1861 GRAHAM, Thomas (1805 – 1869)
Liquid diffusion applied to analysis.
Graham’s method of separating animal and other fluids by dialysis introduced the distinction between colloidal and crystalloid substances.
GMN 688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/839
1914 ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938); TURNER, Benjamin Bernard (1871 – 1945); ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959)
On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis.
Hemodialysis. See also No. 1976. Preliminary communication in Trans Ass. Amer. Phycns., 1913, 28, 51-4. "Together with L.G. Rowntree and B.B. Turner, Abel devised what they called a "vividiffusion" apparatus, consisti…
GMN 741.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1138
1923 GANTER, Georg
Ueber die Beseitigung giftiger Stoffe aus dem Blute durch Dialyse.
First description of the experimental use of peritoneal dialysis in uremia.
GMN 4242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5118
1944 KOLFF, Willem Johann (1911 – 2009); ET AL
The artificial kidney: Dialyser with great area.
The Kolff artificial kidney. With H. T. J. Berk and others. Kolff first published his discovery in a neutral country (Sweden) since in 1944 Holland was occupied by the Germans. See also No. 1976.
GMN 4255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5168
1946 KOLFF, Willem Johann (1911 – 2009)
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 …
GMN 11510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13709
1947 MURRAY, Donald Walter Gordon (Gordon Murray) (1894 – 1976); ET AL
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…
GMN 11511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13710
1956 KOLFF, Willem Johann (1911 – 2009); WATSCHINGER, B
Further developments of a coil kidney. Disposable artificial kidney.
Disposable twin coil kidney.
GMN 4257.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5201
1960 QUINTON, Wayne Everett (1921 – 2015); SCRIBNER, Belding Hibbard (1921 – 2003); DILLARD, David
Cannulation of blood vessels for prolonged hemodialysis.
Scribner, Quinton, and Dillard made repeated dialysis possible by their development of indwelling Teflon–Silastic arteriovenous shunts. These became known as Scribner Shunts.
GMN 4257.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5205
