On the nature and treatment of diseases of the kidney connected with albuminous urine, (morbus brightii) / by G. Owen Rees.

  • Rees, G. O. (George Owen), 1813-1889.
Date:
1850
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of diseases of the kidney connected with albuminous urine, (morbus brightii) / by G. Owen Rees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    kidney will enable the reader perfectly to understand the rationale of a view which has been taken of those pathological conditions of the kidney which it is the object of the present work to describe. The part of the kidney into which the foreign matter is deposited, causing the granulated or mottled appear- ance in the kidney, was first more particularly pointed out by Dr. Johnson.* In that paper the author states that the epithelium lining the urinary tubules con- tains a certain portion of oil in the healthy state; and that during the progress of the disease this oil increases in quantity, so that the Morbus Brightii is, to use this author's words, primarily and essentially an exagge- ration of the fatty matter which exists naturally in small quantities in the epithelial cells of the healthy organ. This author does not consider, however, that all granular kidneys are necessarily fatty. He wishes, however, that the term Morbus Brightii should be restricted to such cases. Some very interesting results are quoted in the above paper in reference to the production of fatty degenera- tion of the kidney in animals by Mr. Simon. That gentlemaiij while experimenting on the artificial pro- duction of scrofula, confined a cat in a dark cellar for six weeks. This cat's kidneys were found on examina- tion to exhibit a mottled appearance, and the tubes of the cortical portion were filled with fat. The liver also contained fat in large quantity. Two other cats were