AND PHOSPHATES IN THE URINE IN DISEASE. 
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In these acute diseases, except after sulphate of magnesia, the amount of sulphates 
was not found above the average. The amount both of phosphates and sulphates 
appeared not to be influenced by these diseases. 
Table VI. — On the amount of Sulphates and the total amount of Earthy and Alkaline 
Phosphates in Chronic Diseases, in which neither the nervous nor muscular struc- 
tures are chiefly affected. 
Sulphate of baryta 
per 1000 grs. of urine. 
Specific 
gravity. 
Total phosphates. 
Case 1. Exostosis 
1-75 
1016-6 
Case 2. Exostosis 
7-09 
1023-4 
6-03 
Case 3. Exostosis 
9-08 
1026-4 
11-58 
Case 4. Diabetes 
7-45 
1025-2 
3-94 
Case 5. Diabetes 
4-21 
1030-2 
0-91 
Case 6. Diuresis. Albumen 
0-49 
1003-6 
1-09 
0-89 
1005-36 
1-49 
Case 7. Obstruction of the oesophagus. Albumen 
1-38 
1012-2 
4-70 
Case 8. Aneurism of aorta? 
6-03 
1017-8 
2-39 
Case 9. Obstruction of the bowels. Sulphate of magnesia. 
8th day 
22-55 
1024-3 
3-51 
9th. Died. 
Case 10. Excessive oxalate of lime 
7-89 
1025-5 
6-14 
Case 11. Indigestion. Alkaline from fixed alkali 
3-26 
1024-7 
3-65 
Case 12. Chronic rheumatism. After sulphur 
5-85 
1011-82 
4-86 
Case 13. Chronic rheumatism 
7-93 
1023-44 
Case 14. Chronic gout. Vichy water 
10-04 
1025-8 
5-26 
In these chronic diseases nothing remarkable was observed as to the amount of 
sulphates or phosphates, excepting in case 3 of exostosis, in which the amount of sul- 
phates and of phosphates was above the average. 
In case 9, of total obstruction of the bowels, sulphate of magnesia was given fre- 
quently during the day in small doses : nothing passed through the intestine. The 
whole of the sulphate was absorbed, and hence the great increase in the sulphates in 
the urine. 
In a patient, case 14, who was taking Vichy water, the sulphates were observed to 
be slightly above the average. 
The conclusions I have drawn may be thus enumerated : — 
Table I. In three cases of acute chorea the most remarkable increase was observed 
in the amount of sulphates in the urine. In the same cases the quantity of urea was 
very much increased. The quantity of urine made in twenty-four hours was not ex- 
cessively diminished, and the total amount of earthy and alkaline phosphates was 
below the average amount. 
The general conclusion was, that in acute chorea the amount of sulphates in the 
urine is increased, whilst sometimes the phosphates are as remarkably diminished. 
Table II. In delirium tremens and in other delirium a remarkable increase in the 
amount of sulphates in the urine was frequently observed, and the total phosphates 
were in the same cases occasionally remarkably diminished ; and the resemblance to 
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