A guide to the examination of the urine : intended chiefly for clinical clerks and students / by J. Wickham Legg.

  • Legg, J. Wickham (John Wickham), 1843-1921.
Date:
1870
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Credit: A guide to the examination of the urine : intended chiefly for clinical clerks and students / by J. Wickham Legg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The froth on normal urine readily disappears; but if the froth be permanent, the presence of albumen, or of the constituents of the bile, may be ssospected. Before passing to the mechanical and chemical (examination of the urine, it may be well to state tthe apparatus and reagents which are necessary !for bedside investigation by the student. They are Cylindrical Urine Glasses, containing about 6 •fluid-ounces. A Urinometer, the stem of which is graduated ffroin 1000 to 1060. Blue and Red Litmus, nnd Turmeric, Paper. Test Tubes. A Spirit Lamp, or Bunsen’s Gas-burner. Nitric Acid. Acetic Acid. Liquor Potasses or Liquor Sodm. I Solution of Sulphate of Copper, 10 grains to lithe fluid-ounce. Fehling’s Test Solution for Sugar. Glass Funnel and Filtering Paper. I With this apparatus and these reagents, the ■student will be ablo to perform all the most im- portant reactions described below.