Treatise on Bright's disease of the kidneys : its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment with chapters on the anatomy of the kidney, albuminura and the urinary secretion / by Henry B. Millard.

Henry Millard

Date:: 1892

Credit: Treatise on Bright's disease of the kidneys : its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment with chapters on the anatomy of the kidney, albuminura and the urinary secretion / by Henry B. Millard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$(bilateral) followed by acute liemorrliagic nephritis The Vereii] fiir Innere Medizin, before which the case was reported by Dr. Cromer, recognized the etiological relation between the mumps and nephritis. Bouchard recognizes an 'Hiifectious'' nephritis, either transient or permanent, caused by infectious elements in the blood, which in the course of their elimination by the kidney irritate the organ in their passage and alter Its structure. This nephritis is often produced in scar- latina, diphtheria, typhoid fever, pneumonia, small-pox, etc. He has also shown that in these conditions mi- crobes traverse the kidney, producing irritation, conges- tion, albuminuria, etc., these disappearing as the fever diminishes and disappears. Capitan has produced, in a number of instances, ne- phritis with hsematuria by intra-venous injections of beer- yeast, the spores in 24 hours appearing in the blood and urme, with albumin casts, etc. The nephritis, spores, etc., disappeared in a few days. NeylirUis of Bacterial Origin.~J)v. C. Letzerich {All- gemeine MediciniscJie Central Zeitung), September 29, 1883, describes a form of nephritis occurring in children Independently of any of the acute exanthemata, which he observ^ed and studied during the past spring and summer. There were twenty-four cases, presenting sim- ilar symptoms, the same bacteria being found in the urine of each. Three children died of acute urfemia. The micro-organisms voided with the urine were culti- vated through four generations, and then used in ex- periments upon rabbits. In every case the kidneys presented the same macroscopical and microscopical n,^- pearances as were found in the three children dying of this nephritis. The micro-organisms were in the form of rods resembling the bacilli of typhus. In the inter- stitial tissue of the kidneys they were seen in large col- lections from which long threads were traced to the cortex and medullary substance. Tliere were collections$