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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 608 of 653Bojx)r, or by an increase of the typhoid symptoms. Cases which sein with symptoms of cerebral irritation and bear some resemblanceto meningitis, occur much less frequently. The existing disturbances in the urinary secretions and excretions shed light on thediagnosis. The more violent the symptoms of ursemia, the shorterthe course of the disease; the milder the symptoms, the morechronic its course.The worst cases occur if, in consequence of retention, stagnationor effusion of urine into the cellular tissue, the urine is decomand the blood is poisoned with carbonate of ammonia; this infection is designated by Treitz as ammonicemia.Considerable quantities of urea and carbonate of ammonia arenot only found in the blood, but likewise in the stomach, intesticanal and other secretory organs. The presence of carbonate ofammonia in the stomach is manifested by copious vomiting of substances that have an ammoniacal odor.If the ursemic blood is decomposed in the intestinal canal or isdecomposed already when entering the circulation: watery diarrhoeic stools take place having the odor of ammonia; or else adysenteric process sets in, attended with a diphtheritic or gangrenous destruction of the mucous membrane of the large intestineand of imminent peril to the preservation of vitality. The buccalmucous membrane frequently exhibits scurfy exfoliations spreadingdown into the throat, in consequence of which the voice becomeshusky and sometimes extinct "as in the case of cholera-patients.The saliva, the milk in the breasts, the perspiration contain carate of ammonia and have the odor of ammonia. The expired airlikewise spreads an odor of urine and ammonia. The skin is frequently seen covered with a whitish ammoniacal dust, crystals ofurea and the chloride of sodium.The irritating action of Ammonia upon the various organs frequently causes a momentary hyperseraia of the brain which verysoon results in sopor ; in the lungs an intense catarrh or croupoinflammation develops itself ; effusions rapidly set in in the plpericardium, peritoneum and in the ventricles of the brain : thestagnation and decomposition of the urine in the bladder frequentlead to inflammations and suppurations of the vesical lining membrane, or to depositions of pus between the different layers of tbladder, in consequence of which the symptoms of ammoniaemiaand pyaemia may api>ear together. If renal dropsy is at the same724 Urxmia.time present, the accumulations of serum under tlie skin and thevarious transudations contain urea and carbonate of ammonia.The course of ammonisemia is either acute or chronic ; its symptoms bear the greatest resemblance to urtemia with which it isfrequently confounded. The above-mentioned pathognomonic symptoms give the exact diagnostic distinctions between these two conditions. Uraemic symptoms frequently occur without any symptomsof ammoniffimia ; but the latter never exist without the former.Acute ammonieemia likewise sometimes runs its course with thehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt