In certain cases of cystinuria there are found in the urine sulphurized ptomaines, and in measles the urine contains an undetermined ptomaine, rubedine, which is very poisonous.
The urine fails to be secreted, and later, blood is discharged from the mucous surfaces, involuntary discharges from the bowels, clammy sweats; and death follows.
The menstrual function is frequently deranged, the bowels costive, the urethra, by being pressed, becomes irritable and burns and smarts whenever the urine is evacuated.
Where the discharge of urine produces smarting and burning of the urethra, Cantharis is the remedy.
We put the cup in a place where there was a little water, that the urine might cool the sooner; it often happened that these cups were stolen from those who had thus prepared them.
Mr. Savigny observed that the urineof sum of us was more agreeable than that of others.
In men it may even occur inside the canal through which the urinepasses (urethra).
In man its first symptom is a discharge of pus from the canal through which the urine passes.
Thus of the lynx it is said by AElianos that it covers its urine with sand (like the cat), so that men may not find it, for in seven days the precious stone lyncurion is formed of this urine.
But all patients under the active management of hypertension should be seen at from one to three week intervals, and the urine should be repeatedly examined and the blood pressure carefully recorded.
When he found albumin in the urine it was always accompanied by a falling of the blood pressure and a rapid heart, with loss of weight and a general feeling of debility.
Occasionally when the intense pain has ceased, the patient may be nauseated and actually vomit, or he may soon pass a large amount of urine of low specific gravity, or have a copious movement of the bowels.
If the foregoing management does not reduce hypertension, the kidneys are generally beginning to become involved in the sclerotic degeneration, whether the urine shows such a condition or not.
The amount of urineexcreted is generally insufficient and likely to be concentrated and show various signs of imperfect kidney elimination.
The urine generally soon shows albumin; there may be joint pains; the spleen is enlarged and the liver congested.
The amount of liquid given should be governed by the amount of urine passed and by the amount of perspiration.
Sometimes there is even incontinence of urine and feces, often hiccup or short coughs, perhaps vomiting, and possibly sharp pangs of pain in the cardiac region.
If for any reason the kidneys secrete less urine and become insufficient, the diet should quickly be reduced to a small amount of milk, cereal and water, and hot baths and local heat to the back should be inaugurated.
Thirty-nine of the patients studied by Newell had albumin in the urine without increase in blood pressure; hence he believes that a slight amount of albumin may not be accompanied by other symptoms.
If a Kshatriya has a similar connection with a Brahman woman who is watched, he is to be drenched with the urine of asses and pay 1000 panas.
The Santapana requires that the penitent should live for a day on the urine and dung of cows mingled with milk, and drink water boiled with kuca-grass; the day following he is to fast.
Any one who unintentionally killed a cow, was to shave his head, put on as a garment the skin of the dead cow, repair to the pasture, salute the cows and wait upon them, and then perform his ablutions with the urine of cows instead of water.
This offence could also be expiated by drinking the boiling urine of a cow, or boiling liquid of cow-dung, till death ensued.
The earth is purified by allowing a cow to lie on it for the night, the floors of houses by throwing cow-dung upon them, clothes and woven-stuffs by sprinkling them with the urine of a cow.
The kidneys are usually affected, even in those cases in which albuminous urine is not found.
If a pregnant woman has at the same time considerable albumen in her urine and a low excretion of urea, her condition is very dangerous.
The urine also becomes scanty and loaded with albuminates.
Urine had clots in it and symptoms resembled those in the first case.
Fermentation is necessary in urine as well as in solid dung, before it is very active as a manure.
Where a tank is used in composting, the liquids from the stable may all be employed to supply moisture to the heap; but where any system is adopted, not requiring liquids, the urine may be applied to muck heaps, and then allowed to ferment.
The prepared muck in the bottom of the stalls would absorb the urine as soon as voided, while yet warm with the animal heat, and receive heat from the animal's body while lying down at night.
I), goes to the bladder, where it assumes the form of urea--a constituent of urine or liquid manure.
Hooker, of Rochester, used to draw considerable quantities of urine from the city to his farm.
With the exception of swine, the solid dung is also the richest in nitrogen, while the urine of sheep is pre-eminently rich in nitrogen and potash.
