The American eclectic materia medica and therapeutics by Medical Publishing Company 1874

Author:Medical Publishing Company, 1874 [Medical Publishing Company, 1874]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Medical Publishing Company
Published: 2018-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Recapitulation.

1st Diuretics are useful in any disease in which there ii a diminution or suppression of urine; in such cases they stimulate the kidneys to normal action, and thus promote the elimination of the normal constituents of the urine.

A certain class of them greatly increase the solids of the urine, not only by causing an elimination of such materials as are already fitted for excretion, but also, as we suppose, by so changing the less vitalized material as to permit its elimination.

The alkaline diuretics not only increase the solids of of the urine, and thus prove eliminative, but they also act as refrigerants, and to some degree prevent the disintegration of the tissues of the body, by combining with a portion of the oxygen in the circulation.

4th. They promote the absorption of dropsical effusions, by lessening the quantity of the circulating fluid, and by destroying the balance between the solids and fluids of the blood—absorption being active in proportion to the diminution of serum in the vessels.

5th. They act as counter-irritants, causing the formation of a new point of excitement and fluxion, by which means other parts are relieved.

6th. They act topically in diseases of the urinary organs; their virtues being in part transmitted to the urine, they are brought into direct contact with the diseased tissue.

7th. They augment the elimination of water, and thus enable the urine to hold in suspension any material requiring much of this fluid to hold it in solution. They also act as solvents in calculus affections; but most probably this is only in proportion to the amount of water excreted—water, according to the best authorities, being the best solvent for "atone."

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