Urinary deposits : their diagnosis, pathology, and therapeutical indications / by Golding Bird ; edited by Edmond Lloyd Birkett.

  • Bird, Golding, 1814 or 1815-1854.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Urinary deposits : their diagnosis, pathology, and therapeutical indications / by Golding Bird ; edited by Edmond Lloyd Birkett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m Dr. Garrod’s lectures before the College of Physicians have been printed since my remarks on diabetes were prepared; but, on con- sideration, I see no reason to alter or qualify what I have written on the subject. The use of the microscope is now so generally taught in the schools, that any attempt to urge its claims to attention might be out of place. But I say emphatically to our students : “ Do not neglect your opportunities ; in the hurry and labor of general practice, you will have little leisure to give to the study of the instrument, and without it you can but imperfectly fulfil your duty, either to yourselves or your patients.” Instances are numerous, where without its aid much knowledge would be missed, or greater errors committed. I may, however, mention one instance of late occurrence. A gentleman came to me one morning in a state of great excitement; he stated that on being called at night to micturate, it was some time before the urine began to flow, and that only after straining and the apparent removal of some obstruction. On looking into the vessel in the morning, he found a small reddish mass imbedded in the urates at the bottom; he secured and brought it to me. I put it under the microscope, and found at once that it consisted of fibre of voluntary muscle, and con- cluded that it had most probably been dislodged from between the teeth, and had been spit into the vessel. The gentleman left me disburdened of the idea of heematuria and calculus. Dr. Lionel Beale’s work on the microscope is, I believe, the best on the subject, and M. Pillischer, of New Bond Street, has manufac- tured an instrument which he calls his student’s microscope ; and in justice to him it ought to be known that he first brought within the student’s means a good instrument at a reasonable cost. In conclusion, a word is due to .the memory of the author. His time and his strength, both of body and mind, were given to the profession, and he reaped, as a natural consequence its highest Lards; but those who knew him best, felt that he had brighter hopes beyond, which supported him through a life of sickness, and comforted him at its close. 48 Russell Square, August, 1857.