. Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . \.--^u-. Kidney, chronic interstitial nephritis. (From Coplins Manual of Pathology.) CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS 333 interstitial nephritis, renal cirrhosis, sclerosis of the kidney,granular kidney, gouty kidney, contracted kidney, atrophickidney, are all names used for this disease, while the same termis also applied to (i) a secondary condition follomng parenchy-matous nephritis called also small white kidney, (2) to a primarypathological de
. Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . \.--^u-. Kidney, chronic interstitial nephritis. (From Coplins Manual of Pathology.) CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS 333 interstitial nephritis, renal cirrhosis, sclerosis of the kidney,granular kidney, gouty kidney, contracted kidney, atrophickidney, are all names used for this disease, while the same termis also applied to (i) a secondary condition follomng parenchy-matous nephritis called also small white kidney, (2) to a primarypathological degenerative process, and (3) to the normal seniledegeneration, generally due to renal arteriosclerosis. The lastof these is the normal senile contracted kidney, the rein senileof the French. The term chronic interstitial nephritis is hereapplied to signify a primary pathological degeneration, or per-version of the normal degeneration and not to the secondaryinvolvement of interstitial tissue following parenchymatousnephritis. Etiology.—The usual cause of chronic interstitial nephritisin the aged is excessive work imposed upon the physiologicalcontract
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