A treatise on Bright's disease and diabetes with especial reference to pathology and therapeutics / by James Tyson ; including a section on retinitis in Bright's disease by William F. Norris.

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1881
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Credit: A treatise on Bright's disease and diabetes with especial reference to pathology and therapeutics / by James Tyson ; including a section on retinitis in Bright's disease by William F. Norris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and shape, forming compound granule-cells and other forms of fatty cells. The oil-drops and fatty cells are seldom so abun- Fio. 27. Oil casts and fatty epithelium. dant that they form a closely packed mass constituting the cast, but they are more or less separated by the hyaline basis re- ferred to. Fatty casts in urine are apt to be accompanied by free oil-drops and free fatty cells, as sgen in Fig. 27. Fig. 28. Pale granular and hyaline casts, one of the latter of small diameter, protruding from a tubule in which the epithelium remains intact. A cast of the same tubule bereft of its epithelium would evidently be of larger diameter.—After Rindfleisch. Fifth, hyaline casts are the simplest form of cast. They are delicate, structureless, or almost so, and composed of the trans- parent substance already referred to. They are of different