From the Cancer Hospital at Brompton there were two kidneys which had been removed from a man and a woman respectively, both of whom made a good recovery.

From the King's College Hospital there was a kidney with its pelvis enlarged and occupied by a large calculus, and containing little secreting substance, which was removed from a man of forty-nine, who recovered.
These are only a few of the examples of this most interesting collection.

Large calculi of the kidney are mentioned in Chapter XV.
Rupture of the ureter is a very rare injury.

Poland has collected the histories of four cases, one of which ended in recovery after the evacuation by puncture, at intervals, of about two gallons of fluid resembling urine.

The other cases terminated in death during the first, fourth, and tenth weeks respectively.