An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the urinary organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidney and bladder : and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion / by William Prout.

Date:
1825
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and treatment of diabetes, calculus, and other affections of the urinary organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the urine in organic diseases of the kidney and bladder : and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of that secretion / by William Prout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. Organic diseases of the urinary organs arc so fre- quently associated with derangements of the urine itself, that in a great variety of instances the former cannot be advantageously treated without taking into consideration the latter. Hence, with the view chiefly of offering some remarks in this part of the subject, the author has been induced in the present edition to give a summary sketch of the principal diseases of the kidney and bladder.* In this edition also an attempt has been made to recapitulate the practical inferences deducible from the phenomena and properties of the urine. Before he made this attempt, the author was not aware of the difficulties he had to encounter ; and he regrets to say, that from the utter impossibility of giving an intelligible description of many of the appearances, * For an account of the symptoms of these organic diseases (in which, of course, little of novelty could be expected), the author acknowledges his obligations to various well known treatises, and particularly to M. Soemmering’s useful little book on the diseases of the urinary organs, to which old men arc more parti- cularly liable.