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DR. BENCE JONES ON THE VARIATIONS IN 
Table II. (Continued.) 
Earthy phosphates. 
Specific gra- 
vity. 
Alkaline phos- 
phates. 
Total. 
Case 2. Fractured spine, eleventh dorsal vertebra. 
2nd day 
•86 per 1000 urine. 
1029*2 
8-35 
9-21 
4th day 
•94 
1025-9 
8-00 
8-94 
5th day 
•73 
1025-0 
8-04 
8-79 
7th day 
*56 
1022-8 
5-17 
5-73 
12th day 
•15 
1007-8 
1-29 
1-44 
36th day. Died. 
Case 3. Recent paraplegia. 
14th day. Water passed from evening 
\ 2-15 
1026-5 
5-88 
8-03 
to morning 
J 
19 th day 
•70 
1016-6 
1-34 
2-04 
22nd day 
1-09 
1017-9 
2-00 
3-09 
27th day 
1-00 
1021-3 
2-56 
3-56 
34th day 
M3 
1019-4 
3-14 
4-27 
59th day 
1-45 
1019-9 
2-39 
3-84 
109th day 
1-31 
1021-2 
2-86 
3-17 
Case 4. Recent paraplegia. Head long slightly affected. 
19 th day, afternoon water 
2-00 
1023-2 
1-78 
3-78 
'24th day, morning water 
•53 
1012-6 
3-34 
3-87 
Case 5. Paralysis from arsenic almost complete. 
20th day 
1008-6 
1-69 
21st day 
•60 
1014-8 
3-96 
4-56 
Case 6. Chronic paraplegia (three months) 
M3 
1019-4 
3-56 
4-69 
Case 7- Chronic paraplegia (five months) 
•49 
1015-9 
1-51 
2-00 
Case 8. Paraplegia (seven or eight years’ curva- 
j> *30 
1007-5 
•84 
1-14 
ture) twelve months 
Case 9- Paraplegia. Tabes ? 
•44 
1012-2 
•35 
•79 
In Case 1, on the eighth and ninth day, a slight excess is observable. This is also 
present in Case 2 on the second, fourth and fifth day ; and in chronic cases the quan- 
tity of phosphatic salts is, if anything, lower than natural. 
Table III. — On the Total Amount ofEarthy and Alkaline Phosphates in Diseases of 
the Membranes, and in some Chronic Diseases of the Brain. 
Earthy phosphates. 
Specific gra- 
vity. 
Alkaline phos- 
phates. 
Total. 
Case 1. Scalp wound, doing well. On the 16th 
began. 
3rd day of inflammation 
day from accident, ac 
*56 per 1000 urine. 
•58 
ate inflamma 
1022-4 
tion of the n 
3-94 
tembranes ; 
4-50 
4th day 
1020-1 
5-07 
5-65 
5th day. Died. 
Case 2. Scalp wound. On the 18th day acute i 
5th day of inflammation 
nflammation of membr 
•15 
anes began. 
1025-3 
6-17 
6-32 
7th day. Died. 
Case 3. Scalp wound. On the 1 6th day diffuse 
9th day of inflammation 
inflammation of memb 
•10 
ranes began. 
1011-5 
2-70 
2-80 
1 1 tli day 
•09 
) 1-25 
J 
1008-0 
1-96 
2-05 
Case 4. Two years’ chronic disease of the bones 
and membranes 
1017-4 
2-60 
3-85 
Case 5. Pain in the head, ending in total blind 
30th day 
aess at last. 
•27 
1021-3 
•69 
•96 
35th day 
•33 
1010-1 
•27 
•60 
54th day 
•74 
1015-2 
2-33 
3-07 
71st day 
*56 
1006-0 
•32 
•88 
82nd day 
•13 
1010-0 
1-30 
1-43 
89th day 
•93 
1011-2 
2-42 
3-35 
359th day. Died of softening of the b 
rain. 
