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Selected monographs.

Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Index
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
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    Fio. 7. The last dissection (Fig. 6) seen in profile. References the same as to Fig. 6. escape o£ the urine, moves to a higher position, and, i£ the kidney is very low down, to the very highest point of the pelvis. But as the kidney rotates (as it usually does) the ureter will also become twisted on its axis. In the former case kinking of the ureter results, in the latter torsion, in either case obstruction to the flow of urine must result. Here, as in the case of the renal vessels, I have endeavoured to render the torsion, kinking and bending of the ureter intelligible by the help of drawings. Figs. 6 and 7, in which the ureter is bent and twisted, represent the same dissection from two different views; Fig. 6 from the front, Fig. 7 in profile. The very perceptible upward bend of the ureter, which we have already seen in Fig. 5, is repeated in Fig. 8 below. If this is compared with Moslem-'s post-mortem account, (see above p. 258) the resemblance between the course of the ureter as there described and as here drawn, cannot fail to be seen. It is in fact probable that the colicky pains often observed in patients with moveable kidney depend on temporary obstruc- tions and occlusions of the ureter, and the simultaneous local disturbances in the circulation. The suppression of urine is however usually soon relieved, inasmuch as the loosening of the capsule of the kidney from the posterior abdominal wall,
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