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urine the acid was found always takinj^ the form of short, 

 stout, barrel-like crystals, with rounded sides and angles, or 



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III 



making approach to dumb-bell shape ; and the adjoined cut 



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illustrates very well the flattened tubular form in which 

 uric acid is deposited from diabetic urine. 



