On bedside urine-testing : a clinical guide to the observation of urine in the course of work / by Geo. Oliver.

Date:
1885
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Credit: On bedside urine-testing : a clinical guide to the observation of urine in the course of work / by Geo. Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the urine contains organic constituents. Albuminous, mucous, or bloody urine may remain for some time hazy from this cause. The colour of the turbidity varies from a fawn to a flesh tint (see p. 42). It is characteristic of urines which deposit lithates, to provide on standing a bluish scum on the surface, best seen at the sides. Urines that let fall red-tinted urates generally contain indican (see p. 22). The clinical significance of a turbidity due to amorphous urates may be nil, as when it arises from concentration of the urine, and an increase of the acidity : as from violent exercise with perspiration, from abstinence from fluids, or from a bihous attack, or from cold weather; when it is only occasional. When frequent or persistent and of a flesh-tint (lateritious)^ there may be fever (inflammatory or not), organic disease, or some cause of rapid wasting of tissue. (h) Plios!»!ii58S<es (eayiliy.)—Every now and then the reader will come across a urine which when voided is milky, but