Entry Nos. 4200–4299

1827 CE–1831 CE

#2285

Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy. 2 vols. in 3.

Beside's Bright's classic description of chronic non-suppurative nephritis, known eponymically as “Bright’s disease”, the Reports contain numerous other outstanding contributions to general pathology…

1556 CE

#3573

Petit traité contenant une des parties principalles de chirurgie, laquelle les chirurgiens hernieres exercent.

Clifford Allbutt considered Franco the best lithotomist of the 16th century. His skill in extracting the stone by the perineal route was of a high order; in 1556 he introduced the operation of suprapubic cystotomy in …

1929 CE

#4200

Darstellung der Niere und Harnwege im Röntgenbild durch intravenöse Einbringung eines neuen Kontraststoffes, des Uroselectans.

Introduction of Uroselectan. In a following paper (pp. 2089-91), A. von Lichtenberg and M. Swick used it in human excretion urography.

1933 CE

#4201

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

Introduction of Hippuran.

1935 CE

#4202

Mandelic acid in the treatment of urinary infections.

Introduction of mandelic acid in the treatment of urinary infections.

1950 CE

#4203

Permanent artificial (silicone) urethra.

First implantation of silicone rubber tube to replace urethra.

1476 CE

#4204

Summa conservationis et curationis. Chirurgia.

Contains (Cap. cxl) his classic account of renal edema: De duritie in renibus, an English translation of which is in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 527. ISTC no. is00032000.

1812 CE

#4205

On the presence of the red matter and serum of blood in the urine of dropsy, which has not originated from scarlet fever.

Wells was the first to notice the presence of blood and albumin in edematous urine. He also established the fact that the edema occurred in the upper parts of the body, and he described the uremic seizures to which su…

1836 CE

#4207

Cases and observations, illustrative of renal disease accompanied with the secretion of albuminous urine.

As a result of greater experience on renal disease, Bright rounded off his work on the subject with the above paper, wherein he recorded his extended observations; by this time he had come to more definite conclusions…

1839 CE–1841 CE

#4208

Traité des maladies des reins. 3 vols, and atlas.

Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified “albuminus nephritis” into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephrit…

1851 CE

#4209

Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankheit.

Frerichs divided the progression of renal disease into three stages: initial hyperemia, fatty infiltration and exudation, and organization leading to fibrosis and atrophy. This is one of the earliest works on kidney d…

1861 CE

#4210

Case of encephaloid disease of the kidney; removal, etc.

Erastus Bradley Wolcott (1804-1880) was first to excise the kidney (for renal tumor). The preoperative diagnosis had been tumor of the liver. Only after the operation did the surgeons realize that they had removed the…

1864 CE

#4211

Wandernde Nieren und deren Einklemmung.

“Dietl’s crisis”. Dietl described the sudden severe attacks of nephralgic or gastric pain, chills, fever, nausea and vomiting, and general collapse, ascribing them to partial turning of the kidney up…

1870 CE

#4212

Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. I. Abt.

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

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.

1871 CE–1876 CE

#4214

Chirurgie der Nieren. Teil 1-2.

Simon was Professor of Surgery at Rostock and Heidelberg. The work was projected as 3 vols., but Simon died before it was completed.

1872 CE

#4215

On the pathology of the morbid state commonly called chronic Bright’s disease with contracted kidney (“arterio-capillary fibrosis”).

First clear description of arteriosclerotic atrophy of the kidney (“Gull–Sutton disease”), and probably the first description of hypertensive nephrosclerosis.

1876 CE

#4216

The state of the arteries in Bright’s disease.

Gowers’s important account of the changes in the retinal vessels in Bright’s disease is reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 605-11.

1879 CE

#4217

Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankung vom pathologisch-anatomischen Standpunkte.

Classic study of the pathological anatomy of Bright’s disease.

1881 CE

#4218

Die operative Behandlung der beweglichen Niere durch Fixation.

Hahn devised the operation of nephropexy (nephrorrhaphy) for the relief of movable kidney.

1882 CE

#4219

Un caso di rene mobile fissato col mezzo dell’operazione cruenta.

Important modification of Hahn’s operation of nephropexy.

1884 CE

#4220

Die Entstehung von Nierentumoren aus Nebennierengewebe.

An important investigation of the origin of hypernephroma (“Grawitz tumor”). See also Arch. klin. Chir., 1884, 30, 824-34.

1888 CE

#4221

Chronic pyelitis, successfully treated by kolpo-uretero-cystotomy.

Bozeman treated vesical and fecal fistulae in women, dealing with the complication of pyelitis by catheterization of the ureter through a vesicovaginal opening.

1890 CE

#4222

Ueber Blasenscheidenfisteloperationen und über Beckenhochlagerung bei Operationen in der Bauchhöhle.

