The pathology of the contracted granular kidney : and the associated cardio-arterial changes / by Sir George Johnson.

  • Johnson, George, 1818-1896.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The pathology of the contracted granular kidney : and the associated cardio-arterial changes / by Sir George Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The discovery of the structure and function of the arterioles and of the vaso-motor nervous system—the greatest and most important addition to our know- ledge of the circulation since the time of Harvey—has thrown an entirely new light upon pathological subjects so entirely diverse and ajDparently discon- nected, as, amongst others, ist, liaynaud's disease; 2nd, the immediate cause of the arrested circulation and death from apncea, badly named as23hyxia; 3rd, the true nature and proximate cause of the collapse stage of cholera; and 4th, the cause of hypertrophy of the left ventricle of the heart, which is so frequently associated with the contracted granular kidney. The connecting link between these diverse conditions is the stop-cock action of the muscular-walled arterioles, the sj'stemic arterioles being concerned in the first and fourth of the above-mentioned pathological con- ditions, and the pulmonary arterioles in the second and third. In the first part of this treatise I have described and illustrated, more minutely than I believe has hitherto been done, the arterial changes in the granular kidney and throughout the s^'stem which