On Albumen in the Urine of Various Diseases.—Heller asserts that
albumen is present in the urine in all kidney-lesions, though sometimes
in small quantity, and that it exists in many other diseases, and often
in greater amount.
1.	Pneumonia and Tuberculosis acuta.—At the commencement of
exudation, while yet the chloride in the urine is in undiminished quanti-
ty, no albumen can be found. As exudation increases, and as the chlo-
ride in the urine diminishes, a very small quantity of albumen appears,
and continues for a long time. This appearance is not constant, but is
very frequent. The greater the albumen, and the less the chloride in
the urine, so much the worse is the prognosis.
2.	Pleurisy.—Albumen does not appear so frequently, even when the
chloride is much diminished. In the period of absorption it sometimes
occurs, and is attended with carbonate and hydrothionate of ammonia.
3.	Acute Liner-Affections.—In chronic or subacute inflammations,
where the chloride of the urine is diminished, albumen appears as in
pneumonia.
4.	Pericarditis and Endocarditis.—In the first case albumen some-
times occurs; in the last, very seldom even when the chloride is much
diminished.
5.	Peritonitis.—Albumen is frequently found, and continues some-
times long after the customary amount of chloride has reappeared, and
morbus Brightii is then, perhaps, left.
6.	Metritis and Eclampsia Puerperalis.—As in peritonitis.
7.	Cholera.—More or less albumen.—Prov. Jour, from Archiv. fur
Pathol. Cliem., Band i. Heft 8.