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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    instrument, they are found to consist of small oval vesicles containing in their interior minute granular corpuscles. At length, by the gradual increase in size of these granules, the vesicles expand, become tubular, and finally put forth small granular, bud- like projections, which enlarge and undergo the same change as their parent cells, so that the fun- goid, or confervoid vegetation has then a beaded or jointed appearance, and constitutes a thin pellicle on the surface of the fluid. Occasionally, however, these fungi appear to increase in a different manner, namely, by the bursting of the parent vesicles and the escape of the contained granular bodies, which eventually form themselves into fresh cells. When the vesicles have remained on the surface united together in the manner above described, for some little time, they separate and fall to the bot- tom in their original distinct state. 127. Vihnones, (66), have been met with in the pale, light urine of cachectic and debilitated persons. They are excessively small linear bodies, having an oscilating motion, but without any distinguishable organization. g. Non-Organized. 129. Albumen, (66), is by no means an imfrequent abnormal ingredient in urine, and in some cases is present in it in great abundance. It admits, generally speaking, of easy detection. 1