The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . ally of adeep brown or black color, with a rough,tuberculated surface, which has caused themto be named mulberry calculi. The urineis generally clear and bright, of a dark, am-ber color, of acid reaction, occasionally neu-tral or alkaline, and of specific gravity vary-ing from to ; in a majority ofinstances, urea will be present in cells are very common in urine containing oxalate of lime, (see Figs. 15, 16,a. Dumb-bells—Oxalura
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . ally of adeep brown or black color, with a rough,tuberculated surface, which has caused themto be named mulberry calculi. The urineis generally clear and bright, of a dark, am-ber color, of acid reaction, occasionally neu-tral or alkaline, and of specific gravity vary-ing from to ; in a majority ofinstances, urea will be present in cells are very common in urine containing oxalate of lime, (see Figs. 15, 16,a. Dumb-bells—Oxalurate of Lime. - .\ nY,A ahn-nIA +k^v.^ V>« ^v,r,;j~ vi i I. Oval forms of Oxalurate of Lime. 17n >) a™ .^ould there be considerable urate of ammonia, the urine will frequently becomethick or jelly-like when exposed to the action of heat. It will frequentlybe the case, when oxalate of lime and urate of ammonia are combined in adeposit, that the former cannot be seen under the microscope until thelatter have been dissolved, which may be accomplished by adding a drop ofLiquor Potassa to the drop of urine on the glass 448 AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN. When the urine presents a greenish hue in oxalate of lime formations,the coloring principle of blood is mixed with it; and when quite pale, moreso than is natural, it is commonly of diminished specific gravity; the odoris generally urinary, occasionally resembling that of mignonette. It is byno means uncommon to observe an excess of phosphates with the oxalateof lime deposit. Oxalate of lime is not dissolved by water, Liquor Potassa, or Acetic Acid ;Nitric and Muriatic Acids dissolve it without causing effervescence; in theflame of the blowpipe, it is changed into carbonate of lime, and if the heatbe raised and kept up for a length of time, the Carbonic Acid will be drivenoff, and caustic lime be left. The dumb-bell deposits are slowly convertedinto octohedral crystals, when preserved for a long time in liquid. Causes. O
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