URINE. 269 



In measles, which are considered by Schonlein as the most 

 highly-developed form of catarrhal disease occurring in the 

 northern hemisphere, the urine changes with the varying stages 

 of the disorder. In most cases it more or less resembles the 

 inflammatory type, it is red (as in inflammatory measles), acid, and 

 sometimes jumentous (as in gastric measles), or deposits a mucous 

 sediment during the course of the morning (as in catarrhal mea- 

 sles). Becquerel states, as the result of his observations, that 

 the urine is generally inflammatory at the commencement of 

 the febrile period. It becomes very dark and of high specific 

 gravity, and frequently deposits a sediment of uric acid : a 

 small quantity of albumen was found in a few of the cases. 

 During the eruptive period the character of the urine changes ; 

 if the eruption is slight, and there is not much fever, it resumes 

 the normal type ; if the contrary is the case, the urine retains 

 the inflammatory appearance. Becquerel did not meet with any 

 case in which the urine was turbid or sedimentary towards the 

 close of the eruptive stage. 



During the period of desquamation and of convalescence, the 

 urine either returns at once to the normal state, or continues 

 turbid and sedimentary for some time, or becomes pale, clear, 

 and ansemic. 



In three cases anasarca came on during convalescence, but 

 the urine did not contain albumen. 



During the catarrhal affection of the mucous membrane of 

 the stomach, or the status gastricus (as it has been called), which 

 when more fully established, becomes gastric fever, the urine 

 is generally more or less turbid, and earthy sediments appear 

 as symptoms of a crisis. 



Becquerel found that the urine in "Tembarras gastrique" 

 was often of a deep colour, and sedimentary, as in the phlo- 

 goses : sometimes, however, it hardly differed from the normal 

 secretion. Out of twelve cases, the urine in two scarcely differed 

 at all from the normal type, in the other ten it approximated 

 more or less in its characters to the urine of inflammation : the 

 deepness of the colour appeared to be always in relation to the 

 intensity of the disorder, and to the presence of some degree of 



