This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In the great majority of these cases, an alkaline rather than an acid treatment is indicated, but when they occur in connection with oxaluria the acid should be given (Fuller). In rheumatic gout in cachectic subjects it is also serviceable.
 
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