The first effective treatment for a kidney disease, 1950. Dropsy is an ancient word (first recorded about 1290 AD) meaning oedema. Genera...
Showing posts with label 1800s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1800s. Show all posts
The glomerulus is a filter
Physiologists resolve an anatomical impasse, 1924 Illustrations of Malpighian bodies, from Bowman 1842, Philosophical Transactions 132: 57-...
Acute nephritis in 1875
50 years after Bright Richard Bright’s 1827 report created the discipline of nephrology and triggered an exciting period of clinical resear...
Richard Bright and the discovery of kidney disease
Nephrology is born, 1827 Fig 1 from Bright 1827. (Wellcome Images) Richard Bright (1789-1858), is widely regarded as the founder of the spe...
Lithotomists: the first nephro-urological specialists
A sound has been passed from the penis into the bladder. With the genitalia held out of the way, and the patient strapped firmly to the tabl...
Marathon nephritis and postural proteinuria
When urinary abnormalities don’t indicate renal disease From Tom Brown at Oxford (1861) illust Sydney P Hall (1903 edition) Richard Bright’...
Lead nephropathy
The oldest interstitial renal disease? Lead pipe in Roman Bath. (Wikimedia Commons, see foot) Severe abdominal colic and gout caused by lea...
Monkey glands and the science of renal hypertension
Quack medicine and technology contributed to the discovery of Renin in 1898 A 1928 advert exploiting the Monkey Gland craze. Source In 188...
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