Abstract
Nephrorrhaphy for the fixation of movable kidney has had an extensive trial at the hands of the surgical profession ever since the operation was suggested and first practiced by E. Hahn of Berlin. There can be but little doubt that the operation has been performed many times unnecessarily in cases in which the symptoms were not produced by the displaced organ, and consequently failed to procure the expected relief. Nephropexy is a legitimate and established surgical procedure in all cases in which it can be established that the kidney is not only displaced, but is at the same time the direct cause of the manifold symptoms which such a condition may and often will produce. The many modifications which the operation has undergone is perhaps the best proof that the results heretofore obtained by the different methods devised have not proved satisfactory. In nearly all of the operations the kidney
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