Pyuria, or, Pus in the urine, and its treatment : comprising the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic urethritis, prostatis, cystitis, and pyelitis ... / by Robert Ultzmann : translated by permission by Walter B. Platt.

Date:
1884
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    of the urinary tract, or from the papillary * layer of the kidney itself, and they then take on a cylindrical form. From the character of the epithelial cells imbedded, in these cylindrical casts, for example, whether covered with renal epithelium or spermatozoa, we derive in cer- tain cases further information as to the source of the pus. Pus, as passed with the urine, may come from the most diverse portions of the urinary tract. We can de- termine the following regions of its origin by the man- ner of urination itself, or by the more exact micro- scopic and chemical examination of the urine : 1. Pus arising from any part of the urethra, from the meatus to the compressor urethrsa. 2. Pus arising from the neck of the bladder or the prostatic part. 3. Pus arising from the bladder. 4. Pus arising from the pelvis of the kidney and the kidney itself. * These must not be confounded with the gonorrhocal threads to be described further on, and which are merely urethral epithelium rolled up into cylinders visible to the naked eye.