Facets

2017 CE

#12099

Evolutionary nephrology.

Abstract: "Progressive kidney disease follows nephron loss, hyperfiltration, and incomplete repair, a process described as “maladaptive.” In the past 20 years, a new discipline has emerged that expands res…

1933 CE

#4201

Excretion urography by means of the intravenous and oral administration of sodium ortho-iodohippurate: with some physiological considerations.

Introduction of Hippuran.

1662 CE

#1229

Exercitatio anatomica de structura et usu renum.

Classic description of the gross anatomy of the kidney. Bellini discovered the renal excretory ducts (“Bellini’s ducts”) and advanced a physical theory of the secretion of the urine. A translation of…

1673 CE

#4161

Exercitationes medicae practicae circa medendi methodum.

This work contains the first clear description of proteinuria, noting precipitation of urine with heat or acetic acid. Albuminuria was first described by Dekkers (Chapter V). A translation of this chapter is in Major,…

1955 CE

#4256.3

Experiences with renal homotransplantation in the human. Report of nine cases.

With Benjamin F. Miller. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1918 CE

#4238.1

Experimental hydronephrosis; repair following ureterocysto-neostomy in white rats with complete ureteral obstruction.

Commencement of Hinman’s classic work on treatment of hydronephrosis.

1902 CE

#4229.1

Experimentelle Nierentransplantation. Vorlaüfige Mittheilung.

Successful autotransplantation of kidneys in dogs.

1797 CE

#1218

Experiments in which, on the third day after impregnation, the ova of rabbits were found in the Fallopian tubes, and on the fourth day after impregnation in the uterus itself, with the first appearances of the foetus.

Cruikshank showed that the impregnated ovum stayed in the Fallopian tube for a period before implantation in the uterus.

1905 CE

#4232

Exploration des fonctions rénales.

Albarran’s polyuria test for renal inadequacy.

1870 CE

#4213

Exstirpation einer Niere am Menschen.

First successful planned nephrectomy for urinary tract fistula. A more detailed, illustrated account of the case appears in No. 4214.

1875 CE

#4174

Exstirpation eines Harnblasenmyoms nach vorausgehendem tiefen und hohen Blasenschnitt. Heilung.

First abdominal resection of a tumor of the bladder. The operation was performed by Billroth.

1903 CE

#4191.2

Extirpation einer Harnblase mit Einpflanzung der Ureteren in die Flexura iliaca.

Total cystectomyand bilateral ureterosigmoidostomy.

1903 CE

#4230

Funktionelle Nierendiagnostik ohne Ureterenkatheter.

Voelcker’s kidney-function test.

1956 CE

#4257.1

Further developments of a coil kidney. Disposable artificial kidney.

Disposable twin coil kidney.

1513 CE

#2269

Galen: De affectorum locorum notitia libri vi.

First separate dated Latin translation of De locis affectis, made by Wilhelm Copp of Basel. In this work devoted to pathology, Galen made many valuable deductions on inflammation and on tumors. He was familiar with ch…

1912 CE

#2838

Glomerular lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.

Baehr drew attention to the renal lesions in subacute bacterial endocarditis.

1961 CE

#10005

Glomerular permeability. I. Ferritin transfer across the normal glomerular capillary wall.

"The authors used ferritin as an electron dense tracer, such that they could visualize both the structure of the capillary wall and the pathways taken by the ferritin moelcules across the wall....This report confirmed…

1870 CE

#4212

Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. I. Abt.

A classic description of glomerulonephritis (“Klebs’s disease”) is on pp. 644-48.

1855 CE–1871 CE

#417

Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.

Considered by many authorities to be the greatest of the 19th-century systems of anatomy. Many structures are named after Henle, including the looped portion of the uriniferous tubules of the kidney, the layer of cell…

2002 CE

#9715

Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).

1929 CE

#3656

Hepato-nephromegalia glykogenika (Glykogenspeicherkrankheit der Leber und Nieren).

“Von Gierke’s disease”, glycogen disease of hepatomegalic type. See also the review by S. van Creveld, Medicine, 1939, 18, 1-128.

1891 CE

#11124

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.

Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.

1933 CE

#4297

History of urology. Prepared under the auspices of the American Urological Association. Editorial Committee: Edgar G. Ballenger, William A. FRontz, Homer G. Hamer, and Bransford Lewis. 2 vols

Every aspect of the subject is covered exhaustively by the various contributors to this collective work; valuable bibliographies are included.

