Abstract
There are numerous clinical classifications of nephritis or Bright's disease. Each author seems to have suggested a different classification, with a resultant complexity of nomenclature that often proves confusing to both student and practitioner. However, if the various classifications are studied in relation to the author's ideas about the disease, it becomes apparent that the differences are more a matter of words than of concept. If one tabulates a number of classifications and rearranges them, as I have recently done for a chapter on nephritis in a new edition of Cecil's textbook of medicine, it is evident that a few fairly simple concepts underlie all of these classifications. All classifications take into consideration a concept of time or duration and so there are acute, subacute and chronic types of nephritis. Of these subacute is the one less definitely demarcated, being at times a name for a type that is, in
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