Case of white fibro-serous discharge from the thigh / by A.B. Buchanan, M.D.

  • Buchanan, Andrew Bogle.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Case of white fibro-serous discharge from the thigh / by A.B. Buchanan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seen slowly extending themselves at the expense of the granules round them; and when a drop was added to a little ether in a test-tube, it was wholly dissolved. I tested for milk-sugar, with every precautiou, but found no trace of it. I owe the following analysis of a pure milky specimen to the kindness of Professor Anderson. Opposite are placed some results of an analysis by Dr. Beale, of a case of chylous urine—white fibro-serous discharge from the kidneys—which, as will presently appear, I am inclined to regard as the same disease in another situation. Discharge Discharge from the skin. from tlie kiuneya Solid matter . 5-43 5-26 Water 94-57 94-74 Fatty matters •71 1-39 Albumen 2'88 1-3 Other organic matters . •6 1-94 Ash 1-24 •63 10000 100-00 III. Cases of the same affection. So far as I can ascertain, chronic wliite fibro-serous dis- charges from the cutaneous surface are extremely rare; indeed, I can only find three examples on record as occurring in temperate latitudes, a summary of which cannot, there- fore, be without interest, for the sake of comparison with the present case. 1. The first case, De lactis e femore fluxu,'^ occurred in a male subject, in Germany, during the seventeenth cen- tury, and is recorded at considerable length by Dr. L. Sigismund Grass^. The following are the principal features of his description.— ' Monstra dari in raedicina monstrat mon- strosissimus affcctus qui sequitur.' A working-man, forty- nine years of age, was seized in the autumn of 1G69 with an ' ' Ephemerides Germanise,* Jecur. i, ann, ix et x, Vratishivite et Bregse, 1860.
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