Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-12-09
MOVABLE KIDNEY.

The kidneys are held against this
muscles Of the back by the tissues
[ which lie about them. The most eff
! cient Of the supporting structures is the
peritcneum-tke membrane of which
holds the intestines in place. Next in
Importance is the p%erirenal fat. The
zone around the kidney is one of the
places where fat is found if there is fat
anywhere,
One sign by which a meat inspector
judges of the maturity of veal is by
the amount of fat around the kidney. If
there is no fat around the kidney the
calf is too young and the veal is held
to be unwholesorne. If the carcass OF
a COW has no fat around the kidney the
probability is that the inspector will
condemn it as toe e~nnaciated to be used
for canned meat
Fat wedges the kidney into its prop
err position. The supper of surround
ing organS helps to maintain the kid
neys in place. h kidney is always
movable. 1t is constantly shifting it's
position within narrow borders. Every
inhalation moves it down a little. Ev-
cry exhalation carries it back up. A
slight range of movement does not
make the kidney a movable kidney.
In a very arbitrary way the scien-
lists fix the following definitions: If
a kidney can be moved low enough so
that It's lowest part is on a level with
she navel it is called movable kidney.
II 1t can be pushed below that level and
In addition can be moved around in
several directions, it is called floating
kidney. In a floating kidney the per-
ltoneum keeps somewhat behind the
kidney. In movable kidney the peri
toneum is wholly on the front of the
organ
People of a certain build are very Ii
able to develop movable kidney. Meas
ure the distance from the top of the
breast bone at the root of the neck to
the top or the public bone at the lower
end OF the abdomen. Measure the cir
cumference of the body at the lowest
OF these figures by the second and null
uply the result by 100. If the index
mi calculated is more han II you
are liable to have movable kidney. II
IT is under Is you are not liable to have
~. AS many women and few men have
lndlces over n, it follows that women
equen nave movable kidneys, men
rarely. Movable kidney is of little i'm
p~ortance from the health standpoint
sometimes a kidney pitches forward
ana downward in such a way as to
pend the ureter sharply. In such
pains may result. This is the excep-
tlon. The rule is that movable and
Ioatlng Kidneys do not harm and pro-
duce no symptoms. You ma be called
as a juror some day and you may have
10 decide a damage suit in which the
claim is made that a certain injury
produced a movable kidney and the
movable kidney produced a long line
OF symptoms. Jurors, whether it be
proper or improper, are in the habit of
deciding such cases as much on the
common knowledge and opinion as on
the evidence in the case. AS a juror
you are justified in starting with the
convection that INJURIES rarely produce
movable and floating kidneys and that
movable and floating kidneys rarely
produce symptoms.
Anders says: The general SYM
ptoms OF movable kidneys are those Of
neurasthenia of hysteria. Mental
anxiety leading to melancholia some
times follows the discovery of a NOV
able abdominal tumor. This applies
especially to movab kidney. Opera
ton for movable kidney is not advis-
able in most cases. A special corset
holds the kidney in place in some cases.