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Title: Kidney diseases, urinary deposits, and calculous disorders : their nature and treatment
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Beale, Lionel S. (Lionel Smith), 1828-1906
Subjects: Kidneys Urinary organs Urine Kidney Diseases Urinalysis Urinary Calculi
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston

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r, for the operation frequently increases the haemorrhage andadds to the distress the patient already suffers. In cases in which theblood has coagulated within the bladder and especially if the haemor-rhage continues, the practice of introducing an instrument to break upthe clot, and the injection of iced water has been recommended.Dr. Prout injected into the bladder a solution of alum (20 to 40 grainsin a pint of water) and says that by this proceeding he succeeded instopping violent haemorrhage from the bladder which had resisted othermethods. Intermittent Hematuria.—Cases of the so-called intermittent haema-turia often improve under large doses of quinine, but some do notseem to derive advantage from any plan of treatment yet tried. Thecondition is probably often connected with gout, and sometimes withague, and although it may last a year or two, it generally passes off. Seea paper by me in No. 2 of the Practitioner, p. 73, July 1868. I have URINARY DEPOSITS.Pig. 18S. LATB XXXIV.
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W6l. otJM^r; •:.«lGu VS5 Tub srcle corpuscles frort i a tubercle i n the lur lg. p. 391. x 215 Cells found in the urine ofa case of renal dropsy. p. 395. rual secretion, p 388. (To face page 392 CANCER CELLS. 393 never had an opportunity of examining the kidneys of a patient who diedwhilst suffering from this affection. Circular Sporules closely resembling Blood Corpuscles.—Occasionallythe sporules of fungi are found in urine which very closely resemble bloodcorpuscles in size, and also in their general appearance. (Archives ofMedicine, vol. II, p. 49.) Upon very careful examination, however,with a high power, a little eminence, which is the first commencementof the formation of a new sporule from the parent, may frequently be ob-served projecting from them. Not unfrequently two sporules may beseen together, one having grown from the other. Some round sporules, re-sembling blood corpuscles, are represented in pi. XXXIII, fig. 183. Theyvary in size more than blood corpuscles. Some

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