The Illinois Medical Journal - v. 21 Author:Illinois State Medical Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Illinois Medical Journal THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY Entered At The Springfield Postoefice As Second-class Matteb Vol. XXI... more » Springfield, Ill., January, 1912 No. i ORIGINAL ARTICLES PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF NEPHROPTOSIS William Billington, M.B., M.S. (london), F.R.C.S. (p!ngland) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND My first duty is to thank the members of the Chicago Medical Society for the very high honor they have conferred on me in Bo cordially inviting me to give this address. It is an honor that I appreciate very highly and I esteem it a great privilege to have been afforded an opportunity of addressing you on a subject in which I am deeply interested and which it is certain will become increasingly interesting to medicnl men generally in proportion as they give it their serious attention. Nephrop- tosis is a common condition and examples of chronic ill-health associated with it occur in every doctor's practice. A wide clinical and operative experience of renal mobility leads me to assert most emphatically that it is a real and potent cause of chronic ill-health and 'is responsible for a serious fall in the working efficiency of many otherwise healthy people. In this address I propose to confine my remarks to a few of the more important points in connection with nephroptosis that have arisen in connection with my own work and by a brief analysis of 100 consecutive cases to give you an idea of the kind of people submitted to operation. Movable Kidney and Enteroptosis.—Within recent years much attention has been devoted to general visceroptosis and a useful division into congenital and acquired types has been made. I do not propose to enter at all into the many problems connected with general visceroptosis excepting in so far as it is necessa...« less