Urine segregation by means of kidney massage : report of a case of tuberculosis of the kidney, with special reference to the importance of cytological examination of urine sediment / by David Murray Cowie.

  • Cowie, David Murray, 1872-1940.
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[1907?]
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Credit: Urine segregation by means of kidney massage : report of a case of tuberculosis of the kidney, with special reference to the importance of cytological examination of urine sediment / by David Murray Cowie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SS PR Gf la Lr Phyy Rant cape [Reprinted from American Medicine, New Series, Vol. II. 0. I, pages 36-39, January, 1907. URINE SEGREGATION BY MEANS OF KIDNEY MASSAGE. REPORT OF A CASE OF TU- BERCULOSIS OF THE KIDNEY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF CYTOLO- GIC EXAMINATION OF URINE SEDIMENT.: BY , DAVID MURRAY/ ‘COWIE, M.D, of Ann Arbor, “Michigan. My attention was called to a somewhat unique method of urine segregation several years ago and I determined to make some investiga- tions along this line, should the opportunity ever present itself to me. It was my good fortune a very short time after this to have a patient enter my private practice, complaining of stomach symptoms, the examination of whom revealed an associated pyuria which ultimately proved to be of tuberculous origin. The difficulty of ureteral catheterization for diagnostic purposes is so great, particularly in the male, as to make its general employment a matter of great reluctance on the part of the general practitioner, who should be thoroughly familiar with the methods that lead to definite genitourinary diagnosis. Indeed for the speci- alist any simplification of present methods, which carries with it a diminution of the risk of ureteral infection,—a risk which accompanies Nore.—Read at the Jackson Meeting of the Michigan State Medical Society, June, 1906. *From Dr. Cowie’s Private Laboratory.
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