Drops Kidney Disease
Drops - Kidney Disease The Association Of Dropsy With Kidney Disease Is Of Such Frequent Occurrence That It Is Often Difficult To Convince Both Patients And Phy Sicians That "bright's Disease" Can Exist When Dropsy Is Absent. If We Go Through The List Of Diseases Of The Kidney We Find ...
Endemic Haematuria Or Hematuria
Endemic Haematuria Or Hematuria. This Term Is Applied To Forms Of Limmaturia Chiefly Met With In Tropical Countries, And Is Dependent Upon The Presence Of A Parasite. The Bilharzia Hcematobia Was First Discovered In The Portal Vessels Of Man In 1851, By Dr. Bilharz, Of Cairo, After Whom Cobbold Subse ...
Epididymitis And Orchitis
Epididymitis And Orchitis. Inflammation Of The Testicle Occurring In The Course Of Acute Or Chronic Gonorrhoea Is Very Frequent. Its Presence Is Usually An Indi Cation Of Extension Of Infection To The Deep Urethra. Exceptions To This Rule Are Met With, But The Proposition Isr Accurate In Its General Application. ...
Estimation Of Phosphoric Acid
Estimation Of Phosphoric Acid. To Urine Which Contains The Phosphates As Acid Phosphates, A Solution Of Uranium Acetate Or Nitrate Is Added Until An Excess Of The Reagent First Becomes Appreciable. If The Nitrate Be Used Free Nitric Acid Is Formed, And Causes A Part Of The Precipitated Uranium Phos ...
Etiology Acute Degenerationof
Etiology - Acute Degeneration Of The Kidneys. The Introduction Of Certain Poisons Into The Body Is Regularly Fol Lowed By Changes In The Cells Of The Viscera. The Poisons Which Exert This Effect Are Ordinarily Mineral Poisons, Such As Arsenic, Mer Cury, And Phosphorus; Or The Poisons Of Infectious Diseases, ...
Etiology Acute Exuadativenephritis
Etiology - Acute Exuadative Nephritis. Acute Exudative Nephritis Is Frequently A Primary Inflammation, Occurring Either After Exposure To Cold Or Without Discoverable Cause. It May Complicate Any One Of The Infections Inflammations Or Diseases, But Is Especially Common With Scarlet Fever. It Is One Of The Forms Of Nephritis Which ...
Etiology Acute Productiveor
Etiology - Acute Productive Or Diffuse Nephritis. This Is The Most Serious And Important Of The Forms Of Acute Ne Phritis For The Reason That Its Lesions Are From The First Of A Permanent Character. It Does Not Follow Exudative Nephritis, Nor Is It Merely A Modification Of It; From ...
Etiology Acute Prostatitis
Etiology - Acute Prostatitis. The Causes Of Acute Prostatitis, As Outlined By Some Authors, Con Stitute A Rather Complex Subject, Presenting Many Elements Of Im Practicality And Sources Of Confusion. Practical Clinical Experience Shows That While Many Predisposing Elements Necessarily Enter Into Consideration, Acute Prostatitis Is Precipitated In The Majority ...
Etiology Chronic Prostatitis
Etiology - Chronic Prostatitis. The Causes Of Chronic Prostatitis May Be Conveniently Grouped In The Following Table: It Is Hardly Necessary To Expatiate Upon The Role Of H.yperfumia In The Etiology Of Chronic Prostates. It Is Not Likely That Any Of The Factors Enumerated As Predisposing Causes Can Whela Acting ...
Etiology Hypertrophy Ofthe
Etiology - Hypertrophy Of The Prostate. Few Pathological Conditions Indeed Have Been The Subject Of A Greater Variance Of Opinion As To Their Etiology, Than Enlargement Of The Prostate. The Opinions Of Authorities Have Varied From The Ag Nostic Assertion That In The Present State Of Our Knowledge We Are ...
Etiology Peurperal Eclampsia
Etiology - Peurperal Eclampsia. A Number Of Theories Have Been Entertained As To The Causes Of Puerperal Eclampsia. It Must Be Confessed That None Of Them Is Satisfactory, And That The Subject Is Still Obscure. The Most 'promi Nent Explanations Are As Follows : 1. Pressure On The Renal Veins ...
Etiology Tuberculosis Ofthe
Etiology - Tuberculosis Of The Prostate. In The Primary Cases It Is Possible That An Hereditary Or Acquired Tubercular Predisposition May Exist. But The Most Important And Determining Factor Is Usually Chronic Follicular Inflammation. That The General Health Of The Patient Is Usually Below Par, Is A Matter Of Almost ...
