Remarks upon chylous, or milky urine with an account of two cases of that disease / by C.E. Isaacs.

  • Charles Edward Isaacs
Date:
[1859?]
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Credit: Remarks upon chylous, or milky urine with an account of two cases of that disease / by C.E. Isaacs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f I Sa C. L.,) REMARKS UPON CHYLOUS, OR MILKY URINE; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF TWO CASES OF THAT DISEASE. BY C. E. ISAACS, M.D., One of the Surgeons of the Brooklyn City Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to the King's County Hospital, and to the Seamen's Retreat, Staten Island, etc. READ BEFORE THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OP MEDICINE, JUNE 15TH, 1859. ~X°>h%l I have been induced to submit to the profession, the fol- lowing remarks, in consequence of the great rarity of this disease, and its doubtful and unsettled pathology; and with the hope that the facts here recorded (some of which it is believed are new), may throw some light upon a subject which, at present, is involved in great obscurity. Both the cases about to be described, occurred at the Sea- men's Retreat, Staten Island, and were under the care of Dr. T. C. Moffat, Chief Physician of that Institution, who most carefully noticed the symptoms, and very kindly afforded me every facility of investigation, and all the assist- ance in his power. I beg leave here to return to him my sincere thanks, and also to his assistants, Dr. William K. Pobinson and Dr. I. M. Forshee, for their exertions in obtaining for me many interesting facts relative to the cases concerned. Peter Lopez, set. 26, born in Spain, was admitted into the Seamen's Hetreat, Staten Island, Nov. 13th, 1858, for an abscess of the scrotum. He stated, that about three years ago, while in Havana, he noticed that his urine was of the color of milk. He was at that time, as he believed, 6
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