Clinical Aspects of Mercurial Diuretics

Clinical aspects of mercurial diuretics.

A Comparison of the Mercurial Diuretics Used in Heart Failure.

Digitalis is without equal in the treatment of heart failure in mitral stenosis with auricular fibrillation, though diuretics may also be needed. But when heart failure occurs with normal rhythm, as in hypertension, mercurial diuretics usually prove more successful than digitalis in increasing the urinary output, in lessening pulmonary congestion, and in relieving dyspncea. Since the circumstan...

Famine Œdema and Its Treatment with Mercurial Diuretics

The effect of mercurial diuretics on the excretion of water.

In experiments on 11 normal subjects and on three dogs it has been observed that mercurial diuret-ics do not prevent the stimulation of water absorption and formation of hypertonic urine which characteristically follows the infusion of Pitressin. Furthermore mercurial diuretics only rarely increase urine flow when administered in the course of maximal water diuresis. These two facts are interpr...

Clinical use of diuretics

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