A guide to the examination of the urine in health and disease, for the use of students / by Alfred Markwick.

Date:
1847
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Credit: A guide to the examination of the urine in health and disease, for the use of students / by Alfred Markwick. 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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    or less of the characteristic appearances above des- cribed as peculiar to each substance. The whitish ropy deposit of lithate of ammonia (90), is liable to be mistaken for the sediment occurring' under these circumstances. It may, however, be distin- guished by disappearing when the urine is heated. 122. Urine voided in an alkaline state may be owing, (and I have had frequent opportunities of verifying the fact) to its having undergone some change or decomposition in the bladder in conse- quence of some morbid or inflammatory condition of this viscus, either originating in it or the result of some derangement of the parts anterior to it, as stricture of the urethra, for instance, and en- larged prostate; or to its having been secreted in that state, and constituting then, according to Kayer, a symptom of chronic nephritis. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, to distinguish between these two classes of cases, and the only way of doing so is to draw oflF the urine, then to wash out the bladder, and examine the fluid that is next secreted. 123. Besides the pus and mucus globules already described, the urine occasionally contains others for which Dr. Bird has proposed the name of Organic Globules. They are of two kinds, the large and small. The former difter from the pus and mucus particles only in the fluid in which they float not possessing the albuminous properties of the Liquor