The History of Nephrology has lots to teach us. You can see some of it on our pages here:
- Timeline of the history of dialysis and transplantation (with some additional info)
- History of dialysis and transplantation in Edinburgh
- History of nephrology blog (building collection of articles in blog format)
www.edren.org/history is a shortcut to this page. We can recommend these from elsewhere on the Web:
Early dialysis
- John Hopewell's account of early dialysis and transplantation in the UK on the BTS website
- Stanley Shaldon - fascinating online illustrated lecture from a UK pioneer of home haemodialysis. You can find some fascinating and outstanding clips on YouTube too.
- Haemodialysis in the UK was a subject on the first ever episode of 'Tomorrow's World' in July 1965.
- John Hopewell is assembing a collection of UK renal unit histories at www.renhist.co.uk.
- ISN video legacy project and other resources
- Short history of HD from Fresenius Medical Care
- A great movie from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center on the use of the modified Kolff-Brigham kidney in the Korean war has gone missing from the Interweb - please let us know if you find it.
Transplantation
- History of transplantation from the British Transplantation Society
- Milestones in transplantation from Novartis
- Timeline of transplantation from the Transplant Network
- The first successful transplants in man - Nobel prize lecture, Joseph Murray 1990
Early nephrology
- Richard Bright 1789-1858 - from the Roscoe Robinson Collection at Vanderbilt University: the first accounts of albuminuria and dropsy, published in Vol.1 of Reports of Medical Cases Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy, 1827.
- Robert Christison 1795-1882 - promoted and extended Bright's observations and first described renal anaemia, and was a founder of modern toxicology and major contributor to the first British Pharmacopoeia in 1864. Published On granular degeneration of the kidnies and its connexion with dropsy, inflammations, and other diseases in 1839. Archives
- Pierre Rayer 1793-1867 - Some information -
General resources
- International Association for the History of Nephrology
- National Library of Medicine (US) and ASAIO guide to collections relating to the history of artificial organs
- The HDCN History channel has a good list of resources
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