Nephrotomy for calculus pyelitis : nephrectomy rightly decided against because of the small percentage of urea, an apparently almost destroyed and useless kidney found to secrete over four and a half times as much urine as the other kidney, death.

  • William Williams Keen
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: Nephrotomy for calculus pyelitis : nephrectomy rightly decided against because of the small percentage of urea, an apparently almost destroyed and useless kidney found to secrete over four and a half times as much urine as the other kidney, death. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    MJ- ->KeArt OyncC STROYED AND USELESS KIDNEY FOUND TO SECRETE OVER FOUR AND A HALF TIMES AS MUCH URINE AS THE OTHER KIDNEY ; DEATH. MISS L., aged 31; height, five feet three inches; weight, one hundred and four pounds; best weight over one hundred and twenty pounds some ten years ago ; was first seen by Dr. W. W. Keep, January 17, 1891. She has lost only four pounds in the last three months. One paternal uncle is the only case of tubercular disease known in the family. Patient has always been delicate, and at the age of 5 had an anterior curvature of the spine. She recovered in two or three years, during which time she went on crutches. No abscess and no paralysis resulted. For about two years she has had intermit- tent attacks of pain in the left loin. At first these attacks were from three weeks to two months apart, and lasted from several hours to one or two days. The pains were always in the left loin, and had a tendency to shoot
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