. A manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopical and chemical methods, for students, hospital physicians, and practitioners . he excess of stain isremoved by immersion for one-half to one minute in 70 per cent,alcohol, when the specimen is counter stained with Ehrlichs hema-toxylin, rinsed in water, and mounted in glycerin. Evaporation isguarded against by ringing the specimen with asphaltum. Thetube-casts are thus stained a more or less pronounced blue, thenuclei of the leucocytes dark blue, aud any fatty granules or needlesof fatty acids that may be present a bright red. True Casts


. A manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopical and chemical methods, for students, hospital physicians, and practitioners . he excess of stain isremoved by immersion for one-half to one minute in 70 per cent,alcohol, when the specimen is counter stained with Ehrlichs hema-toxylin, rinsed in water, and mounted in glycerin. Evaporation isguarded against by ringing the specimen with asphaltum. Thetube-casts are thus stained a more or less pronounced blue, thenuclei of the leucocytes dark blue, aud any fatty granules or needlesof fatty acids that may be present a bright red. True Casts.—1. Hyaline Casts (Fig. 119).—Upon careful ex-amination it will be seen that with rare exceptions the matrix ofhyaline casts is not altogether homogeneous, as small granules may 1 Rovida, see J. Molesehott. Untersuchung. z. Naturlehre d. Menschen u. d. Thiere,1867, vol. xi., I. p. 132. MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION OF THE URINE. 527 almost always be detected imbedded in or adhering to the these granules occur in greater or less numbers, hyaline caste arc spoken of as being finely granular (Fig. 120), coarsely granular,. >-* Hyaline tube-casts. finely dotted, etc. Should true morphological elements be detected,the casts are termed blood-casts, epithelial casts (Fig. 121), or pus-casts (Fig. 122). It would be better, however, to add the termhyaline in every instance, so as to distinguish them from pseudo-cysts, which consist of these elements entirely, and lack a uniform Fig. 120.


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