On dropsy connected with disease of the kidneys (morbus brightii) : and on some other diseases of those organs associated with albuminous and purulent urine : illustrated by numerous drawings from the microscope / by W.R. Basham.

  • Basham, W. R. (William Richard), 1804-1877.
Date:
1862
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Credit: On dropsy connected with disease of the kidneys (morbus brightii) : and on some other diseases of those organs associated with albuminous and purulent urine : illustrated by numerous drawings from the microscope / by W.R. Basham. 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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    different periods of the disorder, irrespective of any change of character which might have taken place in them. The cases have been selected as typical cases of their class. The micro- scope employed has been either one of PowelFs, or one made by Pillischer, with a quarter-inch focal power. The author has with design limited himself to the use of very simple instru- ments and this focal power, because such instruments are within the reach of every practitioner, and may be used by those who are little skilled in microscopic observation. In the employment of the microscope for clinical purposes, the use of the most simple and least complicated instruments should be encou- raged ; for with these, observations may be made quickly, and without loss of time, and every practitioner, with moderate attention, may verify for himself with some degree of certainty the advance or decline of the renal disorder which his patient suffers.