On the analysis of the blood and urine, in health and disease : and on the treatment of urinary diseases / by G. Owen Rees.

  • Rees, G. Owen, (George Owen), 1813-1889.
Date:
1845
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Credit: On the analysis of the blood and urine, in health and disease : and on the treatment of urinary diseases / by G. Owen Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    DESCRIPTION OF MICROSCOPICAL FIGURES REPRESENTED ON THE PLATE. 1. Monobasic ammoniaco-magnesian phosphate in prismatic crystals ; the forms derived from the right rectangular prism, observed generally in neutral or slightly acid urine, sometimes also in slightly alkaline urine. 2. Bi-basic ammoniaco-magnesian phosphate, formed in speci- mens of urine which are strongly alkaline. 3. Lithic acid in various forms, prismatic, rhomboidal, and lozenge-shaped. 4. Lithate of magnesia in prismatic crystals. When occurring in groups or tufts this is often mistaken for lithate of lime, but may be distinguished by the crystals being truncated, while those of lithate of lime have an acicular form. 5. Lithates of ammonia and other bases. 6. Lithate of lime in tufts and acicular crystals. 7. Cystine in hexagonal plates. 8. Hippuric acid in four-sided prisms. 9. Oxalate of lime in octahedral crystals and other forms.* 10. Pus corpuscles. 11. Epithelium. 12. Mucous corpuscles, with tubes of albuminous matter; first described by Simon as existing in albuminous urine. 13. Milk corpuscles. 14. Seminal animalculse, occasionally observed in the urine, sometimes in connection with traces of albumen. 15. Torulse, observed in diabetic xirine during fermentation. 16. Blood corpuscles. The largest and lined figure represents one of the fibrinous corpuscles as seen in the blood. The red corpuscles are represented thicker than when viewed float- ing in liquor sanguinis, having undergone endosmodic change by contact with the urine. * As described by Dr. Bird.