On a case of acute atrophy of the kidneys and liver in a pregnant woman / by T. Grainger Stewart.

Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: On a case of acute atrophy of the kidneys and liver in a pregnant woman / by T. Grainger Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    very difficult to believe that so general and important an affection of the liver and kidneys should have gradually advanced, and yet for long led to no symptom ; still more is it difficult to imagine how so insidious an affection should have suddenly produced such violent symptoms, how the urasmia should have been unaccom- panied by any trace of dropsy, or should have led to a haemorrhagic condition of the blood; and, on the other hand, all the symptoms correspond closely with those of acute yellow atrophy, and many of them with that peculiar variety of the disease which I have de- scribed. These cases, indeed, seem to constitute a connecting link between the affection in its ordinary form, in which the liver is mainly involved, and. this peculiar variety in which the kidneys are the primary seat of disease. KDlNBUKGIl: PRINTKI) BY OLIVER AND BOVI>.