Selected monographs : comprising Albuminuria in health and disease ... Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever ... Moveable kidney in women.

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1884
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    Finally, tlie stays liave been quoted from tbe most various quarters as an important factor in the production of move- able kidney. Gruveilhier especially remarks; J'ai ren- contre plusieurs fois cbez les femmes qui usent de corsets fortement serres, le rein droit dans la fosse iliaque du meme cote. Ce deplacement arrive, lorsque par la pression exercee par le corset sur le foie, lo rein est force de I’espece de loge qu’il occupe a la face inferieure de cet organe, a pen pres comme uu noyau entre les doigts qui le pressent.^^ If we consider, bowever, that many women who bave moveable kidney bave never worn stays and that only a few of those wbo wear stays get moveable kidney, it follows that tbis article of clothing-, as such, is guiltless of tbe production of moveable kidney. Heitber can tbe laced bodices (Scbniir- leibcben^) on which blame is laid by Muller-War neck be allowed to rank as causes. Tbis author, as well as Bartels, assumes that lacing of tbe bodice will directly compress the kidneys; but tbis assumption is incorrect, for tbe bony thorax, within which the kidneys lie, and round tbe lowest part of which the laces are braced, is far too rigid to pass on the pressure to the subjacent organs. The damage which the articles of apparel mentioned above do neverthe- less inflict consists far more in this, viz. that too tight lacing round the thorax prevents its expansion on inspira- tion and obliges the diaphragm to descend deeper by way of compensation and thus to depress the subjacent organs, the liver, spleen and kidneys. Again, the bodices (Schniirmieder^) may produce an injurious effect directly on the kidney in cases in which the kidney has already become moveable and lies against the anterior abdominal wall. It is especially important to remember that, when once a kidney has become moveable, a number of other factors contributing to the further development of its mobility come into play, which, so long as the kidney remains in position, have absolutely no effect in producing its displacement. This is true, for ' ISchniirleih, Schniirmieder, arc arliclcs o£ clofcliing miknowii in Eng- land. They are laced bodices of simple construction, and worn still very generally. The lower orders wear them often outside their otlier garments. I5imilar bodices are worn outside by the Italian peasantry, and form paid of the proper dress of Margaret in ‘ Faust.’—Tiuksl.itoe.]