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 ...
Insipid diabetes
A disease of 1769 becomes a treatment in 2015 The Edinburgh physician William Cullen described the difference between ‘sweet’ diabetes (mell...
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...
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 birth of home dialysis
The first home haemodialysis, 1964 In the early 1960s dialysis was still a very new technology. It was high-tech, life-saving and dramatic. ...
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