Observations on the functional disorders of the kidneys, which give rise to the formation of urinary calculi : with remarks on their frequency in the county of Norfolk / by William England.

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[1830]
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Credit: Observations on the functional disorders of the kidneys, which give rise to the formation of urinary calculi : with remarks on their frequency in the county of Norfolk / by William England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he resides, abortions had become more prevalent, ajiparently from the extensive use of roasted grain, wheat or rye, as a substitute for coffee: this liappened before the virtues of the ergot were generally known to the profession. Some per- sons have such peculiar idiosyncrasies, that from eating some kinds of fruits, as walnuts, or par- ticular kinds of shell fish, an attack of urticaria will be sure to ensue. It has been long observed, that when a calcu- lous diathesis existed in any individual, together with a pre-disposition to a morbid irritability of the skin, a vegetable diet was found most bene- ficial inremoviogor alleviating those complaints. The chief objection to the almost exclusive em- ployment of a vegetable diet is the tendency which such alimentary matter has to undergo the acetous fermentation : this is sure to happen if the gastric juice or fluid naturally secreted by the stomach be deficient in quantity or depraved in quality : this fermentation, so unnatural in a healthy state of the stomach, is more immedi- ately prevented by the judicious use and admix- ture of animal food. A well balanced proportion of animal and ve- getable matter seems indeed most adapted for tlie purposes of nutrition, and for the prevention of that morbid irritation of the mucous mem- brane of the alimentary canal, which, when once D