URINE

consists of water, salts, nitrogenous bigs ag into the blood stream and circulate in it. The blood is | ducts and colouring matter. Normal urine is in poisoned, fever, wasting, and delirium result. The germs | reaction, that is to say it turns blue litmus red. In abnorare discharged in the motions, the urine, and the sweat. | mal conditions the urine differs from the normal in meny All three therefore are highly infectious. The treatment | ways, some of which are obvious at a glance, whilst others requires a doctor and a hospital nurse. If delirium is | are only detected by careful analysis. fig rear Ie a marked feature, a second nurse will be required. The | is much increased by nervous ry eer opp a room must be prepared in the way suitable for an infectious | and chronic Bright's disease; it is diminished by case. [See Sick Room]. vomiting, fever, and acute Bright's disease. The colour — Certain special points require omphasis. The bowels | is higher the more concentrated the urine is; it beeomesa =~ are ulcerated and at those points are as thin as pap or; if | mah brown in jaundice, green in pot be Lines the bowel gives way, death is almost certain. the ulcers aye when it contains blood from the aro not healed till ten days aft or the temperature is normal. | blood red when it contains blood from the bladder or Therefore, from the onset to the end of this time fluid dict | urethra; a deep orange or gamboge yellow may be produced [s. 419]