Hooper's physician's vade mecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic . s an auscultatory examina-tion of the chest is for the detection of diseases within that cavity. Itis not sufficient to have detected albumen in the ruine, but the secre-tion must be examined microscopically before an opinion as to thenature of the disease and its probable result can, with any confidence,be given. The casts may best be examined with a magnifying prismof about 200 diameters. The chief varieties are here represented. Fig. 27. Fig. 27 represents an epithelial cast, com-posed of fibrin, entang
Hooper's physician's vade mecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic . s an auscultatory examina-tion of the chest is for the detection of diseases within that cavity. Itis not sufficient to have detected albumen in the ruine, but the secre-tion must be examined microscopically before an opinion as to thenature of the disease and its probable result can, with any confidence,be given. The casts may best be examined with a magnifying prismof about 200 diameters. The chief varieties are here represented. Fig. 27. Fig. 27 represents an epithelial cast, com-posed of fibrin, entangling epithelium and bloodcorpuscles. This form of cast indicates theexistence of that disease which has been called acute desquamative nephritis. It occurs notuncommonly as a consequence of fever poison produces a desquamation ofepithelium from the inner surface of the kidneytubes, analogous to the desquamation of epi-dermis from the skin, which occurs more con-stantly and naturally as one of the consequencesof the fever. \ Mm 126 SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF DISEASE. Fig. 28. Fig. 29.
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