URINE. 259 



to approximate to the urine in typhus. The amount of urea 

 was much less than in normal urine, not exceeding 25 302 

 of the solid residue. The fixed salts were diminished in the 

 urine of the men, forming 14 18g of the solid residue, while 

 in the woman they amounted to 27g, a little above the normal 

 average (25g). The uric acid was slightly above the healthy 

 standard in all the cases, ranging from 1 3 of the solid re- 

 sidue. The men rapidly improved under proper treatment ; 

 the urine became more abundant and clearer, and, in the course 

 of six days, was apparently normal. The woman recovered 

 more slowly. 



In a girl aged 20 years treated in Schonlein's clinical wards 

 for morbus maculosus Werlhofii, I found the urine, during 

 a period of a fortnight, of a dark brown colour, of a dis- 

 agreeable ammoniacal odour, and with an alkaline reaction. 

 It deposited a viscid sediment of earthy phosphates, urate of 

 ammonia, and mucus. The addition of nitric acid indicated 

 the presence of a small quantity of bile-pigment. Blood (of 

 which the composition is given in Yol. I, page 316) issued from 

 the mouth, exuding from red patches situated above the uvula. 

 The odour of the breath was putrid. During her recovery, the 

 urine returned to its original state. 



[The urine in this disease has likewise been analysed by 

 Heller and Martin. 



The two following cases are recorded by Heller : l 



1. A girl aged 19 years, marked over the whole body, was 

 admitted into the clinical ward of Professor Lippich. 



The urine was of an intensely yellowish-brown colour, rather 

 turbid, and deposited flocks of mucus. The odour, at first ordi- 

 nary, rapidly became ammoniacal ; and the same tendency was 

 observed throughout the course of the disease. Reaction faintly 

 acid. Specific gravity 1021. The urine contained in 1000 parts : 



Water ..... 949-28 



Solid constituents . . . . 50-72 



Urea ..... 16-21 



Uric acid ..... 1-27 



Extractive matters with much hydrochlorate of ammonia 23-24 



Fixed salts .... 9-80 



1 Archiv fur physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie, vol. 1, p. 12. 



