380 THE EXCRETIONS: 



1st Analysis : 7'06 grs. gave of HO 5-05 or H 7'95, C0 2 13-72 or C 53-OOg. 

 2d Analysis : 6-62 grs. gave of HO 4-77 or H 8-OOg, C0 2 12-93 or C 53-27g. 

 Incineration : 16-81 grs. gave of ash 2-96, or 17-60. 

 Mean C . . . 53-09^ 



5.0- : : 2 ^H 



Ash . . . 17-60-1 



5. " Faeces of a man (Roberts) 1 between 30 and 40 years, 

 labouring under diabetes of some standing. Diet, exclusively 

 animal, with the exception of a small quantity of bread. 

 1st Analysis: 4-53 grs. gave HO 3-07 or H 7'53g, C0 2 7'64 or C 45-99g. 

 2d Analysis : 5-33 grs. gave HO 3-67 or H 7'65, C0 2 8-92 or C 45'64g. 

 Incineration : 50-84 grs. gave of ash 10-77, or 2M8g. 

 Mean C . . . 45-81-. 



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Ash . . 2M8J 



6. " Faeces of the same individual, some weeks afterwards, 

 while on a mixed diet. At this time also he was much emaciated 

 and exhausted, in consequence probably of having been obliged 

 to work, and to subsist on a mixed diet. 



1st Analysis : 5-13 grs. gave of HO 3-36 or H 7'28g, C0 2 8-63 or C 45-88g. 

 2d Analysis : 4-86 grs. gave of HO 3-18 or H 7'27, C0 2 8-21 or C 46-07g. 

 Incineration : 32-31 grs. gave of ash 7'14, or 22-10$. 

 Mean C . . . 45-97-, 



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Ash . . . 22-lo 



In dysentery the stools are thin, contain flocculent mucus, 

 and are either almost colourless or milky, (dysenter. catarrh.) 

 or they are coloured red by blood (dysenter. inflammat.). Ac- 

 cording to Schonlein they possess a peculiar smell quite cha- 

 racteristic of the disease. 



On examining the white or slightly coloured mucous fluid 

 under the microscope, we observe numerous mucus- corpuscles 

 floating about in it : the red, sanguineous discharges also con- 

 tain an extraordinary number of mucus-corpuscles, numerous 

 blood-corpuscles, but no (or very few) epithelium-scales. 



We sometimes find pseudo-membranous portions of exuded 

 plastic lymph mixed with the stools, especially in the most in- 

 flammatory forms of the disease. 



1 Roberts's case has been published in the Medical Gazette. He has since died, 

 and the sequel will shortly appear, together with the cases of the child affected with 

 diabetes, and of the other patient Flint. 



