On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by W. Howship Dickinson.

Date:
1877
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by W. Howship Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table showing Affections consequent upon Tubal or Diffuse Nephritis in Childhood and afterwards. Affection | Under Sixteen, Twenty-three Cases Sixteen and upwards, Sixteen Cases. Total Number, Thirty-nine Cases Hsematuria1 . 11 7 18 Frequency of Micturition . o 4 4 Pain in Loins .... 1 9 10 CEdema ..... 22 16 38 Ascites ..... 11 9 20 Hydrothorax .... 7 4 11 Fluid in pericardium 1 0 ] Purpura ..... 0 1 1 Epistaxis .... 0 2 1 Erysipelas or Abscess 3 5 8 Uraemic convulsions 5 5 10 Simple coma .... 0 1 2 Other head symptoms 4 0 4 Pneumonia 9 1 10 Pleurisy .... 5 3 8 Peritonitis 2 3 5 Pericarditis 0 1 1 Endocarditis . 0 0 0 Bronchitis 8 0 8 Coagulation of blood in pul-1 n o O monary artery . . } u Z Z Croup, or diphtheria 4 0 4 Vomiting .... 4 5 9 Diarrhoea «... 2 3 5 Gout ■ 0 0 0 Tlie table has been divided, so as to show how the symptoms differ in childhood and adult life. It seems that oedema is almost an invariable symptom, and that ascites and hydro thorax stand next in frequency. Vomit- ing is characteristic of the disease rather than diarrhoea. Urminic poisoning is the great danger in the adult; in childhood inflammation of the respiratory organs. The tendencies of the disease at the two periods of life will be further considered. Not to pass without notice a branch of clinical obser- vation which with regard to some disorders is of the first importance, it may be said that the variations of bodily heat in tubal and diffuse nephritis are scarcely characteristic. I have before me a considerable number of temperature Bodily temper ture. 1 Blood evident to naked eye.