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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Credit: 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. 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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    in the minority. The more the epithelium predominates in such a thread, the nearer the process is to a cure. Thus, the microscopic examination of these fibres has a certain significance in this respect. The suppm-ation of the urethra, as far as the compressor urethra, is also dis- FiG. 2.—A so-called gonorrhceal thread, consisting of pus-corpuscles and urethral epithelium. tinguished by the fact that when the patient urinates half his m-ine in one glass, the remailider in a second glass, only the first half will appear dim, while the second half of the urine will be found clear and trans- parent. That is to say, the urethra is freed from its se- cretion at the beginning of the urination, the urethra is completely washed out by the forcible stream, and con- sequently the secretion of the urethi*a is found in the first half of the urine, while, if no more secretion be present in the urethra, the urine passed later must ap- pear always clear and transparent. As already noted, this form of pyuria is found with