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Title: Medical diagnosis, with special reference to practical medicine; a guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes), 1833-1900
Subjects: Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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vented by Harris.^But the most certain of all our means is by the X-ray, and I add areproduction of a skiagraph taken by Dr. Leonard from a patient inwhom the calculus thus detected was removed by Dr. Keen. I have.also seen a stone in the ureter brought to light by the same process.Irrespective of finding the stone, the Roentgen rays enable us to dowhat no other process can accomplish,—to detect the presence ofseveral stones in the same kidney, and to determine their relative sizeand position.^ Diseases marked by an Albuminous Condition of the Urine,associated with more or less Dropsy. The chief of these diseases is Brights disease. At the presentday we hold that the disease which bears Brights name consists of a;gT0up of maladies having the common feature of a more or less albu-minous state of the urine. But, though I beheve this view to be the ^ Henry Morris, AUbutts System of Medicine, vol. iv.^ Journ. Amer. Med. Assoc, Jan. 29, 1898.» Leonard, Phila. Med. Journ., Aug. 20, 1898.
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THE URINE, AND DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 681 correct one, I shall in this sketch prefer to consider the disorder in themain as it is seen separated by broadly drawn lines into an acute anda chronic form, and then examine the further differences these present.Anatomically speaking, we have a diffuse nephritis which is paren-chymatous or interstitial; interstitial nephritis, generally seen in achronic form, and often the result of gradual insidious tissue changes-of a degenerative kind; the waxy or lardaceous kidney, and the fattykidney, which is mostly an attendant upon other kidney alterations. Acute Brights Disease.—In this form, which is almost alwaysan acute parenchymatous nephritis, the symptoms are of an acutecharacter. Especially so is the dropsy, which is quickly developed Fig. 64.

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