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ACTION OF ALKALIES. 



Action of Alkalies. Alkalies, on the other hand, tend to 

 render formed material more permeable to fluids, and thus 

 facilitate the access of pabulum to the bioplasm. They are 

 often useful in cases where there is shrinking and wasting of 

 textures which in the normal condition consist principally 

 of bioplasm. Potash, soda, lithia, and their carbonates, as 

 well as the salts of many vegetable acids which become 

 converted into carbonates in the system, act beneficially in 

 this way, as well as by producing favourable changes of 

 other kinds. 



" La medecine est un art dont les progr&s sont en grande partie 

 dependants de ceux de la physiologic." 



MILNE-EDWARDS. 



