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Title: A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: New York : William Wood
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Fig. 4282.—1, Fern-leaf crystal of triple phosphate ; 2, common forms of the same.Amorphous phosphates in lower left, and neutral phosphate crystals in the upperright side of the field. (Peyer.) brown precipitate which rapidly changes if the urine isalkaline. The appearance of the blood-cells under themicroscope depends on the density and chemical reactionof the urine. They swell up, become globular, and aredifficult to detect in very light urines, but are crenatedand contracted in urines of high specific gravity. In al-kaline urine they are rapidly decolorized, look like hya- 438 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Urine.Urine. line rings, and require a well-regulated light for theiridentification. Urine containing pus has an opaque, milky appearance
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Fig. 4283.—Crystalline Neutral Phosphate of Calcium. (Peyer.) not accompanied by an excess of mucus, as is commonly the case with that from the bladder. The bursting of an abscess into the pelvis of the kidney, or in the urinary tract, causes a very sudden appearance of a large amount of pus. Small plugs or threads of mucus andpus-cells containing the rounded cellsfrom the prostate, are characteristic ofprostatic disease (Fig. 4280). Similarthreads are also derived from the urethralglands in old standing gonorrhoea, andmay be seen floating in the urine of suchcases after all other symptoms of the dis-ease have left. Epithelium found in urinary sedimentsmay be derived from any part of theurinary passages. Three or four varie-ties of cells are easily distinguished.Round cells may have been shed fromthe male urethra, the bladder, or theuriniferous tubules. They are abouttwice the size of pus-cells, have a singlenucleus visible without reagents, and areusually flattened. Columnar, oval,

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