The first unequivocally useful drug, 1964 Robust and practical sphygmomanometers (mercury and aneroid) became available in the early 1900s...
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
The invention of diuretics
Dropsy becomes treatable in the 1960s Failure of pharmacological therapies in a woman with heart failure in 1964, right on the verge ...
The first successful transplants, 1960-70
For patients, a last throw of the dice The first human transplants were heroic operations undertaken at a time when dialysis was not a lon...
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...
Hundreds of local stories in the development of dialysis
Illustrated in 1960s Augusta, Georgia An account at the coincidence of racial desegregation and the first hints of feasibility of long te...
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...
1961: threshold of the new nephrology
A symposium in Edinburgh on 25th March 1961 was one of the first in the UK to consider the full new range of clinical nephrology. Twin coil ...
Home haemodialysis - how far can it go?
The home dialysis expansion of the 1960s and 70s Olga Heppel - one of the UK's first home haemodialysis patients at home in 1964. Watc...
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 record holders
A few patients have been on renal replacement therapy for over 45 years The Royal Free programme This photograph of 'The Lucky Thirteen...
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