X INTKODUCTORY REMARKS. 



printed, believing it to be clue to myself and others 

 to allow them to remain as published. But as the 

 first is extracted from a little pamphlet on Bright's 

 Disease of the Kidney, I have merely retained the 

 passages bearing most directly on the subject of this 

 publication. 



Among the questions examined are the Mecha- 

 nism of Absorption and Effusion, the Existence of an 

 Extra- vascular Circulation, the Nature and Prin- 

 ciples of Treatment of Inflammation and the Allied 

 Disorders of the Circulation, and the Pathology of 

 Albuminuria, Calcareous Degeneration, Epilepsy, 

 Apoplexy, and some forms of Nervous Disorder. 

 The following is the order in which they have 

 been investigated. 



1. On the Mode of Production of Albuminuria 

 in Bright's Disease of the Kidney. (Page 1.) 



2. Researches into the Connection existing be- 

 tween an unnatural degree of Compression of the 

 Blood contained in the Renal Vessels, and the pre- 

 sence of certain Abnormal Matters in the Urine. 

 (Page 23.) 



3. On the Mechanism of Absorption. (Page 53.) 



4. On certain points in the Mechanism and Phy- 

 siology of the Circulation of the Blood. (Page 63.) 



:'). On the Nature and Principles of Treatment of 



