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:
1869
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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 University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    White crystalline deposit, soluble in acetic acid—tri- ple phosphates, (page 31). White amorphous floculent deposit, rendered ropy by alkalies—pus, (page 34). Brownish red crystaline deposit—uric acid, (page 27). Eed amorphous deposit—blood, (page 35). PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. The Fhysicixl Examination is the application of the senses, unaided, to the investigation of the urine: not much, however, can be learnt from this mode of observa- tion, the only points which can be made out are the colour, translucency, odour and consistence. Colour. This may vary in disease from a point where the urine is almost as colourless as water, to where the urine is dark brown black: a smoky tint is absolutely diagnostic of the presence of blood, a brownish green suggests the presence of the colouring matter of the bile : many drugs give a pecuHar colour to the m-ine, as rhubarb and saflfron. Translucency. In health, the m-ine deposits, after re- maining at rest for a short time, a slight cloud of mucus, derived from the bladder: but in all other respects, healthy ui'ine is perfectly clear. On cooling however, it may some- times become turbid from the presence of m-ates, which are distinguished from other deposits by their appearmg alter the cooling of mine which was perfectly clear when