On a haematazoon inhabiting human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases.

  • Timothy Richards Lewis
Date:
1872
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Credit: On a haematazoon inhabiting human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases. 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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    be obtained; but when longitudinal sections were sub- jected to microscopic examination, numerous translucent oil-like tubules of a somewhat varicose appearance could be observed running alongside the uriniferous tubes as if the lymphatics or minute blood vessels of the part had become plugged. These sections when placed in boiling ether, and afterwards subjected to pro- longed maceration in it, did not appear to be materially afiPected by the process—the translucent oil-like tubules being quite as evident as before. 'No other morbid changes could be detected as bavins; taken place in either the The kidneys and ^ Sataed^'nSr'oul tubukr or cortical tissue of the Hsematozoa. i > -, -i , • ' o i. kidneys, but m every iragment, no matter from what part of the kidneys removed, numer- ous microscopic Pi]arise were invariably obtained, if the tissue had been properly teased, precisely analogous to those which had been detected in the blood and in the urine during life. Teased fragments of the supra- renal capsules yielded similar specimens. On slitting open any portion of the renal artery, from its entrance into the kidney as far inwards as I was able to follow its ramifications, and gently scraping its inner surface Avitli a scalpel, numerous Hsematozoa could always be obtained. The renal vein when similarly examined also yielded specimens of the Pilarise, but they did not seem to be so numerous in it. The vessels themselves did not appear to be diseased, and such of the branches as could be seen with the naked eye did not strike me as being