Lectures on Auto-intoxication in Disease: Or, Self-poisoning of the IndividualDavis, 1900 - 302 pages |
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accidents acid action albuminuria alimentary alkaloids ammonia amongst antisepsis antiseptic antiseptic treatment anuria auto-intoxication bacillus baths bile bilirubin body carbon cause cells centigrammes centimetres of urine charcoal cholera cholera patients choleraic urine coloring matter coma contains convulsions cubic centi cubic centimetres death decolorized demonstrated diarrhoea digestive canal dilatation diminish diminution disassimilation disease dose dyspepsia eliminated emunctories excessive experiment experimental fæcal matter fermentation gastric grammes grammes of living increase induce infectious agents insoluble in alcohol intestinal canal intoxication intra-venous injection iodoform jaundice kidney kill kilogramme kilogramme of animal kilogramme of blood liquid litre liver microbes morbid myosis naphthalin nephritis nervous neutralized normal urine nutrition observed pathogenic pathological physiological poisons potass produced putrefaction putrid quantity of urine quinine rabbit weighing renal result secretion soda soluble stomach symptoms temperature therapeutic tion tissues toxic material toxic substances toxicity of urine twenty-four hours typhoid fever uræmia urea urinary urotoxies veins
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Page viii - Auto-Intoxication," clearly indicates to us that man is constantly standing, as it were, on the brink of a precipice; he is continually on the threshold of disease. Every moment of his life he runs the risk of being overpowered by poisons generated within his system. Self-poisoning is only prevented by the activity of...
Page 14 - Man is in this way constantly living under the chance of being poisoned; he is always working toward his own destruction; he makes continual attempts at suicide by intoxication. And yet this intoxication is not realized, for the organism possesses numerous resources which enable him to escape the intoxication which is always threatening. He throws off these toxic substances into a special reservoir, from which they afterward pass...
Page 277 - In all ages the course adopted has been to increase the action of the various emunctories of the body. To provoke perspiration was the alpha and omega of the therapeutic treatment of antiquity. Hot or warm drinks, wrapping in hot linen or wet sheets, the administration of Dover's powder have all been employed with the object of acting upon the humors. I am inclined to think that the result of perspiration is not beneficial, since perspiration lessens the urine, which carries out of the system so...
Page 210 - To convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit. Multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32 to the result.
Page v - ... processes until lately unknown or misunderstood. These lectures may, therefore, be regarded as an inquiry into the operation of poisons introduced from without or generated within the body of man, and the part they play in health and disease. No subject commands a greater interest; none demands more serious study. Death frequently carries off in a few hours or days individuals who are in the prime of life and in apparent good health, and at the autopsy the most careful examination fails to reveal...
Page 125 - Bouchard and which he designates "extractive matters," one of which upon injection into animals produces convulsions, another lowers the temperature, and, lastly, one contracts the pupil. To quote from Bouchard : ' 'One kilogramme of man eliminating in twenty-four hours a quantity of urine capable of killing 461 grammes of animal, the proportional part of the mineral matter in this toxicity may be indicated as follows : potass, kills 217 grammes ; soda, 30 grammes; calcium, 10 grammes; magnesia,...
Page xi - Recent investigation has shown that the urine is much less toxic than normal in cases of mania, while the lethal action of this fluid is increased in melancholia. Maniacal urine gives rise to excitement and convulsions when injected into an animal, while the injection of urine from a case of melancholia is followed by depression of spirits, restlessness, and stupor,—a proof that auto-intoxication is the cause and not the effect of the mental condition.
Page v - Putrefactive processes in the intestinal canal and the development of physiological and pathological alkaloids play an important part in many diseased processes until lately unknown or misunderstood.
Page 14 - HAVE said that the organism, in its normal, as in its pathological state, is a receptacle and a laboratory of poisons.
Page 10 - We find even in certain secretions — in saliva, for example — products extremely toxic, and which are not ferments. This toxicity is only partly due to alkaloids. Whatever opinion we may have in regard to the origin of alkaloids, it is certain that we meet with them in normal...