Abstract
The revelations of modern surgery are daily demonstrating that the ureter, like the appendix vermiformis, has for ages been the cause of numberless fatalities that have been credited to idiopathic causes. Each one of them covers an exceedingly important sphere in abdominal surgery, and to the modern observer it seems strange that both of them should have escaped careful observation all these years. One, although having no known physiologic place in the human economy, plays a very decided pathologic role when affected with disease. The other has a distinct physiologic function to perform, which if interfered with, is liable to cause grave disturbance, if not rapid dissolution. In glancing over the mortality records of the last decade, we are not surprised at the large death roll attributed to the so-called idiopathic peritonitis, especially when we remember that death from disease of, or injury to the ureter, as well as that
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