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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    selected for exploration. Unless there is something to indicate it, such as the presence of pain, my experience would lead me to believe that this is not a matter of much importance. Both organs are usually involved in the inflammatory condition, though perhaps it may turn out not to the same degree. In double nephritis the relief of tension in one organ aids the other, and thus, as I have noticed on several occasions, the normal amount and constitution of the urine becomes re-established. Similarly, aid to an injured kidney by the removal of direct pressure caused by the accidental extravasation of blood, either within or around it, has been shown to assist the opposite one, and to restore the balance of the urinary excretion when this has been diminished or entirely suppressed. In this statement I have endeavoured to give prominence to those points which seem most deserving of consideration, relying mainly upon direct testimony, than upon inferences drawn from lines of practice which can hardly be said to cover all varieties of this disordered condition. Nor have I made any attempt to elaborate my argument at this stage, from such side- lights as chemistry, physics or physiology