Elements of pathological anatomy . Induration of the kidney, like mollespence, may be divided into two spe-cies, one of them being attended with increased vascularity, the other with re-markable pallor. In the former, the organ is generally enlarged ; in the latter,diminished. In the pale induration, the kidney occasionally retains its naturalstructure, exceptingthat itis unusually firm; sometimes, indeed, as will be shownhereafter, it may even be of a fibro-cartilaginous consistence. When both organsare thus affected, very little urine will be secreted, and the patient will com-plain of the v
Elements of pathological anatomy . Induration of the kidney, like mollespence, may be divided into two spe-cies, one of them being attended with increased vascularity, the other with re-markable pallor. In the former, the organ is generally enlarged ; in the latter,diminished. In the pale induration, the kidney occasionally retains its naturalstructure, exceptingthat itis unusually firm; sometimes, indeed, as will be shownhereafter, it may even be of a fibro-cartilaginous consistence. When both organsare thus affected, very little urine will be secreted, and the patient will com-plain of the various symptoms which characterize chronic disease of the otherviscera. Scirrhus of the kidney is a very rare disease ; I have met with it only oncein the human subject, though I have several times seen it in the hog. Theorgan, in the case to which I refer, was at least six times the usual bulk. Itadhered to the liver, colon, and wall of the abdomen, and formed a big tumorwhich could be prominently felt in the right lumbar regio
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