Normal urine, immediately after being voided, possesses a sweetish, aromatic odor, but many kinds of food and drink transmit to it their characteristics; as. for instance, asparagus which is recognized by everyone. Bright't disease, jaundice, diabetes, and certain affections of the bladder change the odor of the urine, each according to its distinctive character. Quantity Passed In Twenty-four Hours

This in healthy persons varies greatly, the mean daily discharge ranging between forty and fifty ounces, this variation depending greatly on the quantity of fluid taken into the system and upon the skin and bowels performing their normal action. When unusually scanty if the patient has not abstained from liquids beyond habit, and if the water in excess has not been eliminated by some other channel, as by the skin or bowels, we must suspect cirrhosis of the liver, some form of Bright's disease, or some condition of the heart which, directly or indirectly, causes passive congestion of the renal veins, whereby the renal circulation is impeded. If the flow of urine is unusually abundant, and not caused by the cooling of the surface of the body, or by the taking of large quantities of fluid into the system, it is usually indicative of one or two maladies - diabetes or atrophic degeneration of the kidneys, although a temporary excess of urine occurs in hysterical paroxysms and other convulsive attacks in both males and females. An increased tension in the arterial system, such as is frequently found in hypertrophy of the left ventricle, is also very frequently the cause of increased secretion of urine.