The first unequivocally useful drug, 1964 Robust and practical sphygmomanometers (mercury and aneroid) became available in the early 1900s...
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Dialysis disequilibrium
The shock of late, rapid dialysis - Glasgow, 1962 The early rotating drum dialysers had a large surface area, and because of the difficult...
Renal biopsy becomes mainstream, 1954
Detail at last Ambrose Tardieu for Pierre Rayer (1840) (Wellcome Images V0009820ER) For most of the first 100 years of modern nephrology, ap...
Nephrotic syndrome starts at the glomerulus
The salamander kidney gives the final proof in 1938 A spotted salamander (Wikimedia Commons, see below) It was only in the 1930s that mainst...
Bright's disease 100y after Bright
The last decade of purely clinical observation Acute glomerulonephritis with crescent formation - Volhard and Fahr 1914 (one of the last ren...
The glomerulus is a filter
Physiologists resolve an anatomical impasse, 1924 Illustrations of Malpighian bodies, from Bowman 1842, Philosophical Transactions 132: 57-...
The doctor's bag circa 1910
This doctor’s bag is in the London Science Museum. Though dated 1890-1930 much of its contents look very early 20th century. What it doesn’t...
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...
The invention of the dipstick
Test papers to dipsticks in 72 years The SSA test came first. From Cornell Vet School, with permission* For urinary protein detection the b...
Proteinuria: a bad thing since 400 B.C.
Indicates risk of renal failure and death Isaac Sarrabat 1600; Physician examining a urine flask. (US National Library of Medicine) Hip...
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