Renal tension and its treatment by surgical means / by Reginald Harrison.

  • Harrison, Reginald, 1837-1908.
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: Renal tension and its treatment by surgical means / by Reginald Harrison. 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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    and the necessity that may arise for its removal artificially. If we turn, for instance, to Dr. Delafield’s admirable article in the Twentieth Century (New York), published so recently as 1895, we shall find numerous references, such as the following, to kidney states in connection with nephritis : “ commencing exudation,” “ com- mencing transformation of the exudation,” “extravasations of blood in the Malpighian bodies, the tubes, and the kidney tissue, and by filling of the tubes with coagulated fibrin,” “the tubes are filled with degenerated epi- thelium, granular matter, and fat globules, or with homogeneous exudation,” “ if the exuda- tion between the tubes has become organised, we find masses of connective-tissue cells and fibres,” and so on. Still more striking and suggestive is the following passage : “ Sometimes, particularly when the attack is the result of a definite exposure to cold, and the subject middle-aged and intemperate, an acute form of nephritis manifests itself, which is characterised by extravagant congestion, even to chocolate or purple, and great and rapid swelling of the gland ; so that, as I have seen at least in one instance, the kidneys have burst their capsules. Short of this exceptional result the whole organ,