Identifier: kidneydiseasesur00beal (find matches)
Title: Kidney diseases, urinary deposits, and calculous disorders : their nature and treatment
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Beale, Lionel S. (Lionel Smith), 1828-1906
Subjects: Kidneys Urinary organs Urine Kidney Diseases Urinalysis Urinary Calculi
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Epithelial and granular casts from the urine of ;a woman suffering from acute nephritis with dropsy, of afortnights duration, a, epithelial casts; the cells of renal epithelium are very distinct, and their nuclei welldefined. 6, casts containing brown granular matter and blood corpuscles, c, granular casts of a browncolour, many of them containing a few oil globules, d, squamous epithelium from the vagina, e, epitheliumfrom the bladder. /, cells containing oil globules, g, portion of a cast containing oil globules, h, circulargranular cells, probably altered renal epithelium, i, fibre of flax, of accidental presence k. blanket hair.X 215. p. 347. Pig. 87.
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9& x: rpSW \i •*-!&;:.Jj Casts from a case of chronic nephritis, a. dark granular casts, b. casts containing small granular cells and■white blood corpuscles, c. waxy casts, consisting of a perfectly clear glistening material, d. large cast,flattened by pressure, containing white blood corpuscles, e. portion of a cast containing a large cell filled■with oil globules. /, pus corpuscles, probably derived from the bladder p. collections of small oil globules.h. large cell containing smaller cells in the interior. Of the nature of this I am ignorant, but I have observedsuch in several specimens of urine, i, portions of cotton fibre k. piece of very thin human hair. I fragmentof flax. X 215. p. 347. (To face page 346. ACUTE INFLAMMATION. 347 chronic. The former would indicate that the kidney was becoming smalland contracted, while the latter variety of casts occurs when it is often oflarge size, and fatty. Such examples might be multiplied. When weconsider how very numerous ar

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