Rational Pharmaceutics, Part 1

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SECTION IV. CHAPTER I.

On Diuresis and Diuretic Medicines.

Diuresis the production of urine and Diaphoresis the production of sweat are related to each other. Page 136. The matter of urine, and of which liquids it consists. Page 137. How the serum the watery part of the blood is separated from the blood within the kidneys. In the same place. It is not drawn toward them the kidneys by attraction. Page 138. The structure and use of the kidneys are explained. In the same place. Serum is separated from the blood by straining through the ducts of the kidneys; however, this occurs with the help of a certain ferment original: "fermenti"; a chemical agent Willis believed induced changes in bodily fluids. Page 139. A certain part of the nutritional juice also flows out through that path. In the same place. The matter of urine is mainly derived from the blood, from which it is sometimes separated with difficulty and sometimes too easily. Page 140. The secretion of serum from the blood is best illustrated through the separation, curdling, and reduction of milk. Page 141. The ways in which the curdling of milk is usually produced, inhibited, or removed. Page 142. The reasons for each are provided. In the same place and page 143. To what extent these have analogues comparable processes in the blood. Page 144. Experiments regarding chemical liquids poured into warm blood. In the same place. So that the blood may properly deposit the serum, it must be protected from both excessive separation and excessive thickening. In the same place and page 145. How the excretion of serum errs in excess or in deficiency. In the same place. The classification of diuretics medicines that promote urination according to their purposes, matter, and form. Page 146. First, saline diuretics endowed with volatile easily evaporated or acidic salts, which are suitable when the structure of the blood is too tightly bound. In the same place. Second, those endowed with fixed salt stable salts that remain after burning, and what purposes they serve. Page 151. Medical formulas for diuretics, and first those for which fixed salt serves as the base. In the same place. How diuretics endowed with volatile salt help. Page 152. Medical formulas for diuretics for which volatile salt serves as the base. Page 153. Formulas for medicines of this kind. In the same place. The method of operation for diuretics endowed with alkaline salt, and their formulas.