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

  • John Wickham Legg
Date:
1872
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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, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    is known for cerlniii of tlieir niiidunt in disease, ;uul that little is at present of not niueh inipoi-t- ance. The following table of the anionnt of urinary constituents excreted by a male adult in the 21- hours is com])iled from Dr. Parkes' book on the urine : Quantity Total Solids Urea Uric Acid . Chlorine Phosphoric Acid Sulphuric Acid 4() to -jO fluid ounces. S<I0 to 1000 o-rains. 350 to 600 o-rains. 5 to 15 o-rains. 50 to 150 o-rains. 30 to GO o-rains. 20 to GO o-i-ains. O In the adult, the hourly excretion of urine may vary from 20 to 200 C.C. In general, it is from 50 to 70 C.C. when much drink is taken, and 40 to GO C.C, when little is drunk. 1 kilogramme of body-weight, therefore, excretes about 1 C.C. of urine every hour. The urine is always diminished in quantity during the height of a pyrexial disease : a sign of improvement is the increase in the quantity of