Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes, Calculus: And Other Affections of the Urinary Organs; With Remarks on the Importance of Attending to the State of the Urine in Organic Diseases of the Kidney and Bladder Organic diseases of the urinary organs are so fi'e quently associated with derangements of the urine itself, that in a great variety of instances the former cannot be advantageously treated without taking into consideration the latter. Hence, with the view chiefly of offering some remarks in this part of the subject, the author has been induced in the present edition to give a summary sketch of the principal diseases of the kidney and bladder.* In this edition also an attempt has been made to recapitulate the practical inferences deducible from the phenomena and properties of the urine. Before he made this attempt, the author was not aware of the difficulties he had to encounter; and he regrets to say, that from the utter impossibility of giving an intelligible description of many of the appearances. 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.