Charcot's crystals in sputum containing a croupous cast (card specimen) ; Charcot's crystals in an alcoholic extract of a liver in a state of acute atrophy (yellow and red) (card specimen) ; Charcot's crystals in fæces (card specimen) / by Sheridan Delépine.

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
Date:
[1891]
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Credit: Charcot's crystals in sputum containing a croupous cast (card specimen) ; Charcot's crystals in an alcoholic extract of a liver in a state of acute atrophy (yellow and red) (card specimen) ; Charcot's crystals in fæces (card specimen) / by Sheridan Delépine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    on account of their colour were supposed to be some form of bilirubin usually absent from the intestine. Microscopical examination.—The following were all found in the two specimens examined:—!. Phosphate (triple and calcic); 2. Tufts of fine curved needles (fatty acids); 3. Small sheaves of prismatic crystals (probably tyrosin) ; 4. Fatty-looking rounded masses with concentric markings (probably leucin) ; 5. Bright orange-yellow colloid or resinous-looking masses, giving the reactions of bile-pigment (bilirubin); 6. Pale greenish-yellow masses, giving also the bile-pigment reaction; 7. Small plugs of mucus; 8. Fatty granules ; 9. Bacteria of all sorts very abundant; 10. Food debris and charcoal particles very abundant; 11. Typi- cal Charcot's crystals abundant all through the jSuid. January 20th, 1891.