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When the urine is described as simply albuminous 

 it is to be inferred that there was no discoloration 

 from any admixture of blood. The albuminous 

 matters which it contained could only have been 

 derived from the right kidney ; for the left ureter 

 was included in the same ligature with the blood- 

 vessels of the left kidney at the time of removing 

 that organ ; and the existence of ecchymoses in 

 the substance and on the surface of the remaining 



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kidney, the presence of bloody and fibrinous co- 

 agula and of albuminous urine in the right ureter 

 (as observed in Experiments 3, 7, and 9), and the 

 fact of highly albuminous urine being, in the last- 

 mentioned experiment, found in the right ureter, 

 while the fluid taken from the bladder presented no 

 albuminous impregnation, taken conjointly, render 

 it impossible to doubt the accuracy of this state- 

 ment. 



These experiments, then, show that a sudden and 

 considerable increase in the supply of blood to a part 

 does occasion immediate pathological phenomena, in 

 this respect differing materially from a slow and 

 gradual determination of blood ; and a comparison 

 of the amount of increase in the weight of the re- 

 maining kidney with the nature of the effused 

 matters will also prove that here, as after venous ob- 

 struction, there is no constant connection between 

 these two circumstances; the only cause to which 

 we can attribute the varieties noticed in the patho- 

 logical effects being a difference in the degree of 

 lateral pressure exercised by the impeded capillary 

 blood-columns. This difference will, of course, 



