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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 606 of 653are sometimes infiltrated as in pneumonia, the bowels are injectesometimes covered with follicular ulcerations, the kidneys are frquently hypersemic, or inflamed, or degenerated. The serous effusions which not unfrequently occur in the extremities, as well asthe mucus of the stomach and the secretions in the lungs have beefound to produce an alkaline reaction and to contain ammonia.The blood sometimes has a violet color and, in many cases, showsgreater coagulability and an increase of fibrin.According to Frerichs, the blood contains in all cases where thecharacteristic symptoms of ursemia are present, carbonate of ammonia in varying quantities, sometimes manifesting its presence bits disagreeable odor and at other times effervescing by the addition of muriatic acid.Ur«mia. * 721JEtlolofff/, Urcemia 18 only observed in the course of other diseases. It may be caused by obstructions in the secretion of urineas may occur during an intense hyperemia of the kidneys, nephritis, extensive infiltration of the renal canaliculi iu Bright's din the course of scarlatina, etc.; or in degeneration of the kidnby renal calculi, carcinoma, atrophy, etc., or during the shrinkiof the substance of the kidneys in old people ; or it may be causby obstructions in the excretion of the urine, in consequence ofpressure upon both ureters, or in consequence of obstacles at thesphincter of the bladder or in the urethra, as in the case of stoor gravel, or from hypertrophy of the prostate, strictures of theurethra, etc.Urseniia may likewise occur during the last months of pregnancy,during or after parturition, in the course of scarlatina, choleraor from effusion of the urine between the tissues as during oj)ertions, wounds, injuries, perforations, etc.Symptoms. According to the course and intensity of thesymptoms we distinguish acute and chronic ursemia.Acute uraemia is almost always preceded by a diminished secretion of urine, or the secretion of urine meets with difficultiesobstructed ; at times there is only a reabsorption of the urine iconsequence of effusion of urine into the cellular tissue. The fisigns of ursemic intoxication of the blood often consist in vomitand diarrhoea, or only in vomiting, sometimes in apathy and drowsiness, or in headache with vomiting, weakness of sight and blanddelirium ; or convulsions and amaurosis set in all at once, and acommonly followed by ursemia of the highest degree of intensity.At other times the invasion of uresmia takes place with a violentchill followed by intense fever with typhoid symptoms. If cerebrasymptoms set in, they generally point to the presence of adynamiawe notice a dulness of perception, a difficulty of collecting onemind, stupefaction, somnolence or a deep sopor; the delirium isgenerally of the bland or moaning kind. In rare cases only theregreat restlessness, an excited state of the mind, loud delirium,to escape, etc. The cerebral symptoms are frequently associatedwith amblyopia, vertigo, mistiness of sight, or even real amaurosdeficient irritability of the pupil with hardness of hearing andhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt