1894 KORÁNYI DE TOLCSVA, Baron Sandor (1866 – 1944)

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 these se…

GMN 4226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5052

1903 VOELCKER, Friedrich (1872 – 1955); JOSEPH, Eugen Jakob (1879 – 1933)

Funktionelle Nierendiagnostik ohne Ureterenkatheter.

Voelcker’s kidney-function test.

GMN 4230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5064

1905 ALBARRAN Y DOMINGUEZ, Joaquin Maria (1860 – 1912)

Exploration des fonctions rénales.

Albarran’s polyuria test for renal inadequacy.

GMN 4232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5071

1906 VOELCKER, Friedrich (1872 – 1955); LICHTENBERG, Alexander von (1880 – 1949)

Pyelographie (Roentgenographie des Nierenbeckens nach Kollargolfüllung).

Introduction of pyelography.

GMN 4231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5068

1909 ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938); ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959)

On the pharmacological action of some phthaleins and their derivatives.

This work led to the universal clinical use of phenolsulphonephthalein in renal function tests and of phenoltetrachlorphthalein in hepatic function tests.

GMN 1896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2636

1910 ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959); GERAGHTY, John Timothy (1876 – 1924)

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

The phenolsulphonephthalein kidney-function test.

GMN 4236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5092

1919 LEATHES, John Beresford (1864 – 1956)

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

Alkaline tide of urine.

GMN 4239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5107

1920 MACLEAN, Hugh (1879 – 1957); DE WESSELOW, Owen Lambert Vaughan (1883 – 1959)

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

Urea concentration test.

GMN 4240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5111

1924 ANDREWES, Sir Christopher Howard (1896 – 1988)

An unexplained diazo-colour-reaction in uraemic sera.

Diazo-color test of renal function.

GMN 4244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5125

1928 –1929 MØLLER, Eggert Hugo Heiberg (1893 – 1978)

Studies of urea excretion.

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

GMN 4246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5127

1940 ALVING, Alf Sven (1902 – 1965); MILLER, Benjamin Frank (1907 – )

A practical method for the measurement of glomerular filtration rate (inulin clearance) with an evaluation of the clinical significance of this determination.

Inulin clearance test.

GMN 4251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5152