Renal diseases in John Allen's 'Synopsis Universae Medicinae Practicae...'

John Allen, a British physician of the eighteenth century deserves being remembered for a series of inventions, but most importantly - from a “medical” point of view - for his highly praised manuscript, the “Synopsìs Universae Medicinae Practicae, sive Doctissimorum Virorum de Morbis Eorumque Causis ac Remediis Judicia”, , siueD which long served as a text book for medical students of the time and also as a reference book for practisioners throughout European countries, for several decades after its original first publication. It contains the opinion (“Sntentiae") of the most celebrated authors of all ages, from Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna up to Allen's contemporaries, concerning a wide number of diseases, their causes, signs, symptoms, and therapeutical remedies where ayailable. The present paper deals mostly with parts of the Synopsis concerning renal and related clinical signs