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The association of albuminuria with scabies has been a matter of interest, speculation and investigation for over a hundred years. Although it would seem that so simple a matter could be easily and finally settled, yet the results of investigation by different authors vary greatly, not only as to its frequency and severity, but even to its actual occurrence. LITERARY REVIEW Posner1 found albumin in the urine of all scabies patients with his reagent. Spiegler, quoted by Hubner, also came to the same conclusion; but Hubner2 showed that these observers had used a reagent that gave a positive reaction from dilutions of 1: 50,000 at least, and for which, as even Spiegler himself remarked, it was difficult to find albumin free controls. The reagent was also positive with peptone albuminoses and nucleo-albumins. Hubner found albumin in the urine of forty-seven out of fifty scabetic patients with Spiegler's reagent, |
