On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by William H. Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. Howship (William Howship), 1832-1913.
Date:
1877
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by William H. Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. PAGE Structure of kidney—Its post-mortem state in health—Tables showing- appearances presented by tubes and epithelium in sixty-five healthy kidneys—Fatty degeneration of epithelium—Normal appearances of the epithelium, tubes, fibrous tissue, and blood-vessels—Changes which may be taken as signs of disease—Classification of renal dis¬ ease—Disease of the tubes, or tubal nephritis, sometimes intertubally complicated; of the fibrous tissue or granular degeneration; of the blood and blood-vessels, or lardaceous change ..... 1 CHAPTER II. ALBUMINOUS URINE AND FIBRINOUS CASTS IN THEIR GENERAL RELATION TO THE PATHOLOGY OF THE KIDNEY. Albuminuria from state of blood—From alterations in the kidney— Transudation of serum, caused by renal congestion, by peculiar alter¬ ation in renal vessels, or by loss to the tubes of their epithelial lining -—Fibrinous casts derived like albumen from the liquor sanguinis— Their varieties and indications ....... 15 CHAPTER III. PATHOLOGY OF NEPHRITIS. Change often limited to tubes—Acute form, congested kidney, changes evident to naked eye and with the microscope—More chronic variety, large white kidney, similarly considered—Obstruction of tubes—Fre¬ quent participation of the interstitial tissue in the inflammatory pro¬ cess—Fatty degeneration—Kenal results of nephritis summarized— Mode of examining kidney with the microscope .... 21