Nephrotomy for calculus pyelitis : nephrectomy rightly decided against because of the small percentage of urea, an apparently almost destroyed and useless kidney found to secrete over four and a half times as much urine as the other kidney, death.

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Nephrotomy for calculus pyelitis : nephrectomy rightly decided against because of the small percentage of urea, an apparently almost destroyed and useless kidney found to secrete over four and a half times as much urine as the other kidney, death. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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