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when the food is chiefly animal, and when therefore rich chyle is 

 poured into the blood faster than it can be assimilated. 



I lately saw a young married woman whose urine contained 

 very large coagula of chyle. She always dined at noon. In the 

 evening the coagula were white ; in the morning pale with pink 

 streaks. After fasting twenty- four hours at my request, the coa- 

 gula still appeared in the urine, extremely pale, and shewing more 

 pink streaks. She had been some months in this way, was in 

 very fair health, and had a great appetite, and perhaps some other 

 general symptoms of diabetes ; but there was no sugar in the urine. 

 Notwithstanding the fluid discharged seemed to present as much 

 coagulum as urine, the quantity of chyle proved on drying to be very 

 minute, and from its looseness to have been extremely distended 

 by the urine. As this was a state of disease, I draw no inference 

 from the case respecting the time necessary for the change of 

 chyle to blood. She would not allow me to take any blood from 

 the arm for observation. 

 Lymph is of a straw-colour and coagulates spontaneously. 



