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Lectures on Bright’s disease: with special reference to pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.

London: Smith, Elder, 1873.

Johnson showed that fatty infiltrations of the renal tubules are reflected by the presence of fatty casts and droplets in the urine, thus introducing the concept of lipoid nephrosis associated with nephrotic syndrome.

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Publication place: London