A Case Of Hypernephroma

We take pleasure in announcing that Dr. E.H. Grubbe, the pioneer roentgenologist of Chicago, will contribute a series of papers on X-ray therapy for this department, beginning with the subject of cancer of the uterus. We are also promised a paper or two from Dr. Leroy Thompson, from whose article on iritis we present excerpts in the present number. Dr. Thompson specializes in eye, ear, nose and throat.

BRIGHT’S DISEASE

BRIGHT demonstrated the existence of a morbid species characterized by inflammation of the kidney, albuminuria and oedema. He deemed the different clinical forms which this disease presents different phases of the same morbid condition. Physicians, after him, struck by the difference which these forms assume, subdivided Bright’s disease into two distinct diseases: parenchymatous nephritis and interstitial nephritis.