1950 CE

#4256.1

Homotransplantation of the kidney in human; preliminary report.

Report of first human patient to survive a kidney transplant. The operation was on June 17, 1950, and the patient was discharged on August 26. With four co-authors. See No. 4257.

1865 CE

#4211.1

Hydronephrosis in a boy four years old, repeatedly tapped; recovery.

Hillier performed the first therapeutic percutaneous nephrostomy for giant hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a four-year old boy.

1980 CE

#12344

Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.

1920 CE

#4271

Infiltration anesthesia of the internal vesical orifice for the removal of minor obstructions: presentation of a cautery punch.

Caulk’s cautery punch.

1936 CE

#4250

Intercapillary lesions in the glomeruli of the kidney.

“Kimmelstiel–Wilson syndrome”. First description of nodular intercapillary glomerulosclerosis, the only known morphological alteration specific, or almost so, for diabetes mellitus.

1522 CE

#368

Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam.

One year after publishing his Commentary on Mondino, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi issued an abbreviated version or Isagoge, with most of the same woodcuts. This was the book by which Berengario's contributions to anato…

1913 CE

#4237

Klinische Diagnostik der degenerativen Nierenerkrankungen.

Munk introduced the term “lipoid nephrosis”. He found that urine in such cases contained anisotropic lipoid droplets.

1894 CE

#8970

Kystophotographischer Atlas.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#4296.5

L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.

Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#9857

Landmark papers in nephrology. Edited by John Freehally, Christopher McIntyre and J. Stewart Cameron.

1951 CE

#4203.1

Le réservoir iléal de substitution après la cystectomie totale chez l’homme.

Artificial bladder.

1888 CE

#4183

Leçons cliniques sur les affections chirurgicales de la vessie et de la prostate.

Guyon was Professor of genitourinary surgery at Paris, and a great teacher (see also No. 4177).

1881 CE

#4177

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des voies urinaires.

Guyon was the outstanding French urologist of his day, an operator of great skill and a brilliant lithotomist.

1877 CE

#4216.2

Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins.

Charcot defined “scarlatinous nephritis” and “amyloid kidney” as distinct pathological entities. English translation, New York, 1878.

1859 CE

#1234.1

Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l’organisme.

Bernard was the first to describe an effect of the renal nerves on urine flow.

1873 CE

#4215.1

Lectures on Bright’s disease: with special reference to pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.

Johnson showed that fatty infiltrations of the renal tubules are reflected by the presence of fatty casts and droplets in the urine, thus introducing the concept of lipoid nephrosis associated with nephrotic syndrome.

1889 CE

#4184

Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.

Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.

1891 CE

#4185

Les tumeurs de la vessie.

Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.

1903 CE

#7217

Les tumeurs du rein.

Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…

1536 CE

#1536

Liber introductorius anatomiae sive dissectionis corporis humani; in quo quam plurima membra, operationes, & utilitates tam ab antiquis, quam a modernis praetermissa manifestantur.

A practical manual for dissection, showing how to carry out an anatomy from the first incision onwards. Massa based his work on his experience gained from numerous dissections that he had undertaken in the hospital of…

1477 CE

#10725

Liber phsionomiae [and other works].

"Composed between 1209 and 1226, the first of the two primary texts discusses human generation — anatomy, physiology, astrology, sexual behavior, conception and the health of the fetus. The second part, the Phys…

1490 CE

#47

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

1861 CE

#688

Liquid diffusion applied to analysis.

Graham’s method of separating animal and other fluids by dialysis introduced the distinction between colloidal and crystalloid substances.

1720 CE

#4281

Lithotomia Douglassiana; or, an account of a new method of making the high operation, in order to extract the stone out of the bladder.

Douglas accused Cheselden of plagiarizing his work, although the latter had acknowledged his indebtedness to Douglas. It is possible that this was the reason which prompted Cheselden to drop the high operation in favo…

1833 CE

#4290

Lithotripsie. Mémoires sur la lithotripsie par percussion.

Heurteloup designed the best lithotrite of the time. He was one of several claimants to the distinction of having introduced modern lithotrity. See Lancet, 1831-32, 2, 567-70.

1878 CE

#4292

Lithotrity by a single operation.

Introduction of litholapaxy at one sitting.

1707 CE

#4279.1

Litotomia…

A renowned specialist and pupil of Bellini, Alghisi was probably the first to use an indwelling urethral catheter to drain urine away from the wound after lithotomy. The inclined position of the patient with the head …