Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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senco of wliicli will be more or less easily detected. Tla& circumstances, therefore, with regard to albumen are com- pletely analogous to those of many other normal constituents of urine (sugar, oxalic acid, pyrocatechin, &c.), which are found, under physiological conditions, sometimes in infini- tesimally small quantities, and sometimes in larger proportion and therefore more easily detected. I refrain from entering into further particulars, inasmuch as in the monograph already alluded to I have discussed at some length other circumstances which, even in the normal state, may conduce to the appearance of large and easily detectible quantities of albumen in the urine, that is to say, may set up a physio- logical albuminuria. I have also in that treatise explained the influence of changes in the renal circulation and of other pathological conditions.