A Case of Malarious (?) Albuminuria Successfully Treated

Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service. Futteh Singh, a sepoy of the 5th Regiment, Native Light Infantry, was admitted into the hospital of this regiment, on the 7th of August, 1871, suffering from the following symptoms:?ascites; general anasarca, both feet and legs being especially oodematous; a feeling of great weakness; partial anorexia; a dull continuous aching pain in the lumbar region, closely resembling that of lumbago ; severe frontal head-aclie of an intermittent character ; slight dyspnoea when standing, but when in the recumbent posture, or when only a very moderate amount of exercise was taken, it became very urgent; skin dry, harsh, flabby and abnormally pale; moderately enlarged spleen ; and scanty urine, only twelve ounces being voided daily, very pale, slightly alkaline in re-action, of an abnormally low specific gravity, being only 1,001, quite clear when voided, which condition it retained after standing for three hours, without any uric or phosphatic deposits, and when the test for albumen?heat and nitric acid?was employed, it at once became quite opaque. The quantity of urine tested, on standing for a quarter of an hour, was observed