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SCHOOL TRAINING FOR HOME DUTIES OF WOMEN.-COLOURED URINE.
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also not uncommon in cases of infective endobut in this instance they did not occur. It would have been interesting to have obtained a bacteriological examination of the recent vegetations in the left auricle, although in the clinical course of the case there was nothing to suggest that the endocarditis was of an infectious nature.
normal constituent and a derivative of indol, a product of intestinal digestion, and, of course, the quantity of indican in the urine is increased in cases of obstruction of the small intestine. Indican in the urine may also be due to the administration of certain drugs, such as creasote or turpentine. On oxidation indican readily splits up into indigo blue and potassium hydrogen sulphate. Urine containing indigo blue is always alkaline and usually in a SCHOOL TRAINING FOR HOME DUTIES OF state of decomposition. Black or dark urine may be due to WOMEN. several causes. In carboluria the urine is dark when passed AT the recent meeting of the British Association for the or it becomes dark on exposure to air from the formation of Advancement of Science Professor Arthur Smithells, F.R.S., hydroquinone. The colour is usually olive-green but may be read a very interesting paper upon the subject of the train- smoky. Fuchsine, when administered in small doses, from ing of women while still at school for home duties. He one-half to one grain thrice daily, may also produce olivepointed out that in a number of homes it is impossible for green urine. In melanuria the urine is of the colour of caféthe mothers to teach the children since the mothers have au-lait. This condition occurs in malarial cachexia, in melano knowledge, and even if they had the knowledge the notic affections of the skin and liver, and after the inges. children have to go out to work. In a different class of tion of certain drugs, such as creasote and turpentine. the community, where it might be thought that girls could On addition of nitric acid the urine becomes black be trained at home in matters regarding the management from conversion of the chromogen of melanin into that of the home, the training of the daughters cannot be substance. In bmmoglobinuria and basmatoporphyrinuria properly carried out on account of the " ignorance, the urine is of a port-wine colour. The latter condition prejudice, and folly" of the domestic circle. Professor occurs in sulphonal and trional poisoning. Excluding febrile Smithells thinks, and we think with him, that a urine loaded with urates and urine containing blood in great deal of simple instruction in the elements of the quantity, red or purple urine may be due to the administra. household arts, and in the inculcation of clean and orderly tion of a number of drugs. After taking the synthetic habits of living, should be given at school, and he laid purgative " purgen " (dihydroxyl-phthalo-phenone) the urine special stress upon the teaching of science. He alluded is not coloured if acid but shows a deep crimson-red colour to many of the common phrases in use in a household as if alkaline. This colour is destroyed by acids and restored evidence of an absolutely unscientific attitude. The common by alkalies. Purgatin (anthrapurpurin diacetate) colours phrases, "It has gone wrong,""The jelly won’t set,""The the urine bright red. Pyoktanin or methyl-violet may impart meat won’t keep," and " The fire won’t draw " make up the its colour to the urine. Fuchsine, a derivative of aniline, language of superstition, for a demon of perversity is produces a bright purple urine in doses of from one grain to implied behind them, the true cause of the troubles being three grains ; in smaller doses, as already mentioned, the unknown. And here he pointed out how many school- colour may be olive-green. mistresses who have taken high degrees in science can give no intelligible account of the reasons why certain things ACCIDENTS TO JOCKEYS. happen, or do not happen, in a house-they do not know, for WE have previously1 drawn attention to the deficient example, why washing soda " goes white or why brass care taken at many racecourses to insure prompt medical goes green." We are in full sympathy with Professor attention when accidents occur. A recent instance serves Smithells’s contention that even the most elementary sciento the need once more of which we spoke. emphasise tific knowledge is absent from most of our households; one another are almost necessarily of Accidents of sort or every medical man must have noticed the fact. We are glad, occurrence at race meetings, and it seems to us a therefore, to learn that he has found it possible to arrange frequent from that of view some adequate arrangement pity every point a course of science lessons in which scientific discipline is not arrived in at every important racing centre between and scientific method can be inculcated by simple experiauthorities and the local medical profession. On the part mental work, based entirely on matters of the household and the of the at latter, any rate, we are certain that there would be of daily life ; "where,"to use his own words, "the informareadiness to provide for the attendance of proper tion acquired is truly useful knowledge ; and where the every medical so that the unfortunate victims of accident skill, minds of the pupils are awakened to the fact that the need no added incur household is a laboratory of applied science." The way danger from delay or from hurried, and of the wife and mother of the future, to say nothing of improvised, ignorant assistance. The accidents that befall are often of just such a nature that their that of the husband, would be rendered more easy if the jockeys skilled immediate treatment home could be worked upon the lines suggested. plays an all-important part in the eventual favourable result. For often determining are met and comparatively difficulties with subsequent COLOURED URINE. bad results obtained because the golden moments for THE Edinburgh Medical Journal for June contains a useful proper treatment in the first instance were wasted through article by Dr. W. Murrell and Dr. Wilson Hake on the the non-appearance of the necessary surgical skill. various causes of abnormal colouration of the urine. In the majority of cases of blue or green urine the colour is due to BACILLUS VIOLARIUS ACETONICUS: A NEW the administration of methylene blue. A green colour may MICROBE PRODUCING ACETONE. the result from admixture of methylene blue with the normal of the urine. also Green urine may M. L. Bréaudat has described in the Comptes ReniJus yellow colouring matter be due to biliverdin, which may be easily recognised by its of June 5th, p. 1280, a new microbe which is capable characteristic tests. In a small minority of cases blue or of producing acetone at the expense of proteid matter. It green urine is due to other causes, and although most of is a chromogenic (violet) organism, colourless, oval in these are well known, a summary of them is of value shape, and is readily stained by aniline colours though not and interest. Indigo-blue urine is rare; large quantities by Gram’s method. It was discovered in drinking water at of indigo may be taken without affecting the urine. 1 THE LANCET, The indigo found in urine is formed from indican, a April 15th, 1905, p. 1015. are
carditis,
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452 infarcts
also not uncommon in cases of infective endobut in this instance they did not occur. It would have been interesting to have obtained a bacteriological examination of the recent vegetations in the left auricle, although in the clinical course of the case there was nothing to suggest that the endocarditis was of an infectious nature.
normal constituent and a derivative of indol, a product of intestinal digestion, and, of course, the quantity of indican in the urine is increased in cases of obstruction of the small intestine. Indican in the urine may also be due to the administration of certain drugs, such as creasote or turpentine. On oxidation indican readily splits up into indigo blue and potassium hydrogen sulphate. Urine containing indigo blue is always alkaline and usually in a SCHOOL TRAINING FOR HOME DUTIES OF state of decomposition. Black or dark urine may be due to WOMEN. several causes. In carboluria the urine is dark when passed AT the recent meeting of the British Association for the or it becomes dark on exposure to air from the formation of Advancement of Science Professor Arthur Smithells, F.R.S., hydroquinone. The colour is usually olive-green but may be read a very interesting paper upon the subject of the train- smoky. Fuchsine, when administered in small doses, from ing of women while still at school for home duties. He one-half to one grain thrice daily, may also produce olivepointed out that in a number of homes it is impossible for green urine. In melanuria the urine is of the colour of caféthe mothers to teach the children since the mothers have au-lait. This condition occurs in malarial cachexia, in melano knowledge, and even if they had the knowledge the notic affections of the skin and liver, and after the inges. children have to go out to work. In a different class of tion of certain drugs, such as creasote and turpentine. the community, where it might be thought that girls could On addition of nitric acid the urine becomes black be trained at home in matters regarding the management from conversion of the chromogen of melanin into that of the home, the training of the daughters cannot be substance. In bmmoglobinuria and basmatoporphyrinuria properly carried out on account of the " ignorance, the urine is of a port-wine colour. The latter condition prejudice, and folly" of the domestic circle. Professor occurs in sulphonal and trional poisoning. Excluding febrile Smithells thinks, and we think with him, that a urine loaded with urates and urine containing blood in great deal of simple instruction in the elements of the quantity, red or purple urine may be due to the administra. household arts, and in the inculcation of clean and orderly tion of a number of drugs. After taking the synthetic habits of living, should be given at school, and he laid purgative " purgen " (dihydroxyl-phthalo-phenone) the urine special stress upon the teaching of science. He alluded is not coloured if acid but shows a deep crimson-red colour to many of the common phrases in use in a household as if alkaline. This colour is destroyed by acids and restored evidence of an absolutely unscientific attitude. The common by alkalies. Purgatin (anthrapurpurin diacetate) colours phrases, "It has gone wrong,""The jelly won’t set,""The the urine bright red. Pyoktanin or methyl-violet may impart meat won’t keep," and " The fire won’t draw " make up the its colour to the urine. Fuchsine, a derivative of aniline, language of superstition, for a demon of perversity is produces a bright purple urine in doses of from one grain to implied behind them, the true cause of the troubles being three grains ; in smaller doses, as already mentioned, the unknown. And here he pointed out how many school- colour may be olive-green. mistresses who have taken high degrees in science can give no intelligible account of the reasons why certain things ACCIDENTS TO JOCKEYS. happen, or do not happen, in a house-they do not know, for WE have previously1 drawn attention to the deficient example, why washing soda " goes white or why brass care taken at many racecourses to insure prompt medical goes green." We are in full sympathy with Professor attention when accidents occur. A recent instance serves Smithells’s contention that even the most elementary sciento the need once more of which we spoke. emphasise tific knowledge is absent from most of our households; one another are almost necessarily of Accidents of sort or every medical man must have noticed the fact. We are glad, occurrence at race meetings, and it seems to us a therefore, to learn that he has found it possible to arrange frequent from that of view some adequate arrangement pity every point a course of science lessons in which scientific discipline is not arrived in at every important racing centre between and scientific method can be inculcated by simple experiauthorities and the local medical profession. On the part mental work, based entirely on matters of the household and the of the at latter, any rate, we are certain that there would be of daily life ; "where,"to use his own words, "the informareadiness to provide for the attendance of proper tion acquired is truly useful knowledge ; and where the every medical so that the unfortunate victims of accident skill, minds of the pupils are awakened to the fact that the need no added incur household is a laboratory of applied science." The way danger from delay or from hurried, and of the wife and mother of the future, to say nothing of improvised, ignorant assistance. The accidents that befall are often of just such a nature that their that of the husband, would be rendered more easy if the jockeys skilled immediate treatment home could be worked upon the lines suggested. plays an all-important part in the eventual favourable result. For often determining are met and comparatively difficulties with subsequent COLOURED URINE. bad results obtained because the golden moments for THE Edinburgh Medical Journal for June contains a useful proper treatment in the first instance were wasted through article by Dr. W. Murrell and Dr. Wilson Hake on the the non-appearance of the necessary surgical skill. various causes of abnormal colouration of the urine. In the majority of cases of blue or green urine the colour is due to BACILLUS VIOLARIUS ACETONICUS: A NEW the administration of methylene blue. A green colour may MICROBE PRODUCING ACETONE. the result from admixture of methylene blue with the normal of the urine. also Green urine may M. L. Bréaudat has described in the Comptes ReniJus yellow colouring matter be due to biliverdin, which may be easily recognised by its of June 5th, p. 1280, a new microbe which is capable characteristic tests. In a small minority of cases blue or of producing acetone at the expense of proteid matter. It green urine is due to other causes, and although most of is a chromogenic (violet) organism, colourless, oval in these are well known, a summary of them is of value shape, and is readily stained by aniline colours though not and interest. Indigo-blue urine is rare; large quantities by Gram’s method. It was discovered in drinking water at of indigo may be taken without affecting the urine. 1 THE LANCET, The indigo found in urine is formed from indican, a April 15th, 1905, p. 1015. are
carditis,
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