Facets

1864 CE

#4498

Contributions à l’étude des altérations anatomiques de la goutte.

Charcot and Cornil gave an important description of the renal lesions in gout.

1922 CE

#3871

Crises solaires et hypertension paroxystique en rapport avec une tumeur surrénale.

First full description of chromaffin cell tumors of the adrenal medulla. With J. Tinel and E. Doumer.

1941 CE

#4252

Crush injuries with impairment of renal function.

Bywaters and Beali encountered cases of the “crush syndrome” among victims of the London air-raids of 1940-41.

1851 CE

#4169

Cystitis; lateral operation on the bladder, death; tuberculous kidney.

First cystotomy for inflammation and rupture of the bladder.

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.

1951 CE

#1246.01

Das Multiplikationsprinzip als Grundlage der Harnkonzentrierung in der Niere.

A theoretical treatment of the countercurrent hypothesis accompanied by data from a working model.

1638 CE

#11647

De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum.

The first medical book to contain an endorsement of Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood (originally published ten years earlier in 1628). Beverwijck began his work with a treatise on urinary and renal calc…

1764 CE

#1382

De ischiade nervosa commentarius.

Cotugno published a classic description of sciatica, which is useful even today. He recognized two types – arthritic and nervous; the latter has been called “Cotugno’s disease”, and his book is…

1865 CE

#4172

De l’endoscope et de ses applications au diagnostic et au traitement des affections de l’urèthre et de la vessie.

Desormeaux was a pioneer of endoscopy. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1900 CE

#11136

De la prostatectomie périnéale totale. Thèse de doctorat en médecine.

Proust performed the first radical perineal prostatectomy. He was the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1535 CE

#4278

De lapide renum curiosum opusculum nuperrime in lucem aeditum. Eiusdem De lapide vesicae per incisionem extrahendo sequitur aureus libellus.

Marianus Sanctus Barolitanus popularized the operation of lithotomy introduced by the father of Giovanni Vigo of Rapallo. This method passed on to Giovanni di Romani and from him to Marianus. It became known as the &l…

1586 CE

#3417

De medica historia mirabili.

An early history of diseases, with extensive sections on ophthalmology (ff. 66-77) and urology (ff. 260-271). Lib. IV, Cap. iii, page 196 contains the first recorded case of gastric ulcer. Lib. VI. cap. iii contains t…

1478 CE

#20

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus&rsq…

1672 CE

#1209

De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus.

De Graaf demonstrated ovulation anatomically, pathologically and experimentally. In the above work he included the first account of the “Graafian follicle”. Translation of Chapter XII, dealing with the ova…

1707 CE

#1216

De sterilitate mulierum.

The Nabothian cysts and glands of the cervix uteri first described (sect. xv).

1483 CE

#8341

De urinis by Gilles de Corbeil, with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgineo. Edited by Venantius Mutius.

Gilles de Corbeil's medical poem De urinis was based on writings by Theophilus Protospatharius by way of the Articella. Poems such as this were intended as mnemonic aids for students, and they tended to be widely used…

1683 CE

#4162

De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis, et pectoris.

Bellini began to develop his hydraulic iatromechanics in this work, in which he considered the blood as a physical fluid with simple mechanical and mathematicizable properties. He realized the value of the urine as an…

1554 CE

#23

De vesicae renumque morbis. De purgantibus medicamentis. De partibus corporis humani...

First printed edition in Greek, edited by Jacques Goupyl. Rufus was a Greek physician who lived during the rule of Trajan. He wrote wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. His De partibus c…

1668 CE

#1210

De virorum organis generationi inservientibus, de clysteribus et de usu siphonis in anatomia.

Exact and detailed account of the male reproductive system. This work and No. 1209 were translated into English and published as Suppl. 17 to J. Reprod. Fertil, 1972. Facsimile of originals, Nieuwkoop, De Graaf, 1965.

1666 CE

#1230

De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica.

Includes (pp. 71-100) his essay, De renibus, in which he described the uriniferous tubules and the “Malpighian bodies”. The great detail and clarity of Malpighi’s description was unsurpassed until Bo…

1719 CE

#1215

Description de l’urèthre de l’homme.

