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NORMAN M. KEITH, M.D.; MARY WHELAN, M.A.; EDWIN G. BANNICK, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1930;46(5):797-832.

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Nitrates have long been recognized as effective diuretics. Thomas Willis,¹ in 1679, used potassium nitrate or "the salt of niter" in the treatment of dropsy. Jörg,² in 1825, administered increasing doses of potassium nitrate to a normal man and noted its diuretic effect. Wood,³ in 1856, confirmed the therapeutic action of nitrates, emphasizing the fact that an adequate dose was important in order to produce effective diuresis. Wilks and Taylor,⁴ in 1863, gave as much as 18 Gm. of potassium nitrate a day to a patient with renal dropsy, obtaining satisfactory results. About twenty-five years ago the toxicity of nitrates became a practical problem because of the rather extensive use of bismuth subnitrate in diagnostic roentgen procedures. Cases presenting methemoglobinemia were reported⁵ and consequently the possible toxic action of nitrates was overemphasized, with the resultant use of small and inadequate doses.

Our previous experiments⁶ and those of Gamble⁷ showed that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Division of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, April 15, 1930.

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