On the inflammatory diseases of the kidney / [Sir George Johnson].

  • Johnson, George, 1818-1896
Date:
[1847]
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    1‘^dr ON THE INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE KIDNEY. By GEORGE JOHNSON, M.l)., MEDICAL TUTOR IN KING’S COLLEGE, AND PHYSICIAN TO TIIE PUBLIC DISPENSARY, LINCOLN’S INN. Communicated by R. B. TODD, M.D., F.R.S. Received May 20th—Read June 8th, 1847. In a paper published in the last volume of the Society’s Transactions I gave some account of fatty degeneration of the kidney, and declared my intention to make the inflam¬ matory diseases the subject of a separate communication. On the present occasion I purpose to bring before the Society the result of some observations on this very inter¬ esting and important subject. The inflammatory diseases of the kidney may be arranged in two distinct classes: — the first class including those diseases which are the result of some local cause — such as retention of the urine in consequence of stricture, the mechanical irritation of a stone, or a blow on the loins: while in the second class are included those diseases which are the result of a constitutional cause, or, to speak more precisely, of some abnormal condition of the blood. The latter class of diseases is by far the most important, and it is this class only which will be treated of in the present com¬ munication. In the paper before alluded to, when referring to the condi¬ tion of the kidney which occurs as a consequence of scar¬