Rational Pharmaceutics, Part 1

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recipes. Page 156. The way diuretics work when their base consists of spirituous or sulfurous particles, and their recipes. Page 157. The preparation of Salt of Prunella original: "Salis prunellæ"; a purified form of potassium nitrate used to treat sore throats and fevers, or mineral crystal, and its etiology the study of causes. Page 158. The distillation of spirit of nitre nitric acid and the reason for the process. Page 159. Spirit of the salt of nitre; its etiology and a more concise method. Page 160. Spirit of urine ammonia solution and its explanation. Page 161. Tincture of salt of Tartar potassium carbonate and its etiology. Page 162. Sulfur, or the method and reasoning for preparing oil of wine an ether-like byproduct of distilling wine with acids. Page 163. Salt of amber succinic acid, used as a stimulant and diuretic and its reasoning.

SECTION IV. CHAPTER II.

Diabetes, a disease once rare. Page 164. Its description. In the same place. Its immediate cause is not an obstruction of the kidneys, but rather a failing of the blood original: "sanguinis deliquium"; Willis argues that the blood loses its ability to hold onto fluids. Page 165. The combined and immediate cause resides in the blood, which a poor condition of the kidneys sometimes promotes. Page 166. That cause is usually an overly dissolved structure of the blood, just as the suppression of urine sometimes arises from an overly tight structure of the blood. Page 167. This is confirmed by authority and anatomical observations. In the same place. The more distant causes of diabetes are acidic humors poured into the blood. Page 168. And especially from a degenerate nervous fluid. In the same place. For this reason, spasmodic affections usually precede diabetes, and a flow of urine very often follows them. Page 169. Diabetes, although it is called "dropsy of the chamber pot" original: "hydrops ad matulam"; a historical nickname for diabetes because the body seems to melt away into urine, differs greatly from that disease. Page 170. The evident causes of diabetes. Page 171. Reasons for the symptoms. In the same place. From whence come copious and frequent urination with thirst and fever. In the same place.