Med. [f. the name of Dr. R. Bright, whose researches, published in 1827, established the nature of the disease.] ‘A generic term including several forms of acute and chronic disease of the kidney usually associated with albumen in the urine (Syd. Soc. Lex.); granular degeneration of the kidneys.
1831. Graves, in Lond. Med. Gaz., Dec. That obstruction of the glandular tissue to which the name of Bright’s disease has been attached. Ibid. (1843), Syst. Clin. Med., xxxiv. 540. I regard albuminous urine as a sign of Bright’s kidney.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 863.
