1922 LABBÉ, Ernest Marcel (1870 – 1939); ET AL

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.

GMN 3871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4924

1934 GOLDBLATT, Harry (1891 – 1977); ET AL

Studies on experimental hypertension. 1. The production of persistent elevation of systolic blood pressure by means of renal ischemia.

Goldblatt discovered the role of the kidneys in the regulation of blood pressure. This was the first of Goldblatt’s papers on experimental hypertension, which established an aetiologic role for renal ischemia in the p…

GMN 2719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4445

1937 HOUSSAY, Bernardo Alberto (1887 – 1971); FASCIOLO, Juan Carlos (1911 – )

Secreción hipertensora del rinón isquemiado.

Houssay and Fasciolo transplanted an ischemic kidney into an animal from which both kidneys had been removed. Hypertension resulted after establishment of circulation, supporting the view that hypertension is due to a…

GMN 2721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4450

1939 WILSON, Clifford (1906 – 1997); BYROM, Frank Burnet (1902 – 1976)

Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.

Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.

GMN 2724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4456

1940 BRAUN-MENÉNDEZ, Eduardo (1903 – 1959)

The substance causing renal hypertension.

Angiotensin. With J. C. Fasciolo, L. F. Leloir, and J. M. Muñoz. Independently isolated by Page and Helmer (see No. 2724.2) and later named angiotensin.

GMN 2724.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4458

1940 PAGE, Irvine Heinly (1901 – 1991); HELMER, Oscar Marvin (1900 – 1972)

A crystalline pressor substance (angiotonin) resulting from the reaction between renin and renin-activator.

Isolation of angiotonin (angiotensin).

GMN 2724.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4459

1941 WILSON, Clifford (1906 – 1997); BYROM, Frank Burnet (1902 – 1976)

The vicious circle in chronic Bright’s disease. Experimental evidence from the hypertensive rat.

GMN 4253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5159

1944 KEMPNER, Walter (1903 – 1997)

Treatment of kidney disease and hypertensive vascular disease with rice diet.

Kempner rice diet for the treatment of hypertension.

GMN 2725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4461

1980 GORDON, David B.

Hypertension, the renal basis. Benchmark papers in human physiology. Edited by David B. Gordon.

GMN 12344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14568