Marvand, the Surgeon-Major of an Algerian
regiment, reports the case of a young Arab woman who had been
severely injured in the right lumbar region by a weapon called a
"yataghan," an instrument which has only one cutting edge. On
withdrawing this instrument the right kidney was extruded, became
strangulated between the lips of the wound, and caused
considerable hemorrhage. A ligature was put around the base of
the organ, and after some weeks the mass separated. The patient
continued in good health the whole time, and her urinary
secretion was normal. She was discharged in two months completely
recovered. Price mentions the case of a groom who was kicked over
the kidney by a horse, and eighteen months later died of dropsy.
Postmortem examination showed traces of a line of rupture through
the substance of the gland; the preparation was deposited in St.
George's Hospital Museum in London. The case is singular in that
this man, with granular degeneration of the kidney, recovered
from so extensive a lesion, and, moreover, that he remained in
perfect health for over a year with his kidney in a state of
destructive disease. Borthwick mentions a dragoon of thirty who
was stabbed by a sword-thrust on the left side under the short
rib, the sword penetrating the pelvis and wounding the kidney.
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