Researches on albumen : with special reference to albuminuria / by Robert Kirk.

  • Kirk, Robert.
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[1881]
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    THE GLASGOW MEDICAL JOURNAL. No. V. May, 1881. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. RESEARCHES ON ALBUMEN; WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ALBUMINURIA. By ROBERT KIRK, M.D., Partick, Glasgow, Physician-Accoucheur to the Western Infirmary. (Read before the Medico-Chirurg. Society of Glasgow, fth February, 1881.) In the course of an investigation of certain properties of albumen, I was lecl to examine the comparative delicacy of our tests for it in urine. Some account of this will form the best introduction to what I shall have to lay before you on the general reactions of proteids. Considerable dissatisfaction has been expressed by various authors with regard to those tests. Dr. Roberts, of Manchester, more especially, has proved that even the nitric acid test in the cold is deficient in delicacy, although he considers it the best we possess for those cases in which it is applicable. He found that when he diluted an albuminous urine with water, he could trace the albumen further than when he diluted with normal urine.* Repeating this experiment, I found the same difference in the delicacy of the test in the two cases, and that it was frequently very considerable. Dr. Roberts attributes this to the presence of the solid ingredients of the urine, and no doubt this is so; but it appeared that there were some of these more especially concerned in this result than others. Passing over this in the * Urinary and Renal Diseases, pp. 123, 124. 2 A No. 5. Vol. XV.