Stockard gives the amount of urine voided by a horse in a year at 3,000 lbs.
In such circumstances, it would doubtless pay to draw the urine full as well as to draw the solid manure.
The manure from the pig, however, taking the urine and solid excrement together, contain 82 per cent of water, while that from the hen contains only 56 per cent of water.
To use sufficient bedding to absorb all the urine in the stable.
The urine of the horse, cow, and pig, does not contain any appreciable quantity of phosphate of lime, whilst the drainings of dung-heaps contain considerable quantities of this valuable fertilizer.
The urinefrom a sheep fed solely on turnips would contain little or no more nitrogen than the urine of a cow fed on turnips.
And so, practically, sheep may be better manure-makers than cattle--for the simple reason that less of the urine is lost.
According to Wolff, a ton of fresh humanurine contains 12 lbs.
Normal urine consists of about 96 per cent of water and 4 per cent of solids.
Unusual constituents of theurine are albumen, sugar, and bile.
The receptacle of the urine in man and other animals.
The unfortunate presence of albumen in the urine is often a symptom of that insidious and fatal malady known as albuminuria or Bright's disease, often accompanied with dropsy and convulsions.
Of the cause of lust and other appetites of the body, of the cause of urine and also of all the natural excretions of the body.
Examination shows a great diminution or entire absence of sulphates, when the acidulatedurine is heated with chloride of barium.
When applied to granulating surfaces, scarlet red is sometimes absorbed in sufficient amount to color the urine a bright red, and a number of acute cases of nephritis have been reported from its use.
The effect of carbolic acid upon the urine (See Chapter II, "Carbolic Acid") is to cause it to become smoky a short time after it is voided.
A canal from the bladder thru which the urine is discharged.
The urine shows a complete absence or diminution of the sulphates, and albumin is generally present.
A tube carrying urine from the kidney to the bladder.
The appearance of the urine is an indication that the use of the drug must be discontinued.
The urine examined during the first seven months should be the first urinepassed on the day it is sent for examination.
If this effort fails, report the fact to the physician when he makes his daily call; he will draw the urine and it will be part of his daily duty to give specific instructions regarding this function until nature reëstablishes it.
The tincture of guaiacum is universally used as a test for the presence of blood, or rather of haemoglobin, the red colouring matter of the blood, in urine or other secretions.
A single drop of the tincture should be added to, say, an inch of urine in a test-tube.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs.
The onset is often insidious, but may be indicated by loss of appetite, a rapid fall in the quantity of both urine and sugar, and by either constipation or diarrhoea.
This dose should be repeated every three or four hours, until the urine becomes alkaline.
They do effect a cessation of the local symptoms, render the urine alkaline, and diminish the amount of fibrin in the blood.
He had every appearance of diseased viscera, and his urine was small in quantity.
Had been subject to asthma for several years; after a severe fit of it her legs began to swell, and the quantity of urine to diminish.
Her urine soon increased, and in a few days she passed it freely, which continued, and her breath returned.
The event was as I expected; no increase in the urine took place; and the medicine being still continued, his pulse became slow, and he apparently sunk under its sedative effects.
I found her greatly reduced in strength, her belly and lower extremities swollen to an amazing size, her urine small in quantity, and her appetite greatly impaired.
The dropsy continuing after the ague was removed, and his urine being still passed in small quantities; he took the powdered leaves, and recovered his health in five days.
A poor man in this town, after his kidneys had ceased to secrete urine for several days, was seized with hickup, fits of vomiting, and transient delirium.
The swelling of the legs was entirely gone, he having evacuated urine in very large quantities for the two preceding days.
He complained of a cough, shortness of breathing, which prevented him from laying down in bed; his belly, thighs and legs very much distended with water; the quantity of urine made at a time seldom exceeded a spoonful.
In three days the effect of this medicine became visible, and when the dose of the Digitalis had been increased to six grains per day, the flow of urine generally amounted to seven pints every twenty-four hours.
The third dose produced great nausea which continued ten hours, during which time the urine made was about a quart.
On the fifth day his appetite began to return, and the sickness ceased, but the flow of urine still continued.
The famous black vomit is not fatal in more than 50 per cent of cases well treated, but when albumen appears in the urine death almost inevitably follows.
