Introduction
History of Nephrology 10
Natale Gaspare De Santo1, Biagio Ricciardi2, Boleslaw Rutkowski3, Vincenzo Savica4, Athanasios A. Diamandopoulos5
Giants in nephrology
Stephen Hales: the contributions of an Enlightenment physiologist to the study of the kidney in health and disease
Garabed Eknoyan
Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and His Forgotten Contributions to Electrolyte and Acid-Base Physiology in The Organism as a Whole
Francesco Sgambato1, Ester Sgambato2, Natale Gaspare De Santo3
For the history of dialysis
Origins of renal diseases
The management of kidney stones as suggested by Goeury-Duvivier
Guido Bellinghieri, Ersilia Satta, Vincenzo Savica, Guido Gembillo, Antonino Salvo, Michele Buemi, Domenico Santoro
Antonino D’Antona (1842-1913) was the first in describing the crush syndrome with renal failure following the Messina earthquake of December 28, 1908
Carmela Bisaccia1, Natale Gaspare De Santo2, Luca S. De Santo3
The Renal History of Fabry Disease
Martina Gaggl, Sarah El-Hadi, Christof Aigner, Gere Sunder-Plassmann
The story of spironolactones from 1957 to now: from sodium balance to inflammation
Chiara Sabbadin1, Lorenzo A. Calò2, Decio Armanini1
Development of nephrology
Associate Professor Eduard Neubauer: the first nephrologist in Slovak Republic
Miroslav Mydlík, Katarína Derzsiová
Great figures of Polish Nephrology – Participants of the Warsaw Uprising 1944
M. Muszytowski1,4, J. Ostrowski2,4, B. Rutkowski3,4
The Joint Society of Nephrology in Germany, Switzerland and Austria – Five Decades of Successful Activities
August Heidland1, Eberhard Ritz2, Florian Lang3
Toxins and their measurements
On the discovery of UREA. Identification, synthesis and observations that let to establishing the first uraemic retention solute
Flore Duranton1, Joachim Jankowski2, Andrzej Wiecek3, Àngel Argilés1
Between the utility and hazards of phosphorus through the centuries
Vincenzo Savica, Giovanni Duro, Guido Bellinghieri
The concept of the urine test and specific reaction of the urine in various diseases according to Enrico Cauchi – member of the medical council of Malta (1933)
Carlo Alberto Ricciardi1, Elisabetta Ricciardi2, Luca Visconti1, Antonio Lacquaniti1, Vincenzo Savica3, Domenico Santoro1, Michele Buemi1, Biagio Ricciardi4
Healing with plants and thermal springs
Diuretic plants in the Bible: ethnobotanical aspects
Giovanni Aliotta1, Natale Gaspare De Santo2, Luigi Iorio3
Herbal treatment of the urinary system diseases based on 16th and 17th century herbals in Poland
Janusz Ostrowski1,3, Boleslaw Rutkowski2,3
Treatment of kidney diseases in the thermal springs of Pithecusa during the XVIII Century
Elisabetta Ricciardi1, Carlo Alberto Ricciardi2, Biagio Ricciardi 3
Books, teaching and learning
Disease of the kidney and of the urinary tract in De Medicina Methodica (Padua, 1611) of Prospero Alpini (1563-1616)
Natale Gaspare De Santo1, Carmela Bisaccia2, Biagio Ricciardi3, Pietro Anastasio4, Giovanni Aliotta5, Giuseppe Ongaro6
Arnaldo Da Villanova medieval physician (1235-1311). A first approach
Biagio Ricciardi1, Elisabetta Ricciardi2, Carlo Alberto Ricciardi3