See also:

• UROTROPIN (hexamethylenetetramine)

UROTROPIN (hexamethylenetetramine)  , known also in the See also:

• UNITED

United States under the name Uritone, a medicinal preparation due to the See also:

• ACTION

action of See also:

• AMMONIA (NH3)

ammonia on formaldehyde . It consists of colourless granular crystals freely soluble in See also:

• WATER

water and having an alkaline reaction . See also:

• UROTROPIN (hexamethylenetetramine)

Urotropin is among the most powerful of urinary See also:

• ANTISEPTICS (Gr. avrl, against, and 6177rrnKor, putrefactive)

antiseptics . It was formerly thought that its action was due to the setting See also:

• FREE

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 See also:

• ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid in cases where it is alkaline, loaded with See also:

• PHOSPHATES

phosphates or purulent, and is thus useful in cases of cystitis . It is slightly diuretic . Experimentally it has been shown to have a solvent action on uric acid, but its action in this direction in the See also:

• BODY

body requires See also:

• CONFIRMATION (Lat. confirmatio, from confirmare, to establish, make firm)

confirmation . Urotropin is very valuable in sterilizing the urine of patients who have suffered from typhoid See also:

• FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever and thus preventing the spread of the disease by what are known as " typhoid See also:

• CARRIERS

carriers." Analogous See also:

• XXV11

xxv11 . 26preparations are cystamine, helmitol and hetralin . Chinotropin is urotropin quinate, and borovertin is urotropin triborate .