UREA.
Authorities.
1,
G. F. Collier, M.D. Lancet, 1845 (2), p. 503, a man suffering from an
eruption drank, in the morning, the urine he had passed the night
before, for nine days; 2, Prof.
Mauthner, Journ. de Kinderkrankheiten, 22, 1854, p. 1, experiments with
urea in cases of dropsy.►
Face very much swollen, [1]. ►
Anasarca generally more prominent in the upper than in the lower parts
of the body, [1]. ► Fluid in the abdomen and in the parietes
of chest and belly, swelling, however, greatest in the upper parts, [1]. ►
Urine scanty, thick, deep brown, and very offensive, [1]. ►
Heaviness of the head, increased on stooping, and his own words are,
that he feels too heavy for work, having neither his usual life nor
warmth in him, [1]. ► Little thirst, [1]. ► Pulse
under 90, [1]. ► Countenance pale; expression heavy and
vague, [1]. ►
He walks with a stick, because, he says, he feels the want of support, [1]. [10.]
► Loses his breath if he walks quick,
and is obliged to stop, [1]. ► Profuse diuresis, with rapid diminution
of the dropsy. Case of a boy, æt. seven years, suffering from dropsy:
diminished urine, passed frequently; albuminuria; bloody urine; abdomen,
twenty-one inches round; scrotum, feet, and back œdematous; heart’s
action irregular, intermittent, 68, with sighing; attacked with violent
convulsions. Took two grains of Nitrate of urea in three doses, at
intervals of two hours. The urine became as clear as water; the albumen
diminished; the dropsy diminished. On the second day the albuminuria
disappeared, and the patient was perfectly well without any other
medicine. Case of a girl, six years old, who was delirious, had
nosebleed; urine brown, very albuminous; œdema of the pudenda; dropsy
of the abdomen; pulse small and slow, 88; attacks of suffocation. Gave
Urea as before. The urine increased, the swelling disappeared, and after
ten days there was no longer any trace of albumen in the urine, and the
child recovered perfectly, [2].® 2000
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