On the nature and treatment of dropsical diseases : in four parts / by Jonathan Osborne.

Date:
1837
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of dropsical diseases : in four parts / by Jonathan Osborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    in consequence of the opinion which his former attendant had entertained, of its being- the seat of an organic disease. The heart’s action, however, was natural: there remained then no complaint. I requested that a specimen of his urine should be brought, and, on observing its pale and cloudy ap- pearance, tried it by heat, and found it to coagu- late. Hence was opened a new field of inquiry; and it appeared that this young man, who, to a superficial view, would have appeared healthy, had a sensation of a dull weight in his loins, was in the constant habit of passing troubled urine, with dense mucous clouds, had dry skin, which never perspired except after the most fatiguing exercise, and altogether afforded complete evidence, that the kidneys were in the state which has been described by Dr. Bright. It is true that in fevers, and other inflammatory diseases, an albuminous deposit is obtained on adding a saturated solution of corrosive subli- mate. This urine is high coloured, and abounds in urea, yielding abundant crystals when treated with nitric acid, without requiring any pre-