Lectures on diseases of the kidney, generally known as 'Bright's disease'; and dropsy / by S.J. Goodfellow.

  • Goodfellow, S. J. (Stephen Jennings)
Date:
1861
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Credit: Lectures on diseases of the kidney, generally known as 'Bright's disease'; and dropsy / by S.J. Goodfellow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is no albumen present in the urine during the whole course of the disease. The name by which M. Raver designates these dis- eases, nephrite albumineuse, and also that which Dr. Christison has given to them, granular degeneration, are equally unsatisfactory. Against that of M. Rayer it may be urged that it is doubtful whether some of these affections are due to inflammation, as his name im- plies, and as to the term “ granular degeneration ” it may be sufficient to say that in the more severe affec- tions, and those the most rapid and fatal in their course, there is no granulation properly so called. Dr. George Johnson’s terms of acute and chronic des- quamative nephritis and acute and chronic non-desqua- mative disease, although more precise and comprehensive than the preceding, yet are very far from indicating all the affections of the kidney, accompanied by albumi- nous urine, and are objectionable and unsatisfactory for this reason, as well as for others still more grave. If then you wish to use one name for these affections I would advise you to use that of Bright’s Disease— Morbus Brighiii, always bearing in mind that it is an arbitrary term for different affections of the kidney having one common character in nearly every in- stance—namely, the presence, in some part of their course, of albumen in the urine. But as I have said before, the time has now arrived when we mav give different and more precise designations for these diffe- rent affections, according to the symptoms and course of the disease as observed during life, and the b 2 ana-