Annals of medical history . sbased was printed in Venice in 1782, andwas obtained from the collection of Dock, to whom I am indebted forvaluable suggestions in preparing this study. In this work he ascribes sciatica to adropsy of the dural sheaths of the roots ofthe sciatic nerves and discusses at length the nature of the cerebrospinal fluid. Priorto his time it had been thought that thefluid in the subarchnoid was a post-mortemartefact, the space being filled during lifewith vapor or a mere prove that this was artefact his oppo-nents had stated that the spinal f
Annals of medical history . sbased was printed in Venice in 1782, andwas obtained from the collection of Dock, to whom I am indebted forvaluable suggestions in preparing this study. In this work he ascribes sciatica to adropsy of the dural sheaths of the roots ofthe sciatic nerves and discusses at length the nature of the cerebrospinal fluid. Priorto his time it had been thought that thefluid in the subarchnoid was a post-mortemartefact, the space being filled during lifewith vapor or a mere prove that this was artefact his oppo-nents had stated that the spinal fluid wasnot coagulable by heat, while that obtainedfrom the ventricles of the brain was coagula-ble. Cotugno found that in most of hisexperiments, as in those of Bellinius, Brun-nerus, Boerhaave and de Haen, the fluid ofthe ventricles, like that of the spinal cord,evaporated entirely, without forming anycoagulum. He attributed his critics resultsto their having obtained the ventricularfluids from hydrocephalics and gave the. Tin; ;ri()\ i \ W i< k iuh ihi m Am 111 £I«s lixERCITATIONKS PrACTICAI; Circa Medendi Metiiodum, OnsERVAiioNiuus Illustra-TAi:, 1673. following discussion of inllaininatoryexudates: Thus I shall show thai all ihc humors of thebody which, when secreted naturally from theblood, arc not coagulable, froc|iicntly become Some Eakly Observers of Albuminuria 289 coagulable from serious disturbances. I shallbegin with urine, which everyone knows is notcoagulable but which was seen to coagulatein those experiments of ours which I am aboutto describe. A soldier, twenty-eight years old, wasstationed for many years at mild and very damp
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