A substance possessing greater reducing power than grape sugar found in diabetic urine.

Normal urine consists of about 96 per cent of water and 4 per cent of solids.

They said, "To the senses of others they are like the stinks arising from dunghills, the stenches from dead bodies, and the scents from stale urine."

In this number was Sydenham, whose health began to fail in the fifty-second year of his age, by the frequent attacks of the gout, to which he was subject for a great part of his life, and which was afterwards accompanied with the stone in the kidneys, and, its natural consequence, bloody urine.