Excerpt from A Manual of General Pathology for Students The effect on the kidney varies considerably in different animals. In man, in the acute disease, and always in very severe cases, there may be suppression of the renal secretion, the exact causation of which is not known. Occasionally, in man, fatty degeneration of the renal cortex follows diphtheria. In the rabbit and guinea-pig this does not occur, but it occurs, in some cases, in the cat. In the rabbit the diphtheria poison may produce fatty de generation of the ...
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Excerpt from A Manual of General Pathology for Students The effect on the kidney varies considerably in different animals. In man, in the acute disease, and always in very severe cases, there may be suppression of the renal secretion, the exact causation of which is not known. Occasionally, in man, fatty degeneration of the renal cortex follows diphtheria. In the rabbit and guinea-pig this does not occur, but it occurs, in some cases, in the cat. In the rabbit the diphtheria poison may produce fatty de generation of the liver; in the guinea-pig this does not occur, but one of the characteristic actions of the bacillus in the guinea-pig is the production of double pleural effusion. Which does not contain the bacilli. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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