clear account of the microscopic examination of the sediment, which are also well illustrated in the plates at the end of the book. Then comes the qualitative chemical examination of albumin, other urinary proteids, mucin, blood, chyluria, sugar, bile, &c. The following sections deal with the quantitative examination of albumin, glucose, urea, phosphates, &c., and this is followed by a brief an...

A LTHOUGH a number of procedures are available for quantitative determinations of porphyrins in urine, most of them involve extractions with organic solvents and are not applicable to screening of urinary porphyrins in a large number of patients. The direct spectrophotometric procedure of Rimington and Sveinsson (1) is rapid and works very well for most normal urine specimens. However, urine sp...

Urine examination is one of the important armamentarium in the practice of urology and it is a fundamental test that is usually carried out for urology patients, it can be as simple as dipstick analysis to a complex hormonal assays. Urine examination is done worldwide as an extension of physical examination which provides a lot of information about the pathology, and both physical and chemical ...