Trench Nephritis: A Record of Five Cases

there appeared a short description of what was called a new disease occurring amongst soldiers wlho had been for a considerable time in the trenches.Certainly from my own clinical hospital experience I had not met with suclh a symptom-complex, and as the etiology of this condition has up to tlle present remained uncertain, a careful record of cases is desirable. CASE I.A soldier, aged 33, was sent down from the front suffering from acute nephritis.He had been in the trenches for seven weeks, and had often been up to his waist in water.He stated that the onset was sudden, and that he first noticed a feeling of chilliness and swelling of face and feet.The urinary changes