Oxaluria / by Dr Debout d'Estrées.

  • Debout d'Estrées, Albert-Émile, 1841-1916.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Oxaluria / by Dr Debout d'Estrées. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the cure of three weeks and disappeared before he left the place. iVhen returned to London he resumed his same professional duties and his overwork; The Hema- turias returned every Monday but were also pro- duced by violent Exercise. Another cure at Con- trexeville stopped the renal bleeding and enabled him sharp exercise without hematurias, but I advised the patient to leave his hard work in London and to take an easier parish in the coun- try which he did and the renal bleeding ceased. I saw once more this patient in 1904 in Contre- xeville where he came as Chaplain of the English Church. His Hematurias had ceased entirely and he never passed any calculus from his Kidneys no Radiography has been made neither in London nor in Contrexeville where it did not exist in those days. But the other case I have observed in August 1911 is quite different. A young naval officer came from Malta to Contre- xeville after having had two nephritie colics with hematurias and a third one took place on his arrival No calculus was expelled either in London nor at Contrexeville and two Radiographies made in London and at Contrexeville did not show the slig- htest trace of calculi either in the kidneys ureters or bladder noth withstanding the most careful inves- tigations made by DrJosserand, director of our ser- vice of Radiography. The urine which I analysed directly after the last crisis of renal colic only con- tained very big crystals of oxalate of lime — the size of these crystals were quite exceptional as with an