Etiology And Pathology Chyluria
Etiology And Pathology - Chyluria. There Can Be No Doubt That The Evidence At Our Command Allows Of A Division Of Chyluria Into Parasitic And Non-parasitic Varieties ; And The Knowledge That We Now Possess Of The Parasitic Form Enables Us To Surmise The Causes For The Non-parasitic Group. Parasitic ...
Examination Of The Patient
Examination Of The Patient For The Source Of Hematuria Or Haematuria. 1. Physical Examination.—the Physician Will Do Well To Make A Thorough Examination Of All Accessible Parts Of The Urinary Tract Before Instituting Any Instrumental Exploration As To The Cause Of 11maturia. I Hold Very Strongly That It Is Culpable ...
Examination Of The Urethra
Examination Of The Urethra. After Completing The Examination Of The Bladder And Ureters, The Urethra Is Examined Throughout Its Whole Extent, Beginning With The Internal Orifice, And Proceeding Out To The External One, As The Speculum Is Slowly Withdrawn. As Soon As The Speculum Leaves The Lumen Of The Bladder, ...
Extra Urinary Sources Of Pyuria
Extra-urinary Sources Of Pyuria. The Source Of The Pyuria Which Is Occasioned By An Abscess Burst Ing Into Some Part Of The Urinary Tract Is Usually Located Without Much Difficulty. Much Depends On The Cross-examination Of The Pa Tient Regarding The Onset Of The Trouble. The Symptoms Are Com Pounded ...
Extroversion Of The Bladder
Extroversion Of The Bladder. Among The Most Distressing Deformities To Which The Human Body Is Liable Is That Where The Roof Of The Urethra Is Absent In Conjunction With Fission And Extroversion Of The Bladder. No More Deplorable Condition Can Be Imagined, For Not Only Does The Individual, More Frequently ...
Female Bladder
Female Bladder. The Female Bladder Occupies The Cavity Of The Pelvis Anterior To The Uterus And Broad Ligaments, And Above The Vagina. It Differs Decidedly From The Male Bladder In Its Topographical Relations And The Form It Assumes Upon Expansion. Writers Differ In Their Statements As To The Form Of ...
Female Urethra Anatomy
Female Urethra Anatomy. The Female Urethra Is From 3 To 4 Cm. (1-1- To 1+ In.) Long And 7 Mm. (4 In.) Wide. It Is Almost Straight, With A Slightly Sigmoid Curve. Its External Orifice Normally Appears As A Vertical Slit, The Section Of Its Canal Proper Stellate, While Its ...
Fistulce Following Punctures And
Fistulce Following Punctures And Wounds. Fistulce Following Punctures And Wounds.—cock's Operation Of Puncturing The Bladder Above The Prostate, And Proceedings Of A Like Nature Through This Part, Have Been Followed By Fistulous Communica Tions. In These Cases It Must, However, Be Remembered There Is Usually The Complication Of A Urethral ...
Fistulous Communication Between The
Fistulous Communication Between The Bladder And Intestines. Class 1. —fistulous Communications Between The Bladder And In Testines Of A Non-malignant Character May Be Caused In Three Ways : (a) By The Passage Of Foreign Bodies From The Intestines Into The Bladder; These Have Been Referred To In A Previous Section. ...
Folliculitis And Peri Urethral Phlegmon
Folliculitis And Peri-urethral Phlegmon. These Conditions Are Best Treated Upon Conservative Principles In The Majority Of Cases. As Soon As Either Of These Complications Manifests Itself, Injections And All Stimulating Methods Should Be Stopped, And, If Possible, The Patient Should Be Kept Per Fectly Quiet. Hot Applications Will Usually Bring ...
Foreign Bodies In The
Foreign Bodies In The Bladder. By Accident Or Design Foreign Bodies Occasionally Become Lodged Within The Bladder. Among The Miscellaneous Articles That Have Been Found In This Position I Can Recall To Mind Pins, Needles, Wires, A Lucifer Match, A Knitting-needle, A Slate-pencil, A Feather, A Bulb Headed Grass, Pieces ...
General Dilatation Of The
General Dilatation Of The Urethra Relaxation Of The Urethra As A Whole Is Most Frequently Observed In Cases Where Coitus Has Taken Place Per Urethram, Or Where The Urethra Has Been Dilated By The Finger For The Examination Of The Blad Der, Or For The Extraction Of A Stone. Cases ...
