1827 –1831 BRIGHT, Richard (1789 – 1858)

Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy. 2 vols. in 3.

Beside's Bright's classic description of chronic non-suppurative nephritis, known eponymically as “Bright’s disease”, the Reports contain numerous other outstanding contributions to general pathology, neuropathology, …

GMN 2285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2906

1839 –1841 RAYER, Pierre François Olive (1793 – 1867)

Traité des maladies des reins. 3 vols, and atlas.

Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified “albuminus nephritis” into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephritis associate…

GMN 4208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6240

1874 MAHOMED, Frederick Horatio Akbar (1849 – 1884)

The etiology of Bright’s disease and the prealbuminuric stage.

Mahomed proved that cases of “arteriocapillary fibrosis” were hypertensive, and showed that they may occur without renal involvement.

GMN 2906.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4863

1876 GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

The state of the arteries in Bright’s disease.

Gowers’s important account of the changes in the retinal vessels in Bright’s disease is reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 605-11.

GMN 4216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6283

1886 FRÄNKEL, Felix

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.

GMN 3865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4915

1899 EDEBOHLS, George Michael (1853 – 1908)

Chronic nephritis affecting a movable kidney as an indication for nephropexy.

First operation on the kidneys for the relief of Bright’s disease.

GMN 4228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5059

1901 EDEBOHLS, George Michael (1853 – 1908)

The cure of chronic Bright’s disease by operation.

Edebohls introduced the operation of renal decortication for the treatment of chronic nephritis.

GMN 4229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5060

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

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

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

1942 ELLIS, Sir Arthur William Mickle (1883 – 1966)

Natural history of Bright’s disease. Clinical, histological and experimental observations.

Ellis’s classification of nephritis.

GMN 4254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5164