The first unequivocally useful drug, 1964 Robust and practical sphygmomanometers (mercury and aneroid) became available in the early 1900s...
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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 ...
Dropsy, nephrosis, nephrotic syndrome
The first effective treatment for a kidney disease, 1950. Dropsy is an ancient word (first recorded about 1290 AD) meaning oedema. Genera...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
General
Historyofnephrology in Nephmadness
Not sure we understand this, but we're in it. #NephMadness Click to participate ; watch 1 min explanation video 4 History conten...
Hepatitis B - epidemics to vaccination
Tragedy to biotech, 1965-76 Hepatitis B virion model. medicalgraphics.de The first cases of dialysis-associated hepatitis were report...
Insipid diabetes
A disease of 1769 becomes a treatment in 2015 The Edinburgh physician William Cullen described the difference between ‘sweet’ diabetes (mell...
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...
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...
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