SBL Serum Anguillae

Description of SBL Serum Anguillae :- Whenever the kidney becomes acutely affected, either from cold or infection or intoxication, and the attack is characterized by retention of urine, kidney failure and albuminuria, we will find the eels serum eminently efficacious to re-establish diuresis, and in rapidly arresting albuminuria. When during the course of heart-disease, the kidney, previously working well, should suddenly become affected and its function inhibited; and when besides we observe cardiac irregularities and a marked state of asystolia (state of no cardiac activity), we may yet expect good results from this serum. But to determine here the choice of this remedy is not an easy matter. While digitalis presents in its indications, the well-known symptomatic trilogy : arterial hypertension, urine retention and oedema; the serum of the eel seems better adapted to cases of hypertension and urine retention, without oedema. We should bear in mind that the elective action of