Morbid urine may contain too great or too small a proportion of one or more of its normal constituents. These are urea, uric acid, urates, phosphates, chlorides; or it may contain one or more ingredients not usually found in healthy urine: albumen, sugar, blood, pus, bile, chyle, etc.

Chemical Constituents. The average composition of a thousand parts of urine is about as follows:

Water................

950.00

Urea ...............................................................

26.20

Uric acid...............

1.45

Kreatine and creatinine ................................

.80

Hippurates of sodium and potassium ..............

.70

Mucus and coloring matters .........................

.35

Phosphates of sodium and potassium ............

3.75

Phosphates of calcium and magnesium .........

.90

Chlorides of sodium and potassium..............

12.55

Sulphates of sodium and potassium.................

4.30

1000.00