Notes on Bright's disease of the kidney, as observed chiefly in the clinical ward of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, at Bombay / by C. Morehead.

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[1851?]
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    Notes on Bl ight's Disease of the Kidney, as observed chiefly in the Clinical Ward of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, at Bom- bay. By C. Morehead, M. D., Professor of Medicine, Grant Medical College. Reprinted from the * Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, No. X. It is now twenty-four years since Dr. Bright first published* the very important pathological facts, that dropsical affections are often dependent on certain structural changes of the kidney ; that these lesions are characterised by albuminous urine, and are frequently attended by a cachectic state of the general system. These statements were supported by the publication of 24 cases, collected cliiefly in Guy's Hospital, during the two years which preceded the appearance of Dr. Bright's Report. The accuracy of these opinions has been amply confirmed by Dr. Bl ight's subsequent contributions to Guy's Hospital Reports, as well as by the writings of Dr. Christison, and those of other hospital physicians, in the large cities of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Continent of Europe. The diseases of the kidney characterised by albuminous urine, dropsical affections, and general cachexia, at present generally designated by the name of the eminent physician by whom they were first brought to notice, are acknowledged to be of frequent occurrence among those classes of the community who resort for relief to the public hospitals in Europe. They are, moreover, of very great pathological interest and importance; but, so far as I am aware, we have not as yet any published observations which go to show whether these diseases are frequently met with or not in the same classes of the inhabitants of tropical countries. • Report* of Medical Cases, &c. London, 1827.