This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...little or no pain, and have had recently under my care a young lady who never had pain at all, till the kidney was punctured, and the disease thus diffused into the perinephric tissues. And, as I have already pointed out, the emaciation, careworn expression, fever, night-sweats, and anorexia, upon which he lays stress, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...little or no pain, and have had recently under my care a young lady who never had pain at all, till the kidney was punctured, and the disease thus diffused into the perinephric tissues. And, as I have already pointed out, the emaciation, careworn expression, fever, night-sweats, and anorexia, upon which he lays stress, as being distinctive of tubercle, may, at any rate in the early stages of the disease, all be absent. When the bladder becomes infected, micturition is still more frequent, and often terribly painful, but at this stage the diagnosis ceases to have the same interest for the surgeon, as the time for his aid has gone by. I will now remind you that we have considered the following affections of the kidneys: hydronephrosis; pyonephrosis, due to the suppuration of a hydronephrosis, to injury to the kidney, to calculus, and to acute and chronic tuberculosis; pyelitis; renal abscess; perinephric abscess; calculus; renal colic; calculous suppression; simple cysts; simple conglomerate cysts; and hydatids. For all these conditions, puncture through the loin, and lumbar incision, have to be discussed. I have already sufficiently referred to needling for calculus, which is one kind of puncture. I have also cilled your attention to the precautions to be taken in performing aspiration by trocar and canula, but in this connection let me add two warnings: First, never, under any circumstances, use for exploratory puncture that surgical abomination a grooved needle, for it will allow infiltration, or infection of all the tissues through which it brings the fluid. Always use a thoroughly aseptic trocar and canula, and a trustworthy aspirator, which will not admit air as the fluid is withdrawn; or use a simple trocar and canula, with full Listerian precautions, ...
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Add this copy of The Surgery of the Kidneys. Being the Harveian Lectures to cart. $150.00, good condition, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Charles Criffin.
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Some spots to cloth and faint trace of white call numbers on spine; old ink signature at head of title; very good. vii, 102 pp. Nineteen illustrations. 8vo,
