On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by William H. Dickinson.

Date:
1868
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by William H. Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ALBUMINUEIA. CHAPTEK 1. INTRODUCTION. The object of this treatise is to describe those diseases which are made known during life by the presence of Albumen in the urine. These have been classed together under the general term ' Bright's Disease,' or more recently as Albu- minuria. Since the publication of 'The Medical Eeports' —the work in which Dr. Bright first described the conditions of kidney associated with his name—pathologists have been busy in building upon the foundation he laid. With the improved means of research which the microscope has given us, and with a rapidly advancing knowledge of animal chemistry, many refinements have been added to the great discovery of Bright. Many and various subdivisions have been made of the Classifica- conditions which give rise to dropsy and albuminuria. It would be a weary and unprofitable task to follow pathologists into details of classification, frequently of a highly imagina- tive character, with which this part of medical literature is burdened. But, while avoiding fanciful distinctions, it will be seen that there are several disorders, different from each other in their cause, their symptoms, and their morbid an- atomy, which Dr. Bright associated with albuminous urine. It is the object of the present volume to remove some of the obscurity and confusion in which the subject has been
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