"Diuretic" Quotes from Famous Books
... neutral, except in excessive doses, or in combination with acids of varying medicinal action; thus, soda in nitric acid, nitrate of soda, is a diuretic, following the law of nitrates as nitrate of potash, a most powerful diuretic, nitrous ether, etc.; while soda in combination with sulphuric acid as sulphate of soda is aperient, following the law of sulphates, which increase aperient action, as in sulphate of ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various
... stimulant and diuretic; twenty to thirty grains. Externally, vesicant; used in form ... — Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings
... threw up their emetic, And thirty thousand muskets flung their pills Like hail, to make a bloody Diuretic.[420] Mortality! thou hast thy monthly bills: Thy plagues—thy famines—thy physicians—yet tick, Like the death-watch, within our ears the ills Past, present, and to come;—but all may yield To the true ... — The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron |