On a haematozoon in human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases / by T.R. Lewis.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1874
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Credit: On a haematozoon in human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases / by T.R. Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vessels of the part had become plugged. These sections, when placed in boiling ether, aud afterwards subjected to prolonged maceration in it, did not appear to be materially affected by the process—the translucent oil-like tubules being quite as evident as before. No other morbid chanojes could be detected as havinsr taken place in either the tubular or cortical tissue of the kidneys, but in every fragment, no matter from what part of the kidneys removed, numerous microscopic Filariae were invariably obtained, if the tissue had been properly teased, precisely analogous to those which had beeu detected in the blood aud in the urine during life. Teased fragments of the supra-renal capsules yielded similar specimens. On slitting open any portion of the renal artery, from its entrance into the kidney as far inwards as I was able to follow its ramifications, aud gently scraping its inner surface with a scalpel, numerous HaJinatozoa could always be obtained. The renal vein when similarly examined also yielded specimens of the Filarije, but they did not seem to be so numerous in it. The vessels themselves did not appear to be diseased, and such of the branches as could be seen with the naked eye did not strike me as being abnormally large. But whether the microscopic ramifications aud the capillaries were distended or otherwise (in the absence of properly injected preparations of the organs) could not well be ascertained. Having traced the course of the Hsematozoon from the blood through its channel into the urine, the peculiar appearances presented by this secretion will now be very briefly considered. Tlie chemical constitution of chylous or milky-urine is so well known that it is not necessary to do more than refer to the principal features which it presents. It is, as the term applied to it conveys, more or less perfectly white, has a faint odour of e