Aids to the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys / by W.R. Basham.

  • William Richard Basham
Date:
1872
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Credit: Aids to the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys / by W.R. Basham. 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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    Adventitious Objects often seen in the Urinary Sediments. These objects are derived from the fluff or floating dust of the bedroom. They are not visible to the unaide eye; they are essentially microscopic objects; they tall into the chamber vessel, and when urine is taken for examination from those vessels some one or more ot these adventitious objects are certain to be seen. \\ hen the urine is passed directly into an appropriate glass vessel, and immediately examined, these objects are not present; they frequently perplex the student, who may mistake some of them for pathological objects. Those most frequently seen are represented in Plate X. Plate X. ]?ig% i.—Hemp-fibre, derived from towelling, sheeting, &c. &c.; one or more mucous corpuscles. Fig. 2.—Cotton fibre, derived from various articles of dress ; two scales of epithelium from the urethra; two mucous corpuscles ; sporules of the Penicilium glaucum, con- stantly seen, after a certain interval, in albuminous urine. There is not much difference in the appearance of hemp from cotton fibre, except that the latter is moie delicately marked, and often present a ribbon-like flat- ness, as if folded on itself. Fig. 3.—Woollen fibre. This may be known by the delicate markings on the external sheath, and is, moreover, often coloured. The other objects are a scale from a moth s
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