Milieu Intérieur

Dialysate sodium and the milieu intérieur.

The life-sustaining technology of maintenance hemodialysis attempts to accomplish in a dozen or so hours a week what the kidneys labor to do 24 hours per day: maintain the optimal composition and volume of body fluids. Claude Bernard’s insight in the 1800s about the milieu intérieur (“all of the vital mechanisms, however varied they may be, have always one goal, to maintain the uniformity of th...

Homeostasis, the milieu intérieur, and the wisdom of the nephron.

The concept of homeostasis has been inextricably linked to the function of the kidneys for more than a century when it was recognized that the kidneys had the ability to maintain the "internal milieu" and allow organisms the "physiologic freedom" to move into varying environments and take in varying diets and fluids. Early ingenious, albeit rudimentary, experiments unlocked a wealth of secrets ...

Milieu therapy.

Issues in milieu treatment.

By "milieu treatment" we refer to various aspects in the organization of a total treatment system that can facilitate improvement of patients. When we practice milieu treatment, we "treat" the organization as much as the individual. An understanding of this prevents the mistaken view of milieu treatment as an alternative approach to mental illness, competitive with somatic treatments or psychot...

The edentulous milieu.

D ental disease as a consequence of tooth loss has plagued mankind for several centuries. As a result prosthodontics and oral surgery justifiably boast of an ancient, if not always distinguished, heritage. The Phoenicians and Egyptians, for example, have left evidence of fixed prostheses that consisted of carved ivory teeth attached with gold wire to adjacent natural teeth. Few dentists appreci...