Renal tension and its treatment by surgical means / by Reginald Harrison.

  • Harrison, Reginald, 1837-1908.
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: Renal tension and its treatment by surgical means / by Reginald Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO degree of slow leakage or exudation of certain of its constituents in the direction of the peri- urethral tissues occurring. 1 attributed this to the destruction of the epithelial coat, which was found to be absent at these points, as shown in the drawing (fig. i). This led to lymph barriers being thrown out in the peri- urethral tissue, which by their subsequent organisation and contraction formed strictures and indurations, and sometimes by their extent involved the perineum. The same, I believe, may happen in the inflamed kidney as a consequence of tension, and by the slow exudation of urine tend in aiding its disorganisation. The fact, I think, is not sufficiently appreciated, that in trans- mitting a fluid so damaging as healthy urine may prove, nature specially provides against such a contingency in the construction of the tubes and reservoir employed for this pur- pose. We recognise this from the very point where the urine is first formed and collected. Thus, as with all of the hypertrophies, these provisions may bring with them their own liabilities. Apart from evidence to be obtained from ocular and digital exploration of the kidney, which will be referred to later on, there are some important analogies bearing upon internal