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UROTROPIN (hexamethylenetetramine) , known also in the United States under the name Uritone, a medicinal preparation due to the action of ammonia
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antiseptics . It was formerly thought that its action was due to the setting free of formaldehyde in the urine, but it is now known by the researches of P. Cammidge that this is not so. It is used to render the urine acid in cases where it is alkaline, loaded with phosphates
body
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fever and thus preventing the spread of the disease by what are known as " typhoid carriers." Analogousxxv11
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