A guide to urine testing : for nurses and others / by Mark Robinson.

  • Robinson, Mark (Mark A.)
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to urine testing : for nurses and others / by Mark Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fn some forms of disease the mine assumes a brownish black colour (]jorter- coloured urine). A peculiar smok)' ajipearance denotes the presence of blood, derived from the kidneys ; if present in large (|uantit\- the urine is rendered blood-coloured, and in this case the h;emorrhage doi.s not usually proceed Irom the kidnev, but from some other portion of tlx- urinary passages. .-V \-ello\vish gieen is indicati\e of the colouring matter of bile. This is liest seen b)- slightly tilting a white vessel con- taining urine, and looking through the edge fif the fluid at the wall of the vessel. Certain drugs, such as rhubarb, saffron, and santonin, will impart a reddish lint to urine, while sometimes carbolic acid applied to wotmds, or injcctctl into die vagina, becomes absorbed, and turns the urine a dark olive green.