The student's guide to medical case-taking / by Francis Warner.

Date:
1881
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Credit: The student's guide to medical case-taking / by Francis Warner. 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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    DISKASKS OF TlIK UlUXAKY SYSTICJI. H^MATUHIA. If blood comes from the renal striictiu'e usually there are blood casts and smoky nrine ; if from the urinary passages no casts; if fi-om the bladder or lu'cthra piire blood and clots may be i^a-sed, usually after micturition. Periodical attacks of discharge of porter-like urine, with granides and hyaline easts, and the deposit of browui^li granular matter in place of corpuscles. See jaaroxj-smal hfematuria. Paroxysmal Haematuria.—At irregular intervals sudden attacks of rigors, the next ui-ine passed being loaded with blood. Plealth may long continue good. The paroxysms are imattcnded with pain; there may be a feeling of chilliness across the loins, weakness, nausea, vomiting, joint-pain. The jjatient becomes languid, weak, amemic. See Anaemia. Examine heart and vascidar system. Optic- discs. See Haematuria, with description of urine. Renal Calculus. Causation.—It is independent of any Imowu structural (■hange in the Iddneys. Supposed to be connected with ague, rheumatism, exposure to cold; certainly such exposiu-e may excite the paroxysms. It almost always occurs in males, usually adults. There is soiuetimes oxaluria. 0