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Excerpt from Renal Diagnosis in Medicine and Surgery: Being a Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Functional Testing of the Kidney
IN the earliest days of renal surgery, tests of the func tions of the kidneys proved a very necessary corollary to catheterization of the ureters.
The last two decades have seen a growth from the first tentative experiments into a well-established system of present-day renal diagnosis, which has formed the basis of a great and almost unexpected increase of renal surgery.
The various departments and applications of the new diagnostic methods, to the details of which Professor Frisch (urological Department of the Vienna Polyclinic) has always devoted the most careful study, have led to the establishment of a highly individualized physiological diagnosis of the clinical symptoms, based on a sound theoretical basis, in distinction to our former more or less stereotyped indications for treatment.
The aim of recent advances in modern functional renal diagnosis is to substitute a diagnosis based on physiology for empirical rules, to complete the general judgment of the renal functions by topical tests of the various separate functions of the kidney.
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