On the Minute Anatomy and Pathology of Bright's Disease of the Kidney, and on the Relation of the Renal Disease to Those Diseases of the Liver, Heart, and Arteries, with Which it is Commonly Associated

THERE is, perhaps, no single disease which has excited more interest among all classes of the profession, than that form of renal degeneration, the existence of which was first made known by Dr. Bright, and which has been named after that distinguished physician.In all that relates to the clinical study of Bright's disease, the labours of Dr. Bright, and of his followers, have been attended by an amount of success almost unprecedented in the history of any other disease.Pathologists, however, have not as yet succeeded in obtaining a knowledge of the precise nature of those changes which the kidney undergoes in the course of this disease.This want of success may, perhaps, be attributed to the fact, that those who have entered upon the investigation, have done so with a certain preconceived notion on the subject, which has induced them VOL.XXIX.