On Nephropexy

side. Earlier still I had practised the method of Edebohls, in which the renal capsule is deflected from both the anterior andposterior surfaces of the kidney half-way to the hilum, and the deflected portion of the capsule and the undeflected part nearby are transfixed with fixation or suspension sutures, the endsof which are carried through the muscles on each side of the wound. My reason for changing from Edebohl's method to Hutchinson's was the feeling that it was a mistake to decapsulate the kidney, because decapsulation seemed unnecessary, and perhaps caused some atrophy of the renal cortex. It appears