Vol. S10 — Supplemento S10 2006

• History of Nephrology, a prophecy in the past
  

  N.G. De Santo¹, B. Rutkowski², C.R.P. George³, Z. Zdrojewski⁴, S.G. Massry⁴, G. Eknoyan⁵

  (1) First Division of Nephrology, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk -
  (3) Concord Hospital and Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney - Australia
  (4) Division of Nephrology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles - US
  (5) Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX - USA

• The kidney from Galen to Vesalius - A first approach
  

  A. Touwaide¹

  (1) Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC - USA

• Monastic medicine from the classic Era to the Renaissance: development of nephrology
  

  L. Iorio¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, 'G. De Bosis' Hospital, Cassino - Italy

• The build-up of clinical science
  

  N.G. De Santo¹, C. Bisaccia², L.S. De Santo³, M. Cirillo¹, G. Richet⁴

  (1) First Division of Nephrology, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (2) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (3) Division of Heart Surgery, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (4) Acadmie de Mdecine, Paris - France

• Medicine in Pomerania and Pomezania during their conquest by the Teutonic Knights
  

  M.M. Zydowo¹

  (1) Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk - Poland

• Kidney disease in medieval Serbian manuscripts from the Chilandar monastery (Mount Athos, Greece)
  

  G.S. Gorgieva¹

  (1) Faculty of Medicine, University of Pristina, Kosovska Mitrovica - Serbia

• Teaching nephrology at Naples Studium, 1650-1750
  

  M. Conforti¹

  (1) History of Medicine Division, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome - Italy

• Nephrology in the Lancisi Medical Dictionary (1672-1720)
  

  V. Gazzaniga¹, S. Marinozzi¹

  (1) Section of History of Medicine, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome 'La Sapienza

• Mariano Semmola (1831-1895): the effect of low protein diet in primary albuminuria
  

  N.G. De Santo¹, C. Bisaccia², R.M. De Santo¹, A.F. Perna¹, M. Manzo¹, E. Di Stazio¹, M. Cirillo¹

  (1) First Division of Nephrology, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (2) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy

• Impotence in the XVIII-XIX century as described by Gian Pietro Fusanacci and Tommaso Eduardo Beatty
  

  V. Savica¹, D. Santoro¹, A. Mallamace¹, G. Bellinghieri¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina, Messina - Italy

• Bilateral nephrectomy in the 19th century. Uremic toxicity: from urea to potassium
  

  G. Richet¹, C. van Ypersele de Strihou²

  (1) Acadmie de Mdecine, Paris - France
  (2) Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique, Bruxelles - Belgium

• A history of diabetes mellitus - A disease of the kidneys that became a kidney disease
  

  G. Eknoyan¹

  (1) Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX - USA

• The discovery of diabetic nephropathy: from small print to centre stage
  

  J.S. Cameron¹

  (1) Renal Medicine Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, King's College, London

• From Fahrenheit to cytokines: fever, inflammation and the kidney
  

  C.R.P. George¹

  (1) Concord Hospital and Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney - Australia

• Renal diseases in John Allens 'Synopsis Universae Medicinae Practicae'
  

  A. Mezzogiorno¹, L. Iorio², A.. Esposito¹, M. Flamourakis¹, V. Esposito¹

  (1) Human Anatomy Unit, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Second University
  (2) Department of Nephrology, 'G. De Bosis' Hospital, Cassino - Italy

• The contribution of Rudolf Virchow to the concept of inflammation: what is still of importance?
  

  A. Heidland¹, A. Klassen¹, B. Rutkowski², U. Bahner³

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Wrzburg - Germany
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk -
  (3) Kuratorium for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Wuerzburg - Germany

• Samuel Johnsons illnesses
  

  L.G. Fine¹

  (1) Royal Free & University College Medical School, University College London, London - UK

• Dr. Nikolay S. Korotkov (1874-1920) - The discoverer of blood pressure measurement tones
  

  A.K. Gurevich¹

  (1) Medical Academy for Postgraduate Studies, St. Petersburg - Russia

• The history of von Hippel-Lindau disease
  

  D. Molino¹, J. Sepe², P. Anastasio¹, N.G. De Santo³

  (1) First Division of Nephrology and PhD Program in Nephrological Sciences, Second University of Naples,
  (2) Life Sciences, University of Maryland University College - USA
  (3) First Division of Nephrology, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy

• History of aldosterone on its 50th birthday
  

  C. Fiore¹, L.A. Calo'², L. Colombo³, C.E. Grimm⁴, D. Armanini¹

  (1) Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua - Italy
  (2) Clinical and Experimental Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Padua, Padua - Italy
  (3) Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua - Italy
  (4) Clinical of Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical College of Wisconsin - USA

• Belding Hibbard Scribner, the individual: a brief biography
  

  C.R. Blagg¹

  (1) University of Washington, Northwest Kidney Centers, Seattle, Washington - USA

• The early history of chemical immunosuppression: 1900-1965
  

  R.J. Glassock¹

  (1) No affiliation

• Overcoming the force and power of immunity: a history of immunosuppression in kidney transplantation
  

  P.S. Patel¹

  (1) Boston University School of Medicine, Boston - USA

• Rights and wrongs: changing fashions in articles on the kidney published in The Lancet in the century between 1822 and 1
  

  A. Diamandopoulos¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, St. Andrews Hospital, Patras - Greece

• The history of nephrology in Poland
  

  S. Czekalski¹, B. Rutkowski²

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Medical University, Gdansk - Poland
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk -

• Development of renal replacement therapy in Poland
  

  B. Rutkowski¹, S. Czekalski², M. Lao³, F. Kokot⁴

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk -
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Medical University, Gdansk - Poland
  (3) Institute of Transplantology, Medical University, Warsaw - Poland
  (4) Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Silesian University School of Medici

• Contribution of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to Nephrology
  

  B. Rutkowski¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Gdansk Medical University, Gdansk -

• The 50-year history of the Nephrology Department in Kosice (Slovak Republic)
  

  M. Mydlik¹, K. Derzsiova¹

  (1) Nephrological Clinic, Faculty Hospital of L. Pasteur, Medical School of P. J. Safarik University, Ko