A Text-Book of
Materia Medica.
(Characteristic,
Analytical, and Comparative.)
By Pr.
Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, M. D., PH. D., LL. D.
URANIUM NITRICUM.
(Uranii Nitras.)
Common name.- Nitrite of Uranium.
General Analysis.-
Chief action is upon the kidneys, where it causes a degeneration,
with albuminuria or glycosuria.It increases the total quantity and specific gravity of the urine,
and produces acridity, with mucous discharges and incontinence.
Its chief therapeutic application has been in the treatment of
diabetes (both mellitus and insipidus)
and in Bright’s disease.
Doctor Richard Hughes (1836-1902)Dr.
Hughes considers it best suited to
cases of diabetes originating in dyspepsia or assimilative
derangement, while Phosphoric
Acid is better
adapted to those of nervous origin.In this I can, from my own experience, fully concur.
Its most marked symptom is “
Great emaciation, debility, and tendency to ascites or
general dropsy.”Compare.- (Uranium nitricum)
Ars., Merc. cor., Arg. nit., Phos., Phos. ac.