Selected monographs.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALBUMINUEIA IS HEALTH AND DISEASE. Introduction. History teaches ns tliat the views of modem times constantly revert to those points which were regarded by earlier observers as settled, and thus, particularly nowadays, when so few have leisure for the historical study of science, there is perhaps ample justification for bringing old notions within the intellectual view of a succeeding generation.—E. Virchow's Preface to his ' Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur toissenschaftlichen Medicin,' 1856. I can think of no better introduction to tlie following treatise than Virchow's words which. I have placed at its commencement. For, as holds good with regard to so many- other scientific questions in medicine, so likewise and in an especial manner with reference to the doctrines on albumin- uria, they possess in my opinion complete validity and at present perhaps more than at any previous time. The older views, nowadays if not entirely abandoned, at all events but little regarded, assigned as is well known, various causes for albuminuria, viz. alterations in the circulation in the kidneys, alterations in the membranes placed between the blood and the urine, and changes in the condition of the blood. To one or other of these three factors was a greater or less share attributed in the origination of albuminuria, and ac- cording to the existing state of science, attempts were made to determine the influence of each of them. The most ener- getic and successful opponent of these doctrines was J. B. Stokvis, who, supported by extended experimental and clini-