Uric acid : an epitome of the subject / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Uric acid : an epitome of the subject / by Alexander Haig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    over their meat-eating and tea-drinking opponents. Again, by means of drugs, the temperatures in the mouth and rectum can be made to approach or diverge from each other according as uric acid is diminished or increased in the blood. The third means by which the amount of uric acid in the blood can be ascer- tained is by measuring the blood pressure, but I need not go into this again. The fourth is the blood decimal, which, as I have shown, varies from morning to evening with the amount of uric acid in the blood. The fifth is the quantity of water passed in the urine, and this is controlled by the amount of colloid uric acid blocking the renal capillaries. Hence the renal excretion of water is the index of the amount of uric acid in the blood ; the water increasing when uric acid falls, and diminishing as uric acid rises. The sixth means is the amount of uric acid in the urine, which again is always more in the morning hours and less in the evening hours. The seventh is the