Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-12-08
MOVABLE KIDNEY.

The kidneys are held against the
muscles of the back by the tissues
which lie about them. The most eff
cient of the supporting structures is the
peritOneum-tke membrane of which
holds the intestines in place. Next In
Importance is the perirenal 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. II
there is no fat aroun the kidney the
calf is too young and the veal is held
to be unwholesome. If the carcass Of
a COW has no fat around the kidney the
probability is that the inspector will
condemn it as too emaciated to be used
for canned meat.
Fat wedges the kidney into its prop
er position. The support of surround
ing organs helps to maintain the kid
neys in place. The kidney is always
movable. 1t is constantly shifting its
position within narrow borders. Every
Inhalation moves it down a little. Ev-
cry eXhalatiOn carries 1t back up. A
slight range of movement does not
make the kidney a movable kidney.
In Il very arbitrary way the scien-
fists fix the following definitions: If
a kidney can be moved low enough SO
that it's lowest part is on a level with
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If it can be pushed below that level and
in addition a 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 of the public bone at the lower
| end of the abdomen. Measure the cir
cumference of h body at the lowest
level of the 10th rib. Divide the first
of these figures by the second and null
tiply the result by 100. If the index
thus calculated is more than n you
are liable to, have movable kidney. IF
it is under IS you are not liable to have
1T. AS many women and few men have
lndlces over "a, it follows that women
frequently have movable kidneys. men
rarely. Movable kidney is of little I'M
portance from the health standpoint.
sometimes a kidney pitches forward
and downward in uch a way as to
bend the ureter sharply. In such
cases the ureter is stopped and colicky
pains may result. This is the excep-
ton. The rule is hat movable and
c no symptoms. You may be called
as a juror some day and you nay have
to 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 III
common knowledge and opinion as on
the evidence in the case. AS a juror
o are justified in starting with the
conviction that injuries rarely produce
movable n floating Kidneys and that
movable and floating kidneys rarely
produce symptoms.
pton1s of movable kidneys are those OF
neurasthenia Of hysteria. Mental
anxiety leading to melancholia some
lines follows the discovery of a NOV
able abdominal tumor. This applies
especially to Movable kidney. Opera
ton for movable kidney is not advis-
able in most cases. A special corset
holds the kidney in place in some cases.