Annals of medical history . se cream of tartar,whose effect in provoking urine, without acceler-ating the pulse, I have shown in other experi-ments. By this remedy the output of urine wasincreased so that the sick man passed ten or twelve pints of concentrated urine in a , since the sick man himself admittedthat his drinking had been very slight, it wascertain that the enormous quantities of urinewere being drawn especially from waters col-lected in the dropsy. Although this was shownby the decrease in the distention of the body,it seemed best to settle this question by adefinite
Annals of medical history . se cream of tartar,whose effect in provoking urine, without acceler-ating the pulse, I have shown in other experi-ments. By this remedy the output of urine wasincreased so that the sick man passed ten or twelve pints of concentrated urine in a , since the sick man himself admittedthat his drinking had been very slight, it wascertain that the enormous quantities of urinewere being drawn especially from waters col-lected in the dropsy. Although this was shownby the decrease in the distention of the body,it seemed best to settle this question by adefinite experiment, heating the urine. ForI had often conclusively shown that the lluidcollected beneath the skin of such dropsicalcadavers contained material capable of coagu-lation and I hoped that if the sick man passedsuch fluid by way of the urine, coagulationwould be seen if the material which flowed outwere heated; which, as I had anticipated, was DOMINICl COTUNNII PHIL. ET MED. E IS GUI ABE Airf NERVOSA V E N E T I I S, MDCCLXXXII. Typis Bart90i/om^j Occm (•SUPER 10 HUM P S K id IS SU, Title Page of De ischiade nervosa commentarius by DoMENICO CoTUGNO. proved by experiment. For with two pints of thisurine exposed to the fire, when scarcely halfevaporated, the remainder made a white mass,already loosely coagulated like egg albumen. .Thus it was shown for the first time that urine,which no one had shown to be coagulable itfrom healthy people, can at some time containa coagulable substance. 290 AnJiah oj Medical History He then discusses the iluids present inthe serous cavities and states that whennormally clear they are different from lymphin that they are not coagulable, as he hadshown often in cadavers and five times inthe pericardial fluid of living dogs, and asMalpighi had shown in the pericardialfluid of a live cow. Those fluids which didcoagulate were entirely different in char-acter, of a new color, concentrated andyellow and far from a pure watery
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