Bright's Disease

(Med.) A disease of the kidneys, so called after the Eng. Dr. Bright, who first investigated it in 1827, and characterized by the presence of albumen in the urine in more or le abundance, and general| dropsy. This affection, when acute, is not devoid of a certain amount of danger, but, in a large proportion of cases, it ends in complete recovery; when chronic, it involves irremediable structural lesions, and sooner or later ends fatally. [s. 116]