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Physician's Materia Medica on Phosphates
HYDRANGEAHYDRA
The root of HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENs, Lin. Diuretic. antilithic; in large doses cathartic. Prescribed with good results in renal colic, especially when due to deposits of phosphates.1
The root of HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENs, Lin. Diuretic. antilithic; in large doses cathartic. Prescribed with good results in renal colic, especially when due to deposits of phosphates.1
PHOSPHATES
Calcium Phosphate plays an important part in the animal econ omy in supplying the principal part of the solid framework of the body. Hence phosphates constitute an essential part of our food. In some diseased conditions the system fails to assimilate from the ordi nary food suflicient of these compounds to supply the daily waste, and in these conditions the deficiency must be made up by the use of chemicalfonds consisting of combinations of the phosphates of cal. cium, sodium, potassium and iron1
Calcium Phosphate plays an important part in the animal econ omy in supplying the principal part of the solid framework of the body. Hence phosphates constitute an essential part of our food. In some diseased conditions the system fails to assimilate from the ordi nary food suflicient of these compounds to supply the daily waste, and in these conditions the deficiency must be made up by the use of chemicalfonds consisting of combinations of the phosphates of cal. cium, sodium, potassium and iron1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.