Von Ziemssen's Handbook of General Therapeutics Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...sodium chloride in the bodies of febrile subjects in the large quantity of organic albumen which has passed into the general fluids, liberating the potash salts from their combination with the albuminates and replacing them by salts of sodium.1 The Effects Of Food On The Febrile Subject. The notion that the administration of food intensified febrile conditions, and was therefore detrimental to the patient was at no time perhaps a purely arbitrary one, but withor doubt was founded on certain experience--the observation, fi instance, that convalescents not seldom exhibit a renewal fever when they begin after a long time again to take solid fo in considerable quantity. From the earliest times animal foi were held to be specially injurious to such patients--that is say, flesh meats, to which highly stimulating properties v ascribed, and which were thus opposed to most vegetable fo, When men began to distinguish more accurately between alimentary principles contained iu the various foods, an attribute to each its special action in the economy, tbe lieved that the doctrine of the ancient physicians still good, but in the form that ' the administration of albumi is specially to be deprecated in febrile diseases.' The thesis was by some supposed to have received a verification when Huppert and Eiesell in their research) nitrogenous metabolism found that after the free adminis of albuminates to febrile subjects more nitrogenous prod metabolism were excreted by the urine than with a diet albumen.2 From these researches most authorities ha eluded that in fevers not only can no nitrogenous equilih 1 F. Rohmann, ' Ueber die Ausscheidung dcr Chloride im KieVer f. llin. Mrd., o. i. 1880. H. Huppert and A. Riesell, ' Ueber den Stickstoffumsatz im Kit,1. IlodkuiuU; x. 186'J. o