Eaton's Domestic Practice for Parents and Nurses; Illustrated

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. Urinary, sometimes proceed from the kidney, more commonly formed in the bladder, by precipitation or irritation; (a) most frequently they are composed of uric acid, when they are globular or oblong, light- brown, pale fawn, or deep rich brown in color, often passed with the urine; (b) next in frequency those of oxalate of lime, dense and heavy, but not of large size, but angular, studded with tubercles, and of a rich brown or mulberry color; (c) those consisting of phosphates of lime, which are pale- brown, or gray, smooth, and polished; or of ammoniaco-nmgnesian phosphates, brilliant white in color, studded with crystals; or the fusible, a compound, of the two foregoing, grayish-white, of large size, and comparatively light. If the urine be acid, changing litmus-paper red, vegetable diet; if alkaline, changing turmeric-paper brown, an animal diet must be enforced. Cheese, acid drinks, and sour fruit favor the uric acid deposit. Phosplmtic urine denotes organic disease of the kidney or bladder; its treament is tedious, ami usually difficult. 4. Calculus m the kidney is often accompanied by pain and inflammation of the kidney, with turbid or bloody urine; Aconite, Cantha- rit, Canuabu. Calefaciants, substances, as mustard or pepper, which produce warmth when applied to the skin. Calenture, a wild delirium, accompanied by a wild desire to jump into the sea, by which sailors in the tropics are sometimes attacked. To be treated as inflammation of the brain, by Veratrum rirule, Belladonna, Gelseminum. Caligo, a speck on the cornea, or dimness of sight arising from it. Calisthenics (/ic, beautiful; atlemf, strength), the science of developing by regulated movements, grace, and vigor of body. Calix, a flower-cup; also a small, cup- like canal in the interior of t...