A contribution to the study of some forms of albuminuria (nephritis) associated with kidney tension and their treatment / by Reginald Harrison.

  • Reginald Harrison
Date:
1903
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    A CONTRIBUTION TO THE Study of Some Forms of Albuminuria (Nephritis) Associated with Kidney Tension and their Treatment. By REGINALD HARRISON, F.R.C.S. Vice-President, and Hunterian Professor of Pathology and Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England; Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, London. I think the assertion may be made that if certain organs of the body occupied other positions than those where nature has placed them a variety of morbid condi- tions to which they are respectively liable would now receive somewhat different treatment from that which has hitherto been adopted. This is a consideration which naturally presents itself to us with greater force at the present time, when by the aid of antiseptic surgery all parts of the body are being brought within reach of surgical exploration and treatment with a degree of cer- tainty and safety far beyond what the most sanguine could ever have anticipated. The most recent advances of this kind are illustrated by what has been done in the case of the brain and spinal cord. Of other complex organs probably the eye furnishes us with the best example of what surgery is able to accom- plish in removing obstacles and impediments to vision and in combating the disastrous effects of intraocular tension and the degenerations arising therefrom. For these advances are we not in a measure indebted to the accessi-
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