com- plicating diseases, insufficient nutrition, etc., could be incriminated. In cases of disturbed compensation, the percentage of water in the blood was sometimes found somewhat low, but much more frequently it was found normal or a little increased (in part as a result of the decrease of erythrocytes and haemoglobin, in part as a result of genuine hydraemia, i. e., hypalbuminosis of the plasma). In the cases in which considerable degrees of hydraemia were found, the patients were, as a rule, very much reduced, or they were suffering from com- plicating diseases. One is not, therefore, justified in speaking of typical hydrannia, that is, the result of pure compensatory disturbances, the existence of which Oertel has postulated. It will be seen that the results of objective blood examinations are not favorable to Oertel’s theory. The fundamental question is not, however, touched by this result, for it is immaterial what becomes of the water, i. c,, whether it remain in the blood vessels, causing plethora and hydraemia, or whether it diffuses into the tissues or is excreted through the lungs, the skin or the kidneys; the fact remains that the daily