Nephrotomy for the relief of sudden total suppression of urine occurring some time after nephrectomy : (with the report of a successful case) / by Willy Meyer.

  • Meyer, Willy, 1858-1932.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Nephrotomy for the relief of sudden total suppression of urine occurring some time after nephrectomy : (with the report of a successful case) / by Willy Meyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TOTAL SUPPRESSION OF URINE OCCUR- RING SOME TIME AFTER NEPHRECTOMY.* [with the report of a successful case.] By WILLY MEYER, M. D., OF NEW YORK, ATTENDING SURGEON TO THE GERMAN AND NEW YORK SKIN AND CANCER HOSPITALS. IT has been my good fortune to perform so far extirpation of a diseased kidney six times (from October, 1890, to October, 1891), and not to have lost any of the patients. They are all in good health to-day and enjoy life. To go here over their his- tories would lead me too far, although every one of them con- tains some points of interest. One of the six cases, however, is so comparatively rare, and the result of prompt operative in terference so extremely gratifying, that I think it worthy to be reported. Miss R. G,, 28 years of age, had always been healthy until 1890, when she was seized with a full, oppressing feeling and some pain in her right hypochondriac region. The pain increased for about two hours, then it suddenly ceased. Similar attacks recurred at intervals of six to eight weeks. She consulted her family physician. Dr. A. M. Lesser, of New York city; but the most careful examination failed to detect anything abnormal. There was no fever, faeces were colored, urine normal. In December, 1890, a similar attack set in; this time, however, with considerable rise of temperature and general distress. Patient had to stay in bed for nearly one week. This time a small tumor could be felt below the border of the right ribs and close to the outer border of the right rectus muscle. It suddenly disappeared on the fifth day, leaving no trace behind. It could not be made out whether during these attacks the secretion of urine had been scarce, and whether coincident with the sudden improvement *Read before the Medical Society of the State of New York at its eighty-sixth annual meeting, Albany, February 2, 1892,