Selected monographs.

Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Tnteoduction I. The Vakious Poems in which Albttmen is Exceeteb . 3 The possible sources of albumen in tlie urine. True and false albuminuria. Albuminuria in the strict sense of the word, or the excretion of albuminous constituents of the blood (serum-albumin and globulin) coagulable by heat. Pepton- uria. Propeptonuria (the excretion of hemi-albumose). Mixed albuminuria. Methods of demonstrating coagulable and non-coagulable albuminous substances. II. Albumen as a Constituent of Noemal Ueine . . 15 Statements with regard to the occun-ence of a ferment-like sub- stance (nephrozymasis) and of albuminous substances proper in normal urine. Physiological albuminuria, its frequency and the difficulties attending its demonstration. The soui-ces of albumen in normal urine are the Malpighian bodies which yield a filtrate, but no secretion. Laws of filtration and transudation. The urine composed of the fluid of filtration and specific glandular secretion. III. The Dependence of Albuminueia upon Alteeations in THE Blood-peessuee . . . . . -39 Difficulties in estimating the influence of alterations of pres- sure. Attempts to increase the arterial pressure by irri- tating the spinal cord, by producing dyspna3a, &c., by ligatui'e of the aorta, by dividing the renal nerves, by increasing the bodily temperature, by muscular activity, by the work of digestion, by poisons. Venous congestion due to ligature of the vein, ariery, and ureters respectively. Differences between long-continued and temporary ligature. Explana- tion of the processes in the various forms of renal congestion. Comparison of the venous congestion experimentally produce^ with the clinical forms of the same condition.