Excerpt from A Treatise on Bright's Disease of the Kidneys: Its Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment As I have shown in the context, the term Bright's disease, as understood by Bright himself, does not comprise every condition of nephritis, but as most of the conditions I have described are generally understood as belonging to Bright's disease, I have given my work this title, though the nomenclature is by no means exact. I have usually employed instead, throughout the book, the word nephritis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.