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renal changes, perhaps the sequels of an intrauterine nephritis, are 

 met which may occasion dropsies because of retention of water 

 or on account of some infectious toxic influence present. 



The dropsical transudate is usually a colorless or wine-yellow 

 water-like fluid, generally containing a smaller proportion of 

 albumen than the lymph and fluid exudates, as a rule showing 

 only 0.1 to 0.8 per cent, albumen, according to Perls up to 5 



Fig 3. 



Anasarca universalis congen., so-called water 



calf. 



per cent. (Lymph and blood plasma contain about 7 per cent.) 

 The proportion of salines is the same as in the plasma (0.8 per 

 cent). [The precise composition, particularly as relates to pro- 

 teid, varies in the different types of dropsical fluid; and even hi 

 the same subject the amount of proteid is not identical in fluid 

 from different parts of the body, that from the subcutaneous 

 tissue being usually marked by the lowest proteid content, while 



