The first effective treatment for a kidney disease, 1950. Dropsy is an ancient word (first recorded about 1290 AD) meaning oedema. Genera...
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Showing posts with label 1950s. Show all posts
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...
Obstetric renal failure
Alarming emergency and important public health marker Methodist Hospital, Dallas, 1966 (credit at foot of post) In the early days of dial...
Twins in transplantation
Groundbreaking - and lucky to have one John Merrill shows the Herrick twins an early dialysis machine On December 23rd 1954, 24 year-old Ric...
Diets for chronic uraemia
1949-1993: Addis to Giovannetti It didn’t work for her: a 46 year old female patient who stopped her diet. Note that it was lowering urea ...
The Korean War 1950-3: acute dialysis finds its place
War medicine tests science and dialysis In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. After a rapid advance, their army was repulsed by Ame...
The unsung story of early peritoneal dialysis
The first successful mode of dialysis for acute renal failure and still not replaced The beginnings of haemodialysis have been described man...
Haemodialysis was first used successfully in 1945
Willem (‘Pim’) Kolff’s remarkable achievement Kolff is famously the man who first put the developing theory of therapeutic dialysis into suc...
Dialysis in the UK in 1959
50 years ago dialysis suddenly caught on in the UK In 1958 there were only 3 renal units operating in the UK, at Leeds, Hammersmith, and RAF...
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