Experiments and observations on cutaneous absorption / by Reuben D. Mussey, M.D., of Massachusetts ; [from the Philadelphia medical and physical journal, conducted by Professor Barton.].

  • Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Dimond), 1780-1866.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Experiments and observations on cutaneous absorption / by Reuben D. Mussey, M.D., of Massachusetts ; [from the Philadelphia medical and physical journal, conducted by Professor Barton.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The urine, at succeeding intervals, had nothing pecu- liar in its appearance. EXPERIMENT IV. March 25, I continued three hours in the mndder- bath. Urine was drawn at the time I left the bah. and at the expiration of five, and of seven, and of fifteen hours afterwards. The first portion was pale, and un- usual in quantity. The second portion exhibited a deeper colour than had appeared in either of the pre- ceding experiments, and, with the sulphat, a very- strong purple-brown was produced. The third por- tion, or that taken seven hours after I left the bath, had a feeble tinge of red, and was acted upon in a small de- gree by the sulphat. The fourth portion was natural. Blood was drawn from my arm at the end of three, and again at the end of five hours after I left the bath. The different portions were suffered to stand unagitated until a separation had taken place. The serum was then carefully decanted off. No difference appeared in the two portions; each was opaque, and of a pale-red colour, slightly tinged with yellow. The sulphat add- ed to them produced a very slight change, but I am not positive that the purplish-brown appeared at all. In all the above experiments, the urinary bladder was emptied immediately before I entered the bath. The urine was uniformly pale, and, tested with the sulphat, exhibited none of the purplish tinge. In the first, se- cond, and fourth experiments, the bath, by the occa-