Includes an account of his attempt, 1886, to cure hydronephrosis by a plastic operation – the first recorded surgical intervention for the relief of this condition. Includes description of the “Trendelenbu…

1892 CE

#4223

Ein Fall von Resektion des Harnleiters.

First successful plastic operation for the relief of hydronephrosis.

1893 CE

#4224

Movable kidney; with a report of twelve cases treated by nephrorrhaphy.

In his nephropexy operation Edebohls utilized flaps of the capsule of the kidney. He believed that decapsulation improved the renal blood supply.

1894 CE

#4225

Operation for the relief of valve formation and stricture of the ureter in hydro- or pyo-nephrosis.

Fenger’s operation for stenosis of the uretero-pelvic junction.

1894 CE

#4226

A vizelet fagypontjának diagnostikus érteke. [The diagnostic value of the freezing point of urine.]

Korányi established cryoscopy of the urine as a kidney function test. See also his later papers in Z. klin. Med., 1897, 33, 1-54; 1898, 34, 1-52. Previously H. Dreser had made experiments on this subject; for t…

1899 CE

#4227

Die Mischgeschwülste. I. Die Mischgeschwülste der Niere.

Embryoma of the kidney (“Wilms’s tumor”). For the history of the operation for Wilms’s tumor see B. Thomasson and M.M. Ravitch, Wilms Tumor, Urol. Surg., 1961, 11, 83-100.

1899 CE

#4228

Chronic nephritis affecting a movable kidney as an indication for nephropexy.

First operation on the kidneys for the relief of Bright’s disease.

1901 CE

#4229

The cure of chronic Bright’s disease by operation.

Edebohls introduced the operation of renal decortication for the treatment of chronic nephritis.

1903 CE

#4230

Funktionelle Nierendiagnostik ohne Ureterenkatheter.

Voelcker’s kidney-function test.

1906 CE

#4231

Pyelographie (Roentgenographie des Nierenbeckens nach Kollargolfüllung).

Introduction of pyelography.

1905 CE

#4232

Exploration des fonctions rénales.

Albarran’s polyuria test for renal inadequacy.

1906 CE

#4233

Technique de la néphropexie.

“Albarran’s operation” – nephropexy.

1907 CE

#4234

Ueber die entzündlichen Veränderungen der Glomeruli der menschlichen Nieren und ihre Bedeutung für die Nephritis.

“Focal nephritis”. Löhlein established the importance of the initial inflammatory reaction in the glomerular capillaries in glomerulonephritis. Forms part 4 of Arb. path. Inst. Leipzig.

1908 CE

#4235

Transplantation in mass of the kidneys.

Carrel revolutionized vascular surgery. He transplanted the kidney from one animal to another, an operation later carried out successfully in man. For his earlier work on vascular anastomosis and transplantation of vi…

1910 CE

#4236

An experimental and clinical study of the functional activity of the kidneys by means of phenolsulphonephthalein.

The phenolsulphonephthalein kidney-function test.

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.

1914 CE

#4238

Die Brightsche Nierenkrankheit.

First full description of pure nephrosis, relating clinical features to morbid anatomy.

1919 CE

#4239

Renal efficiency tests in nephritis, and the reaction of the urine.

Alkaline tide of urine.

1920 CE

#4240

On the testing of renal efficiency, with observations on the “urea coefficient”.

Urea concentration test.

1921 CE

#4241

Un nuevo procedimiento para explorar al riñón.

Perirenal insufflation of oxygen, for the roentgenological study of the kidney.

1923 CE

#4242

Ueber die Beseitigung giftiger Stoffe aus dem Blute durch Dialyse.

First description of the experimental use of peritoneal dialysis in uremia.

1923 CE

#4243

Ueber Nierenveränderungen nach Verschüttung.

Crush syndrome.

1924 CE

#4244

An unexplained diazo-colour-reaction in uraemic sera.

Diazo-color test of renal function.

1928 CE–1929 CE

#4246

Studies of urea excretion.

Blood urea clearance test. With J. F. Mcintosh and D. D. Van Slyke.

1931 CE

#4248

Die nicht diabetischen Glykosurien und Hyperglykämien des älteren Kindes.

“Fanconi’s syndrome”, dysfunction of the renal tubules with hypophosphatemia, renal glycosuria, and metabolic disturbances.

1933 CE

#4249

Über das Wesen der spezifischen Veränderungen der Niere und der Leber durch das Nephrotoxin bzw. das Hepatotoxin.

Experimental production of acute glomerulonephritis. For Masugi’s later work, see the same journal, 1933-34, 92, 429, and Klin. Wschr., 1935, 14, 373.

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.