Gonococcal Or Specific
Gonococcal Or Specific Predisposing Causes.—these Are Precisely The Same As Those Enumerated For Simple Urethritis. Exciting Causes.—the Author Will Not Enter Into A Discussion Of The Various Arguments Relative To The Specificity Of The Gonococcus. It Is Sufficient To Say That Certain Types Of Virulent Urethritis Are Characterized By The ...
Gonorrheal Rheumatism
Gonorrheal Rheumatism. The Treatment Of This Complication Is Not Especially Satisfac Tory, Being Of A Palliative Rather Than A Curative Character. The Treatment For The Urethritis Should Usually Be Persisted In, For, As A Rule, The Sooner The Local Condition Improves, The Sooner The Rheumatic Complication Will Yield. If, However, ...
Gonorrheal Rheumatism
Gonorrheal Rheumatism. Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism Is An Important, Although Relatively In Frequent, Complication Or Sequela Of Gonorrhoea. The Possibility Of Its Occurrence Is Disputed By Some Surgeons, But The Majority Of Authorities Admit That Some Individuals, Who Are Perhaps Free From Predisposition To Ordinary Rheumatic Troubles, Are Attacked With Severe Pain ...
Hematuria Or Haematuria
Hematuria Or Haematuria. Stands In Relation To This Phase Of The Disorder As Hmmoptysis Does To Pulmonary Phthisis ; It Is Frequently An Early Symptom, Though The Amount Of Blood Lost In This Way Is Generally Small. The Profuse Bleeding Of Urinary Tuberculosis Is Usually Asso Ciated With Its Later ...
Hematuria Or Haematuria_2
Hematuria Or Haematuriadefinition.—blood Derived From Any Part Of The Urinary System— Whether From The Secreting, Conducting, Or Collecting Divisions—and Passed Pure Or Mixed With The Urine, Constitutes The Symptom Known As This Symptom, Though Occurring At One Time Or Other In The Course Of All The More Serious Diseases Affecting ...
Hydatid Of The Kidney
Hydatid Of The Kidney. Cysts Of This Kind Connected With The Kidney Are Of Comparatively Rare Occurrence, And Are More Frequently Met With In Other Parts Of The Body. As Thomas" Observes, "it Is Generally Found To Exist With Greater Or Less Frequency Wherever Man And His Faithful Friend And ...
Hydronephrosis
Hydronephrosis. Hydronephrosis Is A Term Applied To The Dilatation Which The Pelvis And Calyces Of The Kidney Undergo By The Pressure Of The Urine When The Latter Is Prevented Escaping In A Natural Manner Into The Bladder. It Is As If A Band Were Gradually Drawn Round The Ureter While ...
Hyperaemia Or Heperemia Of
Hyperaemia Or Heperemia Of The Prostate. The Line Of Demarcation Between Prostatic Hyperaemia, Active Or Passive, And True Inflammation Is Often Rather Indefinite. From A Pathological, And More Especially From A Clinical, Standpoint, There Are, Nevertheless, Many Cases Of Prostatic Disease Which Fall Rather Under The Head Of Active Or ...
Idiopathic Oxaluria Oxalurianervosa
Idiopathic Oxaluria - Oxaluria Nervosa. Putting Aside What May Be Termed The Physiological, Accidental, And Vicarious Causes Just Mentioned For The Production Of Oxalate Of Lime Crystals In The Urine, There Remains A Class Of Cases In Which A Constant Supply Of This Salt Appears In The Urine, And It ...
Inflammation Of The Bladder
Inflammation Of The Bladder. Cystitis, Or Inflammation Of The Bladder, Is An Affection Of Fre Quent Occurrence. It Is A Disorder Which Often Requires Some Me Chanical Management, Such As The Use Of The Catheter Or Washing Out The Bladder; And Therefore, For Its Successful Treatment, Much De Pends Not ...
Inflammatory Affections Of The
Inflammatory Affections Of The Urethra. Inflammation Of The Female Urethra Is A Disease Of Much Greater Frequency Than Is Usually Suspected Or Diagnosed. The Explanation Of This Lies In The Fact That Patients Complaining Of Characteristic In Flammatory Symptoms Are Not Often Subjected To A Painstaking En Doscopic Examination. Numbers ...