“Littre’s glands” described.

1947 CE

#11511

Development of an artificial kidney: Experimental and clinical experiences.

".... a significant contribution to renal therapies was made by Canadian surgeon Gordon Murray with the assistance of two doctors, an undergraduate chemistry student, and research staff. Murray's work was conducted si…

1874 CE

#4261

Di un nuovo cauterizzatore ed incisore termo-galvanico contro le iscurie da ipertrofia prostatica.

Bottini’s galvano-cautery for relief of prostatic obstruction.

2012 CE

#9850

Dialysis: History, development and promise. Edited by Todd S. Ing, Mohamed Rahman, and Carl M. Kjellstrand.

1882 CE

#4178

Die Albuminurie im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

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…

1879 CE

#4217

Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankung vom pathologisch-anatomischen Standpunkte.

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

1914 CE

#4238

Die Brightsche Nierenkrankheit.

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

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.

1972 CE

#4297.3

Die Geschichte der Nierenkrankheiten.

1905 CE

#4192

Die Gestalt der menschlichen Harnblase im Röntgenbilde.

First cystograms.

1860 CE

#4291

Die Harnconcretionen.

Heller introduced several urine tests and wrote (above) an important work on urinary calculi.

1946 CE

#11510

Die kunstmatige Nier.

Kolff's first book on the artificial kidney. This was his doctoral dissertation. There were two versions published. The first was designated Proefschrift and credited Kolff as Willem Johan Kolff on the title page. It …

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.

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.

1881 CE

#4218

Die operative Behandlung der beweglichen Niere durch Fixation.

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

1926 CE

#1227

Die Unfruchtbarkeit als Folge unnatürlicher Lebensweise.

Investigation of the effect of starvation and overfeeding on the gonads and on sexual capacity.

1914 CE

#11906

Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women. With 628 illustrations, for the most part by Max Brödel

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1630 CE

#1721

Disputatio medica de notis virginitatis.

Details the methods of previous and contemporary writers concerning the determination of virginity. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1564 CE

#3668.1

Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.

Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in a…

1876 CE

#11161

Du cancer chez les enfants.

Duzan's thesis was the first treatise exclusively on cancer in childhood. He was able to collect 182 cases. All 182 cases were of pediatric sarcoma: 70 of the eye, 45 of the kidney, 11 of the testicle, 8 of the prosta…

1852 CE

#4169.1

Ectropia vesicae (absence of the anterior walls of the bladder and pubic abdominal parietes); operation for directing the orifices of the ureters into the rectum; temporary success; subsequent death; autopsy.

First uretero-intestinal anastomosis.

1886 CE

#3865

Ein Fall von doppelseitigem, völlig latent verlaufenen Nebennieren-tumor und gleichzeitiger Nephritis mit Veränderungen am Circulationsapparat und Retinitis.

Pheochromocytoma first described. Republished in book form.

1854 CE

#4169.2

Ein Fall von intermittirender Albumenurie und Chromaturie.

Paroxysmalcold hemoglobinuria described. English translation in No. 2241.

1892 CE

#4223

Ein Fall von Resektion des Harnleiters.

First successful plastic operation for the relief of hydronephrosis.

1877 CE

#4216.1

Eine eigenthümliche Nierenexstirpation.

First nephrectomy for malignant disease.

1879 CE

#4175

Eine neue Beobachtungs- und Untersuchungsmethode für Harnröhre, Harnblase und Rectum.

Nitze devised an electrically lighted cystoscope in 1877, which made possible great improvements in the surgery of the bladder.

1897 CE

#4190

Eine neue Modifikation des Harnleiterkatheters.

With Nitze’s operative cystoscope it became possible to excise bladder tumors in situ.

1927 CE

#1242

Estimation of afferent arteriole and glomerular capillary pressures in the frog kidney.

2019 CE

#12098

Evolution, kidney development, and chronic kidney disease.

Abstract: "There is a global epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) characterized by a progressive loss of nephrons, ascribed in large part to a rising incidence of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabe…