Renal diseases : a clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment . f the Urine. FORMS. Mucusin theUrine. The protective epithelial cells of the urinarypassages are, in minute quantity, constantlypresent in healthy urine. When they do notexceed the healthy proportion, they are seenas a very delicate haze occupying the inferiorlayer of urine when set at rest in a conicalurine glass. It is always more abundant inthe urine of women than of men. This will,according to the sex of the patient, exhibit tothe microscope urethral or vaginal squamousepithelium, or vesical mucous corpuscles. Thelatter u
Renal diseases : a clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment . f the Urine. FORMS. Mucusin theUrine. The protective epithelial cells of the urinarypassages are, in minute quantity, constantlypresent in healthy urine. When they do notexceed the healthy proportion, they are seenas a very delicate haze occupying the inferiorlayer of urine when set at rest in a conicalurine glass. It is always more abundant inthe urine of women than of men. This will,according to the sex of the patient, exhibit tothe microscope urethral or vaginal squamousepithelium, or vesical mucous corpuscles. Thelatter usually predominate in the urine of See French edition. Paris, 1870. Page 105. THE URINE. 283 FORMS. Mucus men, while in women there may be a notablein the amount of squamous epithelium derived fromUrine, the vagina; and this is especially abundant inthose who suffer from leucorrhoea. The studentshould familiarize himself with these severalforms, that he may learn to distinguish betweennatural epithelium and those modifications ofit that are significant of Mucous corpuscles and scales of epithelium. An increase in the apparent amount of mu-cous corpuscles denotes some disturbance inthe urinary outlets. In old-standing cases ofurethral stricture mucous corpuscles are abun-dant. A common cause for their increase isan excessive acidity of the urine. They areabundant in urines containing crystals of uricacid and oxalate of lime. They are muchaugmented in gravel or lithiasis, and in gradually increase in quantity after thestage of hematuria in calculous disease of thekidney. In some dyspeptics, quite apart from renal 284 THE URINE. FORMS. Mucusin theUrine. irritation, from a nervous irritable state of thesystem generally, the raucous corpuscles arewont to be in greater proportion than in cystitis from whatever cause, catarrh of thebladder, gouty or calculous cystitis, the amountof mucus passed with the urine is very great;but this is usually accompanied
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