Researches Into the Action of Mercury (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...but as the amount of calomel given had seriously, indeed fatally, injured the health of the animal, it was determined to try in the next case the effect of minute and frequently repeated doses. Dog 3 was a young healthy retriever, weighing 12.9 kilogrammes. The operation for biliary fistula was performed on the I 3th of October, 1867. A few hours afterwards the dog pulled.the india-rubber tube out of the fistula, and the external opening of the fistula closed, so that on October I 5th the fistulous opening had to be reestablished by an incision. The wound in the abdominal wall healed satisfactorily, the faeces were clay-coloured, and the animal was in excellent health when the collection of bile was begun, October 26th, 1867. It was decided to observe the effects of, TABLE IX.--Observations on Dog 4. Daily amount of Bile secreted before and after Calomel and Pil. Hydrargyri were given. _ I_ 3 3 4-5 _L 6 ___________ 7 I W ei ght Quantity of bile For each kilo-For each 100 of Amount of food, in secreted gramme of dog ammes of dry L, do grammes. in twenty-four there were ood there were Date. g. hours. secreted secreted Amount of Mercury given. E. ." r _ Bluid Bil? Bile Fluid Bile Bile Fluid Bile _Bile_ KllOgs. water Mllk. Bread Meat. bile. solids. salts. bile._ solids. salts. bile. solids. salts. 61.9 3.34 0.81 i I 88.9 4.78 1.14 4.67 0.251 0.06 50.85 2.703 0.652 Before mercury was gwen. ggyivlgirgfirkglitz 333.4 282 56.4 '338.4 35.46 1.812I0.436 1.93 0.099 0-023 24-181-23 o-29 cury was given. l, j-7 J_ A-: No'rE.--The average amount of dry food consumed during the first period amounted to 16.2 grammes, or 8.8 grammes per kilogramme of dog. The average amount of dry food consumed during the first period amounted to 146.6...