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confirmed by Becquerel. Neither could Becquerel observe 

 ky stein. 



After delivery, mucus, tinged with blood, is mixed with the 

 urine ; this is succeeded by the discharge which is known as 

 the lochia. During the period that intervenes between deli- 

 very and the commencement of the milk-fever, the urine either 

 assumes the inflammatory type, and is scanty, high-coloured, 

 acid, and dense, as, for instance, in those cases in which the 

 labour has been very difficult and painful, and the vascular 

 system is much excited ; or it takes on the anaemic form, as in 

 those cases in which the labour is followed by great debility 

 and prostration. 



Becquerel gives two analyses : one was made with the urine 

 of a woman aged 33 years, who, the previous evening, had been 

 delivered of a dead child ; pulse 96, strong ; urine of a deep 

 red colour, acid, and sedimentary; the sediment was mixed 

 with sanguineous mucus, and there was a little albumen in the 

 urine. 



The second analysis was made with the urine of a woman 

 aged 22 years, who had been delivered forty-eight hours pre- 

 viously of a seven months dead child. Pulse 92, rather weak ; 

 urine was very red, and held in suspension a cloud of sanguineous 

 mucus and a considerable quantity of albumen. 



i. 2. 



Quantity of urine in 24 hours in ounces 30 26-5 



Specific gravity . . . 1012-6 1018-0 



1000 parts contained : 



Water 979-5 970-2 



Solid constituents 

 Urea . 

 Uric acid 

 Fixed salts 

 Extractive matters 

 Albumen 



20-5 29-8 



6-5 7-8 



0-5 0-5 



4-6 7-4 



9-5 10-6 



3-3 



We see from the ratio of the urea and also of the uric acid 

 to the solid residue, that the urine in neither of these cases 

 can be regarded as inflammatory, but that it rather approxi- 

 mates to the anaemic type. In the first analysis the urea 

 amounts to only 31 and the uric acid to 2'4 of the solid re- 

 sidue ; in the second analysis, the former amounts to 27 and 

 the latter to 2, 



