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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lower classes of Europeans who frequent the settlement j and that it, therefore, is not to be viewed as an indigenous disease, but as one grafted on the people in consequence of the introduction and spread of the dissipated practices upon which it is known to be so frequently dependent in European countries. The native population of Bombay is very varied, and fluctuating in its character, and on a perusal of the cases it will be seen that they include all castes, and the inhabitants of different and widely- separated countries, and that there are among them individuals who must have arrived in Bombay already affected with the disease, from Cabool, Khorassan, Scinde, Cutch, Kattyawar, Bengal, and the Coast of Africa. It is therefore not unreason- able to conclude that the present statement relative to Bright's disease is of more than local application, and that it may at least justify the suspicion that further inquiry will show that, equally as in Europe, it prevails in certain classes of the varied tribes and nations of the continent of Asia. In noticing the leading circumstances connected with these cases, I shall arrange my observations under the following heads :—■ # I. On the months in the year in which the disease has been chiefly observed. II. The classes of the native community who have prin- cipally suffered. III. The period of life of those affected. IV. The habits of the patients; the relation of the disease to scarlatina. V. The principal secondary affections ; the number of in- stances in which death has taken place in the way of coma. VI. The morbid anatomy of the kidney in the fatal cases. VII. The morbid anatomy of other organs. VIII. The character of the urine. IX. The treatment. I. On the month of the year in which the disease has been chiefly observed. From the circumstance of the fluctuating character of the native population of Bombay, and of the advanced stage of