. Treatment of the diseases of children. ere forms of chronic diffuse nephritis I have yet to seea diuretic of the slightest value, as I have within the last three monthsseen two cases in which every possible diuretic and combination ofdiuretics were used without avail. Both of these patients were girls;one terminated fatally after six weeks illness. The second girl, threeyears old, was a patient in the Babies Hospital, in my service. She 364 THE URINE presented the typical picture of advanced chronic nephritis (see ). The usual treatment with calomel, salines, colonic flushings,and hot
. Treatment of the diseases of children. ere forms of chronic diffuse nephritis I have yet to seea diuretic of the slightest value, as I have within the last three monthsseen two cases in which every possible diuretic and combination ofdiuretics were used without avail. Both of these patients were girls;one terminated fatally after six weeks illness. The second girl, threeyears old, was a patient in the Babies Hospital, in my service. She 364 THE URINE presented the typical picture of advanced chronic nephritis (see ). The usual treatment with calomel, salines, colonic flushings,and hot packs and diuretics failed to make any impression. Theurine presented the usual changes and was very scanty. After twoweeks of treatment without making any impression on the case, thechild becoming constantly worse, the Edebohls operation of decapsu-lation of the kidney was performed by Dr. William A. Downes, ofNew York City. The kidney secretion gradually increased, theurine showing but a trace of albumin two weeks after the
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