Brooklyn medical journal. . e milk has thefurther advantage of being an ideal food. Among the artificial diuretics digitalis is probably as efficientas any (they are all notoriously unreliable) and increased effectmay be gained by adding acetate of potassium in twenty-graindoses. Bitartrate of potassium has a diuretic action, and is said tolessen albuminuria. Both of these salts are extensively used in thetreatment of chronic nephritis in spite of the theoretical importanceof potassium salts in the pathogenesis of uraemia. If the patient should react to the general treatment I have in-dicated
Brooklyn medical journal. . e milk has thefurther advantage of being an ideal food. Among the artificial diuretics digitalis is probably as efficientas any (they are all notoriously unreliable) and increased effectmay be gained by adding acetate of potassium in twenty-graindoses. Bitartrate of potassium has a diuretic action, and is said tolessen albuminuria. Both of these salts are extensively used in thetreatment of chronic nephritis in spite of the theoretical importanceof potassium salts in the pathogenesis of uraemia. If the patient should react to the general treatment I have in-dicated and be able to resume the duties of life, she should becautioned against overwork, exposure, the use of malt and spirit-uous liquors except in medicinal doses, and all dietetic imprudences. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Robert Saunby, Lectures on Brights Flint, Practice of Medicine. Delafield and Prudden, Hand-book of Pathological Anatomyand Histology. Reference Hand-book of the Medical , Klinische Arc. Jt-c. *c. Was born on the small island of Little Vandyke in the West Indies, in 1744. and when but six years of agewas sent to England to be educated. He was consigned to the care of Mr. Fothergill, a well-known preacheramong the Society of Friends, who intended, when the boy had reached the proper age and experience,to assign him to the care of his brother, the celebrated London physician, who was then at the height ofhis wonderful career. After receiving a slight preliminary education, he was apprenticed to a Yorkshire apothecary namedSutcliff. Dr. Lettsom. in a letter to a friend, tells the story* of his introduction to his new home. I wentto Settle, an apprentice, a fatherless lad. I rode from the house of Samuel Fothergill, at Warrington, alone;and my guardian, when he parted with me, impressed upon my mind his last words: 1 Please thy master,and, above all, f lease thyself. If thou tumest out well, I will recommend thee to my
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