Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
=Yellow=, =saffron yellow=, =brownish yellow=, =greenish=, =olive=, =or
brownish red= indicate the presence of bile pigments (biliverdin,
bilirubin) as in jaundice or cholyuria. Bile salts should be tested for.
A similar coloration may come from free consumption of carrots, or other
yellow pigmentary matters.
=Red=, =brownish red=, =blood red=, =or deep brown color= implies the
presence of blood or blood coloring matter in the urine (hæmaturia,
hæmoglobinuria). Exposed to the air this becomes brown or chocolate in
ratio with the amount of blood or blood pigment present. Some such cases
are complicated by blood clots.
Color due to Foreign Constituents.
=Bronze or black color= may come from injection of =phenic acid=.
=Deep green or olive green= may come from =tar=, =carbolic acid=,
=salol=, =creosote=, or =derivatives of benzine= taken in.
=Brownish green= comes from =thallin= and reddens with iron chloride.
=Brown or blood red= from =rhubarb= or =senna=.
=Purple red from santonin=, if alkaline (if acid, is reddish yellow).
=Red= from =madder= (it is alleged from indigo).
=Yellow= from =carrots=.
=Blue= (indigo blue) may occur in urine of horse or ox when exposed to
the air.
=Bluish green= will come from feeding =indigo=.
=White or yellow color= will result from the presence of =pus=.
=White, chylous urine= occurs with a hæmatozöon (=Bilharzia Crassa=) in
the blood of cattle.
=Translucency.= Urine may be passed clear and become turbid by standing.
The presence of colloids hinders precipitation and prevents clearing.
=Horse=: Urine is generally turbid, especially what has been long in the
bladder, and that which is last passed. The turbidity is largely due to
precipitation of calcium carbonate and bicarbonate, and increases on
green food, or if the liquid stands exposed to the air and is cooled.
Not unfrequently the salts are thrown down as fine spherical granules,
or there may be a white pultaceous mass. They are sometimes entangled in
extremely mobile cylindroid masses coming from the uriniferous tubes
during convalescence from fevers or during fasting. A fine pellicle on
the surface is normal in horse’s urine left in the air.
=Ox, Sheep and Goat=: Urine is passed clear. May become turbid through
the change of lime carbonate into bicarbonate in cattle but always more
slowly than in the horse.
=Carnivora=: Urine is passed clear but becomes turbid on decomposition,
or if concentrated. With excess of fat in the food it may become opaque
from floating oil globules, apart from the classic chyluria.
=Pig=: Fed on raw fresh vegetables the urine is clear, but if on cooked
or dried vegetables, and especially if nitrogenous, it may show opacity.
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