. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . five years the dailyamount is 180 grains ; at twelve, 320 ; at twenty-one, 535, and at fortyyears, 555 grains. A large man will excrete absolutely more than a small man, and alarge muscular man will excrete relatively more than a fat man of thesame height. The excretion of urea is increased in fever and inflammatory diseases ; ESTIMATION OF UREA. 633 in diabetes mellitus and insipidus; in malaria, pernicious ansemia, andafter a crisis in pneumonia. It is increased also by certain beverages,as coifee, and by many drugs, e
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . five years the dailyamount is 180 grains ; at twelve, 320 ; at twenty-one, 535, and at fortyyears, 555 grains. A large man will excrete absolutely more than a small man, and alarge muscular man will excrete relatively more than a fat man of thesame height. The excretion of urea is increased in fever and inflammatory diseases ; ESTIMATION OF UREA. 633 in diabetes mellitus and insipidus; in malaria, pernicious ansemia, andafter a crisis in pneumonia. It is increased also by certain beverages,as coifee, and by many drugs, especially those which act as hepaticstimulants. It is diminished in all forms of nephritis, especially when unemiaresults ; in acute gout and chronic rheumatism ; in disease accompaniedby emaciation and cachexia; in leprosy, pemphigus, melancholia, im-becility, catalepsy, hysteria, and cholera. (Saundby.) Estimation of Urea. For the methods employed in the exact quan-titative estimation of urea the student is referred to special works onthe urine. Fig. 2-22. Fig.
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