Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

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I. History and Literature. Although the congenital alterations in the position and form of the kidney had at an early date excited the attention of medical men^ especially'the anatomists, acquired moveable kidney remained long unknown. Franq,ois Pedemontanus (i) is the first who speaks of a dislocation of the kidney arising from internal and external causes (percussio), without, How- ever, attaching special importance to this anomaly. Eiolan (2) was the first to set forth the clinical import- ance of the disease to which he gave the name of disloca- tion of the kidney. His description of this disease is far too characteristic for me to neglect to repeat it in this place : Quamvis renes adipis glutine videantur tenaciter aflixi lumbis, interdum tamen luxantur et antrorsum procumbunt; interdum in hypogastrium delabuntur, non sine vitcC detri- ■mcnto; hoc ita verum est, ut nullo modo sit dubitandum. Id potissimum accidit, non tantum liquata pinguetudine, qua sunt obvoluti, sed etiam ex pondere, ubi tam grandes sunt, ex tumore vel calculo in cavitate concluso, ut suis retinaculis in sua sede contineri nequeant, tumque ibi aliquamdiu sub- sistnnt, sed t&ndempiUrescuntetahscessiimpatiunhcr. . . . (Renes) comprimunt psoam et nervos ad crura descendeutes. . . . ^Si vena reseretur, aut rumpatur, urinas cruentas funduntur : et quoniam renes communicant per nervos stoma- chicos cum ventriculo, eorum affectihus condolescit aut com- patitur nauseabuudus aut vomituriens. * This seuteiice is incon-ectly quoted by Landau.