The Modern Treatment of Diseases of the Kidney (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Modern Treatment of Diseases of the KidneyDr Hurd has asked me for a short introduction to his translation of my lectures on the Therapeutics of Diseases of the Kidney.The importance of a knowledge of this department of in ternal pathology and therapeutics is incalculable, and scarcely a day will pass when the physician in active practice will not have occasion to make application of some of the principles laid down in this treatise.Much has been learned these late years as to renal pathology and symptomatology. We know to-day that one of the first results of fibroid degeneration of the vascular system (a morbid change so frequent), is sclerosis of the kidney, and this alteration entails renal insufficiency. In this insufficiency, the presence of albumen in the urine plays but a secondary role, and one which cannot serve as the basis of prognosis. Far different, however, is the case with that inevitable consequence of renal failure, the retention in the blood of toxic alkaloids secreted by the economy, and it is to the accumulation of these uro-toxines that we must ascribe that odd complexus of symptoms called uraemic poisoning.Therapeutics may do much to oppose this systemic poisoning by favoring through other emunctories the elimina tion of these toxines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.