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NOTE ON A BLUE UKINE. 
ART. XXXVI.— NOTE ON A BLUE URINE.* 
BY M. A. BOUCHARDAT. 
This urine, which was voided before Dr. Priesnitz, was 
sent to Dr. Schmitz, who transmitted it to M. Bouchardat. 
It was passed by a patient who had resided for 27 years at 
Surinam, and who had been during that period affected 
with two very obstinate intermittent fevers, accompanied 
by a very considerable enlargement of the spleen and liver. 
This patient, after having without success undergone many 
courses of treatment, and after having taken considerable 
quantities of quinine and port wine, went, in 1839, to 
Graffenberg, where he was submitted, for nine months, to 
the hydrosudopathic treatment, without deriving much ad- 
vantage from it; indeed, if the powers were restored, the 
swelling of the spleen and liver always appeared. In the 
ninth month, he had observed that the wetted compresses 
applied to the abdomen were stained with brown-red stains, 
similar to those which are produced by decoctions of quin- 
quina. Fifteen days afterwards, he remarked, in the morn- 
ing, that his urine had changed color, that it had become 
dark ; and some hours afterwards, he found that it was per- 
fectly blue, after which it passed successively to green, then 
to blackish. This phenomenon continued for about a fort- 
night, and, at the end of that time, the cure was completed. 
The patient remained eighteen months at Graffenberg, to 
acquire strength and to perfect his return to health: from 
that time, there has not been the slightest appearance of re- 
lapse, and the liver and spleen have returned to their normal 
size. 
Dr. Schmitz has three times observed blue sediments in 
♦Journal des Connaissances Medicales Pratiques, July, 1842. 
