Image from page 95 of "The life insurance examiner. A practical treatise upon medical examinations for life insurance" (1888)
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Title: The life insurance examiner. A practical treatise upon medical examinations for life insurance
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Stillman, Charles Frederick
Subjects: Insurance, Life
Publisher: New York, Spectator Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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Precip.ten wh. colored. Precip. Precip.dirty. , dark. Precip. Precip. Pettenkoffers or Hellers test. Blood Microscopic and iron test.Separation of fat by ether. Chyle white. white. 88 The Like Insurance Examiner. Microscopical Examination of Urine. Hints.—Shake the urine thoroughly, add a little salicylic acid to pre-vent decomposition, pour into a conical vessel, cover, and allow it to settlefor half a day or longer. When about to examine it, prepare a clean glassslide, and upon this place a few drops of the urinary deposit by means of apipette; cover the drops with a thin glass disc, and examine with a one-quarter or one-fifth inch objective lens. Search for the different crystals, amorphous urates and phosphates,epithelial cells, fat globules, mucus, pus and blood discs ; and watch withextra care for tube casts, examining many specimens from the same depositbefore any conclusion is reached, especially if the urine contains albumen,as these abnormal ingredients generally coexist.
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Group of crystals of uric acid, often termed cayenne pepper grains, with cctahedra of oxal-ate of lime, x 215. (After Beale.) Five classes of minute bodies are usually met with in sediment de-posited from urine. These are : First, crystals; second, casts ; third, mucusblood and pus corpuscles; fourth, fungi, or minute vegetable organisms:fifth, accidental extraneous matters. Crystals.—Normal urine should never contain a sediment. Appear,ance of crystals within twenty-four hours after the urine has been passed, maybe accepted as indicating a non-healthy condition of the system, whethertemporary or permanent. The crystals most frequently met with are, uricacid, ammonia, oxalate of lime and an amorphous deposit of the urates. I. URIC ACID.—This is the product of a metamorphosis of tissue. Acharacteristic test for it is effected by the addition of a few drops of nitricacid to the suspected deposit, which has previously been placed in a capsule The Life Insurance Examiner. 89 the mixtu
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