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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    bladder (cystitis from any cause), pelvis of the kidney (pyelitis). The observer will also bear in mind the bursting of an abscess into the urinary pas- sages, perineal, peri-vesical, peri-renal. ih) Blood.—The presence of blood, even in very small quantity, impairs the transparency of the urine, and generally communicates a distinctive colour: a red- dish tinge, if the reaction of the urine is alkaline, or the quantity of blood is more than i of a per cent. ; and a dull smoky appearance, if the urine is acid, or the amount of blood is small. When the blood is of renal origin, the urine is usually smoky, and lets fall a dirty brown- ish deposit; but when otherwise, the urine is more distinctly red, and clots may be detected. Urine containing blood is always albu- minous ; and when coagulated the clot is brown-tinted. If the urine is muddy and dark—even as dark as porter or port wine, but devoid of the clearness of jaundiced urine of that depth of colour—and has let fall an abund-