Clinical manual for the study of medical cases / edited by James Finlayson.

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1878
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    they are often clear and sometimes of low specific gravity (especially in parovarian cysts). The specific gravity of ovarian fluids varies from 1003-1045. The detection of paralbumen in abdominal fluids has been alleged as diagnostic of an ovarian origin, but this substance has now been found in other forms of disease. Paralbumen is not precipitated by heat, although the fluid may become turbid. The action of dilute acetic acid assists its recognition: like mucin, paralbumen is precipi- tated by this re-agent, or at least a turbidity is produced, but the turbidity due to mucin is not dis- Mg./s—Crystals of Choies- J ^ terine. (Otto Funke.) sipated by excess of the acid, or by the addition of a strong solution of chloride of sodium, while the turbidity in the case of paralbumen is dissolved by both of these re-agents. Paralbumen is precipitated by alcohol: so is a substance named metalbumen, but this latter again is not precipitated by ferrocyanide of potassium and acetic acid as paralbumen is. Some confusion exists as to the reactions of paralbumen : the various forms of albumen do not seem as yet sufficiently well demarcated. Another test often applied is to boil the fluid, and after obtaining a coagulum, to add strong acetic acid which redissolves the precipitate from ovarian fluids, or renders it gelatinous after it is shaken up. Mixtures of ordinary albumen and of these altered forms no doubt frequently occur, and tend to confuse the results of the tests. The microscopic examination of ovarian fluids reveals in addition to the cholesterine crystals already mentioned various cellular structures, pus, blood, epithelial cells, and compound granular masses. Besides these Dr. Drysdale describes a granular cell regarded by him as peculiar to ovarian fluids. It