Injuries Of The Ereters
Injuries Of The Ereters. Protected As They Are By The Parts Surrounding Them, It Might Ap Pear That Lesions Of These Tubes Are Well-nigh Impossible. This, However, Is Not The Case, For We Shall Find Examples Constantly Occur Ring Of Their Rupture, Laceration, And Division. Rupture Of A Ureter Is ...
Injuries Of The Kidney
Injuries Of The Kidney. Protected As They Are, Partly By Bony Walls, And More Extensively By The Muscles And Fascia; Constituting The Abdominal Parietes, Le Sions Of These Organs Are Comparatively Rare When Wo Consider The Frequency With Which The Trunk Is Exposed To Injuries Of All Kinds. Both Civil ...
Injuries Of The Prostate
Injuries Of The Prostate. Traumatism Of The Prostate, Aside From That Incidental To Surgical Operations And Manipulations, Is Exceptional. Contusions And Lacer Ation Of The Prostate Due To Direct Force From Falls Or Blows Are Espe Cially Rare On Account Of The Situation Of The Organ, Protected As It Is ...
Internal Medication In Acute
Internal Medication In Acute Urethritis. The Range Of Application Of Internal Medicaments In Acute Ure Thritis Is Not Very Extensive, The So-called Specific Remedies Being Espe Cially Limited In Number. During The Increasing Stage Of The Disease There Is Apt To Be Considerable Fever, And The Tincture Of Aconite Or ...
Lithority Or Lotholapaxy
Lithority Or Lotholapaxy. I Will Proceed To Consider The Treatment Of Stone In The Bladder, And As Lithotrity, Litholapaxy, Or The Crushing Operation, As Now Prac Tised, Is The One More Generally Adopted And The Safest, It Will Be Given First Place. If Stones Were Detected When Small, There Is ...
Local Medication In Acute
Local Medication In Acute Urethritis. Local Medication In Acute Urethritis Is Best Accomplished By Means Of Injections. A Great Deal Of Discussion Has Been Evoked Regarding The Advisa Bility Of The Injection Method Of Treatment In Gonorrhoea. There Is A Deep-grounded, And In Many Instances, It Must Be Confessed, Justi ...
Localization
Localization. The Predilection Of Stricture For Different Portions Of The Canal Has Not Been Clearly Explained By The Various Authorities Upon The Subject. The Explanation Usually Given For The Relatively Greater Fre Quency Of Occurrence Of Stricture In Various Portions Of The Canal— More Particularly In The Bulbo-membranous Region—is The ...
Malformations Of The Urethra
Malformations Of The Urethra Commonest Of All Malformations Of The Urethra Is A Marked Lat Eral Displacement Or Obliquity Of The External Orifice. When The Ure Thral Orifice Appears Distinctly On One Side, There Is Apt To Be A Shal Low Vertical Fissure At A Corresponding Point On The Opposite ...
Malignant Disease Of The
Malignant Disease Of The Kidney. I Have Already Expressed My Belief That The Onset Symptom In The Majority Of Cases Of Malignant Disease Of The Kidney Is Hematuria, Also That Renal Pain Is Not At First Experienced. The Consideration Of This Disease, Therefore, Fell Into The Group Of Symptomless But ...
Malignant Disease Of The
Malignant Disease Of The Kidney. Our Knowledge Of The Varieties Of Malignant Disease Of The Kidney In The Adult Is At Present Inexact; The Clinical Picture Of The Disease Must, Therefore, Be Uncertain. The Commonest Form Of Malignant Dis Ease In The Adult Kidney Is Encephaloid Cancer, But It Has ...
Measures Employed For The
Measures Employed For The Removal Of Stone From The Bladder Other Than By Crushing Alone. In Exceptional Cases, Operations Other Than Lithotrity May Be Ne Cessary, And I Shall Consider Those Varieties Of Lithotomy Which At The Present Time Are More Usually Selected. They Include Those Where The Bladder Is ...
Metastic Cystitis
Metastic Cystitis. Metastatic Cystitis. —it Is Not Uncommon To Find Cystitis, In Various Degrees, Occurring As A Consequence Of Gonorrhoeal Urethritis, And, Like Other Metastatic Inflammations, The Primary Disorder Often Abates As The Change In Locality Takes Place. In The Slighter Forms Of Cystitis Resulting From Gonorrhoea, Or Those Pro ...
Methods Of Examining The
Methods Of Examining The Female Urinary Organs. The Female Bladder, Urethra, And Ureters Are Open To Investigations By Three Principal Methods : (1) By The Examination Of The Secre Tions; (2) By Palpation; (3) By Inspection. 1. Examination Of The Secretions.—the Methods Employed In The Examination Of Secretions Relate To ...
