Experiments and observations on albuminous fluids / [B.G. Babington].

  • Benjamin Guy Babington
Date:
1837]
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Credit: Experiments and observations on albuminous fluids / [B.G. Babington]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, too, it is difficult to conceive any combination more smooth and slippery than are those containing a free alkali. Liniments and soaps are the compounds to which we have recourse, when we wish to obtain these qualities in the highest degree. In the albuminous urine of renal dropsy I have endea¬ voured in vain to obtain, by the addition of alkalies, any approach to ropy mucus; but whether this is owing to some counteracting tendency in the other constituents of the urine, or to some alteration in the albumen itself, or whether the proportion is too small to render its viscidity palpable, I have not ascertained. To obviate the last cause of failure, I have concentrated such urine, by evaporation, at a temperature too low to produce coagulation ; yet still I had no better success.
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