224 THE SECRETIONS: 



In a man aged 60 years, who had emphysema with bronchitis, 

 the urine deposited a sediment, and had the high specific 

 gravity of 1025-6. After he had taken purgatives for seven con- 

 secutive days, the urine became very aqueous and the specific 

 gravity was only 1009*2. In two other cases in which emphy- 

 sema was combined with cough and dyspnoea, the specific gravity 

 was 1025-2 and 1022-2. 



Angina tonsillaris. 



In angina tonsillaris, when associated with synochal fever, 

 the urine presents the inflammatory type. Becquerel ob- 

 served a case in which the urine possessed the characteristics 

 of inflammation in a high degree. It was red, and had the 

 high specific gravity of 1029- 7. In another case, which was 

 combined with violent fever, the urine was dark-coloured, and 

 had a specific gravity of 1023-9. In neither of these instances was 

 there any sediment; but in the second case, on the seventeenth 

 day, an abscess which had formed in one of the tonsils opened 

 into the mouth, and on that day alone there was a spontaneous 

 sediment of uric acid, and the specific gravity rose to 1025-2. 

 In three other cases, in which the fever was not so high, the 

 specific gravity remained lower. 



Gastritis. 



Becquerel has made some observations on the urine during 

 gastritis, especially the chronic form. 



Of three cases, two got worse, and merged into the acute 

 form. The other case was unaccompanied by fever, and the 

 urine did not appear to differ materially from the normal type. 

 Of the two cases, one was that of a woman who was free from 

 fever at the period of her admission into the hospital. The 

 urine was pale and the specific gravity low. Continued fever 

 subsequently came on, and assumed a typhoid character. The 

 urine immediately became denser, darker in colour, and turbid 

 (urina jumentosa). After some time the patient returned to 

 her former state, and the urine again became clear. In the 

 third case, that of a man aged 35 years, chronic gastritis sud- 

 denly merged into the subacute form ; he had frequent bilious 