Micro Chemical Characters And Tests
Micro-chemical Characters And Tests For Pus. Pus Is Partly Composed Of A Liquid Portion—the Liquor Puris—and Partly Of Solid Cellular Particles—the Pus Corpuscles. The Liquor Puris, Which Is Merely Liquor Sanguinis, Contains A Variable Amount Of Albuminous Constituents, And Urine, Therefore, Which Contains Pus Must Also Show Evidence Of Albumin ...
Micro Chemical Tests
Micro-chemical Tests. Oxalic Acid Is Present In The Urine In Minute Quantities In Combination With Potash, Soda, And Lime, Two Centigrams Being Passed In Twenty-four Hours (fiirbringer). When In Excess A Crystal Line Deposit Of Calcium Oxalate Is Precipitated. Microscopically The Crystals Are Of Two Kinds, The More Com Mon ...
Morbid Anatomy Acuteexuadative
Morbid Anatomy - Acute Exuadative Nephritis. In A Nephritis Of This Type We Should Expect That The Inflammatory Products, The Serum, White And Red Blood-cells, And Coagulable Mat Ter From The Blood-plasma, Would Collect In The Malpighian Bodies And Tubes, Or Infiltrate The Stroma Between The Tubes; And That Of ...
Morbid Anatomy Acuteproductive
Morbid Anatomy - Acute Productive Or Diffuse Nephritis. The Kidneys Are Increased In Size, The Capsules Are Not Adherent, The Surfaces Are Smooth. The Cortical Portion Is Red, Or White, Or Mottled. The Mucous Membrane Of The Pelvis Is Sometimes Con Gested. Of The Tubules In The Cortex, In Some ...
Morbid Anatomy Acuteprostatitis
Morbid Anatomy - Acute Prostatitis. Comparatively Little Is Known Of The Early Stages Of Acute Prostatic Inflammation, Especially Of The Follicular Or Parenchymatous Form. The Condition Is Not A Fatal One And The Opportunities For Observation Are Consequently Not Numerous. As Far As Determined, However, The Process Appears To Be ...
Morbid Anatomy Calculusof
Morbid Anatomy - Calculus Of The Prostate. Concretions Of The First Variety Are Found In The Prostate Post Mortem, In Cases In Which There Have Been No Symptoms Referable To The Organ During Life. Minute Concretions Of This Kind Are Some Times Found In The Urine. They Are First Of ...
Morbid Anatomy Chroniccongestion
Morbid Anatomy - Chronic Congestion Of The Kidneys. The Kidneys Are Of Medium Size, Or Rather Large. Their Weight Is Increased Somewhat Out Of Proportion To The Increase In Size. The Color Is Dark-red, The Consistence Is Very Hard, The Are Smooth, The Capsules Are Not Adherent. The Congestion Is ...
Morbid Anatomy Chronicdiffuse
Morbid Anatomy - Chronic Diffuse Prostatitis. Some Thirty Years Ago The Elder Gross Said That The Morbid Anat Omy Of Chronic Prostatitis Was Something Which Did Not Exist. If We Were To Accept Many Of The So-called Cases Of Prostatorrhcea As Chronic Inflammation Of The Prostate The Opinion Of This ...
Morbid Anatomy Chronicproductive
Morbid Anatomy - Chronic Productive Nephritis Without The Kidneys.—the Larger Number Of The Affected Organs Are Found After Death To Be Diminished In Size; The Two Kidneys Together May Not Weigh More Than Two Ounces. The Capsules Are Adherent; The Surfaces Of The Kidneys Are Roughened Or Nodular, The Cortex ...
Morbid Anatomy Chronicproductive
Morbid Anatomy - Chronic Productive Or Diffuse Nephritis With Gross Appearance Of The Kidney . —there Is Considerable Variety In The Gross Appearance Of The Kidneys. The Types Which I Have Seen Most Frequently Are As Follows: 1. Large White Kidneys, Weighing Together Sixteen Ounces Or More, The Capsule Adherent ...
Morbid Anatomy Ofthe
Morbid Anatomy - Of The Hypertrophied Prostate. On Dissection The Hypertrophied Prostate Is Usually Found To Be Hard And Indurated As Compared With The Normal Consistency Of The Organ. Sometimes, On The Other Hand, Although Considerably En Larged, Its Texture Is Comparatively Soft And Loose. This Is Usually, However, In ...