AND PHOSPHATES IN THE URINE IN DISEASE. 
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Table II. — On the amount of Sulphates and the total amount of Earthy and Alka- 
line Phosphates in some functional diseases of the brain, as delirium tremens and 
some other forms of delirium. 
Sulphate of baryta 
per 1000 grs. of urine. 
Specific 
gravity. 
Total phosphates. 
Case 1. Delirium tremens. 
6 til day 
5-74 
1017-9 
6th night. Death. 
Case 2. Delirium tremens. 
5 th clay 
13-34 
1018-0 
Case 3. Delirium tremens. 
3rd day 
10-60 
1023-94 
5-29 
Case 4. Delirium tremens. 
10 th day 
17-31 
1024-74 
0-87 
Case 5. Delirium tremens. Chloroform. 
8th day 
8-51 
1026-8 
Case 6. Delirium tremens. 
5th day 
20-77 
1037-8 
2-14 
5th night 
37-07 pink. 
1041-2 
5-95 
6th died. 
Case 7- Delirium tremens. 
Uncertain day 
2-96 
1013-2 
1-18 
Uncertain day 
7-83 
1021-6 
7-24 
Uncertain day 
8-61 
1022-0 
7-43 
Case 8. Delirium tremens. 
13th day 
13-10 
1037-4 
9-83 
14th day 
12-95 
1034-6 
8-89 
Case 9* Traumatic delirium tremens. 
3rd day 
1014-8 
1-97 
5th day 
8-45 
1028-0 
3-11 
6th day 
8-77 
1026-2 
6-23 
Case 10. Poisoned by laudanum, with de- 
lirium and excitement. 
2nd day 
7-83 
1026-8 
7-53 
3rd day 
6-78 
1023-0 
1-11 
Re-admitted again poisoned. 
1st day 
6-35 
1029-2 
8-88 
2nd day 
6-38 
1024-0 
8-24 
3rd day 
15-89 
1028-0 
4-22 
4th day 
13-01 
1026-0 
4-81 
6th day 
7-55 
1025-0 
4-42 
7th day 
8-22 
1026-3 
5-88 
Case 11. Delirium, with phthisis. 
4th day 
10-84 
1027-34 
1-44 
4th night 
6-97 
1024-2 
0-72 
7th day 
4-45 
1018-3 
1-51 
In the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th cases of delirium tremens the sulphates were 
found to be above the average. ‘ In the 6th case the sulphates are in the greatest 
quantity ever observed in health or disease. Sulphate of magnesia had also been 
taken by this patient, so that the amount of sulphates is partly owing to the medi- 
cine ; but that this is not the sole or chief cause of the increase is proved by the fact 
that many of the patients with other diseases took the same quantity of sulphate of 
magnesia, but the sulphates in the urine were never increased to the same amount. 
The phosphates, in seven out of the nine cases of delirium tremens, were below the 
average. The same fact was stated in my previous paper, but from the diminution 
