1563 –1564 EUSTACHI, Bartolomeo [EUSTACHIUS] (1510 – 1574)
Opuscula anatomica.
Eustachius is credited with several anatomical discoveries, among them the tensor tympani muscle and the Eustachian tube, published in his chapter entitled De auditus organis. In the last respect, however, he was anti…
GMN 1093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/159
1662 BELLINI, Lorenzo (1643 – 1704)
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 an extract from t…
GMN 1229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1948
1666 MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694)
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 Bowman (No. 1231). T…
GMN 1230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/153
1842 BOWMAN, Sir William (1816 – 1892)
On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney with observations on the circulation through that gland.
“Bowman’s capsule”. Bowman provided convincing evidence that the glomerular corpuscle is continuous with the renal tubule and gave the first adequate description of the vascular supply of the nephron. He described the…
GMN 1231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1955
1855 –1871 HENLE, Friedrich Gustav Jakob (1809 – 1885)
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…
GMN 417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/953
1857 ISAACS, Charles Edward (1811 – 1860)
Researches into the structure and physiology of the kidney.
GMN 1233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1963
1939 OLIVER, Jean Redman (1889 – 1976)
Architecture of the kidney in chronic Bright’s disease.
A description of the morphological changes in the nephrons of diseased kidneys. Hypertrophic, atrophic and aglomerular units are described.
GMN 4250.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5148
1951 OLIVER, Jean Redman (1889 – 1976); MACDOWELL, M; TRACY, A
The pathogenesis of acute renal failure associated with traumatic and toxic injury. Renal ischemia, nephrotoxic damage and the ischemuric episode.
Oliver’s work on the structural lesions associated with acute renal failure in which he differentiated between the two types of damage: nephrotoxic, due to toxic substances, and tubulorhexic, due to ischemia, establis…
GMN 4256.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5183
