Lectures on Bright's disease of the kidneys / delivered at the School of Medicine of Paris by J.M. Charcot ; translated with the permission of the author, by Henry B. Millard.

  • Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Lectures on Bright's disease of the kidneys / delivered at the School of Medicine of Paris by J.M. Charcot ; translated with the permission of the author, by Henry B. Millard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. I KNOW no work which, with such conciseness and pre- cision, presents the various characteristics of the important disease which is the subject of these lectures as that which I have the honor of introducing to the American reader. Much more voluminous treatises exist, it is true, upon this subject, but none, it seems to me, which give with so much clearness and well-chiselled outlines the salient and practical features of the disease. No disorder of the kidneys is considered, with the excep- tion of scarlatinous nephritis, but such as may be strictly in- cluded under the denomination of Bright's disease. Its comi)rehension and study are greatly facilitated by the reduction to three forms of the numerous and perplexing classifications, often contradictory, which exist amongst most authors. I hope, therefore, as I believe, that the work will be of value to the medical scientist and practitioner, in the diagno- sis and pathology of this important affection. H. B. Millard. New York, September^ 1878.