Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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PEEFACE. The significance of moveable kidneys in their pathological and therapeutical relations has not yet been rendered suffi- ciently clear in spite of many valuable works. It has been in part wrongly interpreted, in part over- looked. By most persons it is regarded without serious clinical interest as an anatomical curiosity, the diagnosis of which leads to nothing further than the relief of the patient from the fear of a presumably serious malady. A view directly opposed to this has been lately promulgated, namely, that moveable kidney is a disease dangerous to life, which must be removed as quickly as possible by extirpation. In the presence of this difference of opinion it is worth every doctor's while to obtain clear views on this disease, so often seen and so often mistaken. For the gyntecologist especially, the knowledge of this malady is all the more important since it attacks women by preference and stands in a far more intimate relation to affections of the female sexual organs than is commonly supposed. The observation of numerous cases of moveable kidney has led me to conclusions differing in many respects from the views hitherto entertained, and I have thought it advisable to embody them in a systematic treatise on this disease. LANDAU. Berlin ; July 16,1881.