On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by William H. Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, W. Howship (William Howship), 1832-1913.
Date:
1877
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Credit: On the pathology and treatment of albuminuria / by William H. Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO T HE F I E S T EDITION. The rapid succession of works upon Diseases of the Kidneys has apparently been due to the unexampled progress which, of late years, has been made in renal pathology ; and it is the hope of the Author that it may be said of this volume, as of its predecessors, that it is the offspring of advancing knowledge. The great field of research which, until the time of Bright, was veiled in primeval obscurity, has since been cultivated with an assiduity which has more than made up for centuries of neglect. Bostock, Owen Eees, and Christison supplied much that we know regarding the chemistry of the diseases which Bright had discovered, and Wilks as a patho¬ logist established broad classifications which will pro¬ bably never be entirely superseded. The original treatise of Dr. George Johnson on this subject showed the importance of the microscope, both in its relation to morbid anatomy and as a means of diagnosis; and while adding to our knowledge of disease directed the researches of succeeding enquirers.