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Cabot House: Byram J. Karanjai, Elizabeth R. Schemm and Joanne...
...thought that the format of the presentation really brought out the best of Chevy Chase's wit-and at the same time allowed him to sneak in a few insights," Elizabeth Schemm '04 said...
...time he left for Great Falls in 1933, Dr. Schemm knew what he wanted to do. Inspired by Dr. Louis H. Newburgh's work at Michigan on kidney function and water balance, Dr. Schemm came to the conclusion that it was probably all wrong to keep victims of edema (dropsy) on a low-water regimen. Dr. Schemm learned that many medical men had suspected that the way to get rid of the water in dropsy was to give more water, not less. Cautiously he began to test the theory on heart-disease patients bloated by dropsy...
Less Brine. Like Dr. Henry A. Schroeder (then at the Rockefeller Institute), with whom he corresponded, Dr. Schemm was soon sure that he was on the right track. The nub of his idea was that dropsy victims were not waterlogged, but brine-logged. Edema fluid, said he, is no more fit for the body to use than sea water. Excess sodium in the body, usually in the form of its chloride (common salt), takes large amounts of water to keep it in solution. Often its demands are so great that a dropsy victim is simultaneously suffering from a shortage...
...thing to do, Dr. Schemm decided, was to cut down the sodium taken in with food, to less than a gram a day (practicable only on a hospital diet). Thus, metabolic acids could take up the sodium already in the body, and give the kidneys enough water so that they could work properly and flush out the sodium salts through the urine-"using water as a medicine, which it is." By 1937 Dr. Schemm was telling Montana colleagues that his treatment was a success. "Restriction of water," he said, "is useless, harmful and a cause of suffering...