This complication is to a very big extent eliminated by a careful
urinalysis prior to the operation, and careful preliminary treatment in
indicated cases, and in other cases the postponement or if necessary
complete elimination of the operation where it is not a case of life
and death. Where the condition does appear we have found it the hardest
of the post-operative complications to control. Indeed it is the only
one that we have not found very easy to manage.
We do not vary the treatment for a post-operative nephritis from what
we would use in any ordinary case of nephritis. We have observed
treatment of this condition in many cases under medical management, and
while we are satisfied with the osteopathic treatment comparatively
we are not yet satisfied that we have it developed to its greatest
efficiency.