Word: glomerular
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...excreted in the urine. Ben A. gradually lost the use of his kidneys, probably because of a long-ago streptococcal infection similar to the type that commonly causes rheumatic heart disease. In his case the infection touched off a form of Bright's disease known as glomerular nephritis (inflammation in and around the filtering capillaries). Around Christmas 1959, the disease threatened to kill him. University of Washington Internist Belding H. Scribner could have kept Ben A. alive for a few weeks by hooking him up to the artificial kidney at short intervals. But this would have needed frequent surgery...