On a New Method of Testing for Albumen in Urine

Abstract

(perchloride of mercury and other substances), but I am convinced, as is also Dr. Cobbold, that this is a mere delusion ; because it is not po3sible to reach and kill with these injections the wormis which live prinicipally in the different branches of the portal system. The natural course of h.niaturia is not continuous ; the cessation of it for somile time is not cure; and it is not possible to obtain really a cure without getting rid of the worms fiom the organism. I do not say that it is impossible that we may find a substance that, introduced iInto the blood, may kill the worm witlhout endangering the life of the host ; yet I enitertaini the belief, expressed long ago, that the worms circulating with the blood, when dead, may prove more dangerous than when alive, as thev may become more easily the point of formation of clots and embolismns. But, apart from this, no substance can be of avail if it be not absorbed and diffused through the blood ; anid that very probably is not the case with substances introduced through the uriniary bladlder.Whoever has seen the pos, mortem alterations often produced in the walls of the bladder by the dispersion of the ova in their tissues, cannot believe in the usefulness of miiedicated injections to cure them.