Also by the same Author ON DROPSY, AND ITS CONNECTION WITH DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS, HEART, LUNGS, AND LIVER. Illustrated by numerous drawings from the microscope. Third edition, 8vo, 12s. 6d. RENAL DISEASES; A CLINICAL GUIDE TO THEIR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT. Post 8vo, 7s. AIDS TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS BY W. R. BASHAM, M.D., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; FORMERLY CENSOR AND CROONIAN LECTURER, AIDS TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS. IT has appeared to the author that what has been of use to himself may be of advantage to others. For many years it has been his custom to make drawings of the objects seen in the urinary sediment of every case of renal disease in which he has been consulted. These drawings in process of time have become very numerous, and embrace almost every form of disease of these organs. They have been, and continue to be, faithful indicators of the probable course of those diseases in which an albuminous state of the urine is a prominent characteristic. Both in his clinical teaching and in his clinical examinations the author has often been surprised at the perplexity of students in comprehending the nature and character of these several objects seen in albuminous urine. Even in consultations he has been equally surprised at the mistakes into which those not constantly at work with the microscope unconsciously fall. With the purpose of rendering the value of a microscopic examination of urinary sediments the greater to those whose time may not permit or whose opportunities |