On erysipelas and its treatment by perchloride of iron / by William Pirrie.

  • William Pirrie
Date:
1861
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Credit: On erysipelas and its treatment by perchloride of iron / by William Pirrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    epithelial cells, and the excretion of organic elements so transformed as to constitute fluid albumen. I would here ask whether these peculiar features of the urine, when persisting for some days, are indicative of no other pathological conditions than those already mentioned as allowed by some ? Is there no congestion and increased pressure on the vessels of the kidneys in these cases ? and are not the facts of the blood being disordered, and perhaps attracted in greater quantity than usual to the renal organs at the period of convalescence, sufficient to occasion such an amount of congestion and stasis as leads to slight serous transudation, and usually passes off without leading to any serious anatomical lesion. My own conviction is, that in consequence of the disordered state of the blood, it becomes unable to pass, as in health, through the intertubular capillaries. A certain stasis takes place; this causes a greater pressure than natural on the Malpighian bodies, and they suffer just such an amount of expansion as allows a small amount of serum to pass through their walls. The renal cells, in striving to separate the foreign matters from the blood, undergo such a modification in their nutrition as causes their detachment and subsequent appearance in the urine. Anything more than a trifling and transient congestion may probably he owing to the most deleterious properties of the poison having been exhausted previous to the period at which there is any special determination to the kidneys, and to its copious discharge through the cutaneous surface. This slight renal disturbance very
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