The shock of late, rapid dialysis - Glasgow, 1962 The early rotating drum dialysers had a large surface area, and because of the difficult...
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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...
New ways of Treating Uraemia, 1947
Kolff reflects on four available techniques This fascinating 1947 book of just over 100 pages gives Willem 'Pim' Kolff's own, fu...
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...
Aluminium poisoning
Draws attention to the importance of water quality in the 1970s Your dialysis team on the verge of the 1970s (Kings College Hospital 1969) J...
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...
Who shall live? Patient selection for dialysis
Dustman before Duke? Title from the 1965 NBC documentary about dialysis in Seattle The first patient with end stage renal failure deliberate...
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