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soda ; they contained mere traces of chloride of sodium, and a 

 very small amount of earthy phosphates and sulphates. 



g. A woman aged 30 years, an analysis of whose blood is 

 given in p. 515. 



The urine, on the day on which venesection was performed, 

 was tolerably copious, but had been scanty for some days pre- 

 viously. It was of a faint clay-yellow colour, and threw down 

 a flocculent precipitate consisting of pavement epithelium, very 

 long cylinders, mucus- and pus-corpuscles for the most part 

 containing two distinct nuclei, albuminous fungi, a few fat- 

 globules and blood-corpuscles, and a very few minute crystals 

 of uric acid. The reaction of the urine was strongly acid, and 

 its specific gravity 1017. After the removal of the albumen 

 the specific gravity fell to 1013 ; there was consequently a con- 

 siderable quantity of albumen present, and with it a propor- 

 tionate amount of uroxanthin. 



The urea was much diminished. 



The uric acid was increased, which is always the case in the 

 early stages, and as long as the disease retains the acute form. 



The phosphate of soda and sulphates were apparently un- 

 affected; there were mere traces of earthy phosphates, and 

 chloride of sodium was almost entirely absent. 



The urine likewise contained hsematin in solution, which 

 communicated a brown tint to the fluid, and especially to the 

 albumen on drying. 



On the following day the urine and its sediment presented 

 similar characters. The specific gravity was 1012, and after 

 the removal of the albumen 1010. 



In 1000 parts there were contained : 



Water .... 973'74 



Solid constituents . . . 26'26 



Urea . 6-48 



Uric acid 



Albumen . 



Fixed salts 



Extractive and colouring matter 



0-70 

 6-03 

 5-05 

 8-00 



h. A man aged 20 years, who had been for a long time 

 under the care of Dr. Bittner. The disease had assumed the 

 chronic form, and there was great general oedema. 



The urine was turbid, of a very pale yellow colour, and de- 



