A guide to the examination of the urine : designed chiefly for the use of clinical clerks and students / by J. Wickham Legg.

  • John Wickham Legg
Date:
1885
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Credit: A guide to the examination of the urine : designed chiefly for the use of clinical clerks and students / by J. Wickham Legg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    > > If albuminous, look with the microscope for: renal casts; (page 78.) pus corpuscles; (page 70.) red blood corpuscles, (page 72.) . Test the urine for sugar, (page 23.) I. If there be no albumen or sugar present, and no deposit, the urine need not be further examined, unless some special in- dication exist. VII. But if any sediment (page 54.) be ob- served, it must be examined with the micro- scope : the following enumeration of the more common deposits may help the stu- dent : Pink or reddish deposit, dissolved on heat- ing test-tube—urate of soda, (page 59.) White crystalline deposit, soluble in ace- tic acid with an iridescent scum on surface—phosphates, (page 63.) Hummocky white sharply defined cloud, insoluble in acetic acid—oxalate of lime, (page 61.) White amorphous flocculent deposit, ren- dered ropy by alkalies—pus. (page 70.) Brownish-red crystalline deposit—uric acid, (page 56.) Red amorphous deposit—blood, (page 72.)