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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
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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mthe urine ( Gazette Hebd. de M6d. et de Chir., 1859, p. 221; Journalde la Physiologie, No. VI, p. 344). In this case, the proportion ofsugar gradually diminished, and at the same time the quantity of ureaexcreted became less, while the inosite gradually increased in amountuntil upwards of three hundred grains of this substance were passed inthe twenty-four hours. This observation is one of great interest in con-nection with the pathology of diabetes. Acetone (C6H602).—Dr. Petters, at the suggestion of Dr. Lerch, ofPrague, sought for acetone in the urine in a case of diabetes, and dis-covered it both in the blood and urine ( Vierteljahrsch. fur die Pract.Heilkunde, Prag. 1857, vol. LV, p. 81). The peculiar smell ofdiabetic urine is to be attributed to the presence of acetone, accordingto this observer. CYSTINE. Cystine (CgHoNSoO^) is found in a state of solution in the urine insome cases, although it more usually occurs as a deposit. We shall, ILLUSTRATIONS OF URINE. Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
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Crystals of leucine from urine of a ca9e of leucocythemia x 215 p 27; (To face page 250. TAURINE—HYPOXANTHIN. 281 therefore, consider it more particularly under the head of urinarydeposits. Julius Miiller ( Archiv der Pharmacie) obtained someurine from a boy 6£ years of age, which contained cystine in solution.The urine was alkaline. The cystine was precipitated in the crystallineform by the addition of excess of acetic acid. Thoel mentions theoccurrence of cystine in the urine of many members of the samefamily (Liebig and Wohlers Annalenr 1856). Crystals of cystineare represented in Illustrations of Urine, pi. XII, fig. 6. See also Illustrations of Urinary Deposits in Part IV. Taurine (C4H7NS2O6) has been found in the urine of jaundice. Aiiantoin , (CgH^Os) has never been detected in human urine, butit was present in the urine of a dog into whose lungs oil had beeninjected by Frerichs and Stadeler. It may, perhaps, exist in the urineof young children (Parkes). It is always present

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