Vol. S22 — Supplemento S22 2013

• Timeline for a humanistic nephrology
  

  Natale G. De Santo¹, Biagio Di Iorio², Athanasios A. Diamandopoulos³, Guido Bellinghieri⁴, Boleslaw Rutkowski⁵

  (1) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (2) Division of Nephrology, Solofra Hospital, Solofra - Italy
  (3) Panhellenic Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Patras - Greece
  (4) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina - Italy
  (5) Department of Nephrology, Transplantation and Internal Medicine, Medical University, Gdansk - Poland

• A 2000-year history of nephrology: 10 enduring scientific landmarks
  

  Leon G. Fine¹

  (1) Department of Biomedical Sciences Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and University of California, Los Angeles, California - USA

• The quest for certitude in medicine and nephrology
  

  Garabed Eknoyan¹

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

• Semblances of the kidneys according to ancient Greek writers
  

  Athanasios A. Diamandopoulos¹

  (1) Panhellenic Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Patras - Greece

• Concepts of nephrology in the work of Nemesius of Emesa (4th century AD)
  

  George Panteleakos¹, Costas Tsiamis², Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou²

  (1) Department of History of Medicine, Medical School, Athens University, Athens - Greece
  (2) Department of History of Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Athens - Greece

• Twenty-six renal aphorisms of Santorio Santorio (1561-1636)
  

  Natale G. De Santo¹, Massimo Cirillo², Carmela Carmela³, Antonio Mezzogiorno⁴, Rado Pišot⁵, Giuseppe Ongaro⁶

  (1) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (2) Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno - Italy
  (3) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (4) Department of Anatomy, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (5) Deparment of Kinesiology, University of Koper, Koper - Slovenia
  (6) Center for the History of the University of Padua, University of Padua, Padua - Italy

• Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768-1838) and his flirtation with nephrology
  

  Boleslaw Rutkowski¹, Janusz Ostrowski²

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Transplantation and Internal Medicine, Medical University, Gdansk - Poland
  (2) Third Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Provincial Hospital, Wloclawek - Poland

• Science on the kidney in early 19th-century Europe, based on the work of Jedrzej Sniadecki an
  

  Miroslaw J. Smogorzewski¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California - USA

• Józef Dietl (1804-1878), outstanding internist and reformer of the medical sciences, and his contribution to nephrology
  

  Janusz Ostrowski¹, Boleslaw Rutkowski²

  (1) Third Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Provincial Hospital, Wloclawek - Poland
  (2) Historical Section, Polish Society of Nephrology, Gdansk - Poland

• Samuel Goldflam (1852-1932), world-famous neurologist, and his contribution to the development of nephrology
  

  Janusz Ostrowski¹, Boleslaw Rutkowski²

  (1) Third Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Provincial Hospital, Wloclawek - Poland
  (2) Historical Section, Polish Society of Nephrology, Gdansk - Poland

• Eugeny Tareyev (1895-1986), a founding pioneer of nephrology in Russia and Europe
  

  Tatiana S. Sorokina¹

  (1) Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), Moscow - Russia

• First introduction of uroscopy bottle (matula) into the imagery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Orthodox post-Byzantine G
  

  Athanasios A. Diamandopoulos¹

  (1) Panhellenic Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Patras - Greece

• Prognosis of life and death and disease duration from urine examination according to Prospero Alpini (1563-1616)
  

  Natale G. De Santo¹, Biagio DiIorio², Giovanni Aliotta³, Giulia Lacedelli Colussi⁴, Carmela Bisaccia⁵, Lucia Di Micco⁶, Massimo Cirillo⁷, Giuseppe Ongaro⁸

  (1) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (2) Division of Nephrology, Solofra Hospital (Avellino), Solofra - Italy
  (3) University Center for Research in Bioethics, Naples - Italy
  (4) G.B. Della Porta Institute Naples, Naples - Italy
  (5) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (6) Division of Nephrology, Solofra Hospital, Solofra - Italy
  (7) Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno - Italy
  (8) Center for the History of the University of Padua, University of Padua, Padua - Italy

• Oliver and Feigl: 2 forgotten fathers of “stick” testing of urine for albumin
  

  Stewart Cameron¹, Guy Hume Neild²

  (1) Guy’s Campus, King’s College, London - UK
  (2) UCL Centre for Nephrology, University College, London - UK

• Strauss and Welt’s Diseases of the Kidney: a tale of 2 cities, 1963
  

  John T. Harrington¹

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

• “The Kidneys” by Jan Brod: the impact of the textbook on nephrology
  

  Miroslav Mydlík¹, Katarína Derzsiová¹, Katarína Frank²

  (1) Fourth Internal Clinic, University Hospital of L. Pasteur, Košice - Slovak Republic
  (2) Biological and Physical Sciences Department, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio - USA

• Antoine Ferrein (1693-1769) and his “tuyaux blancs”
  

  Gabriel Richet¹, Carmela Bisaccia², Natale G. De Santo³, Maria Pasquarella⁴, Antonio Mezzogiorno⁵

  (1) Académie de Médecine, Paris - France
  (2) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (3) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (4) Department of Anatomy, Second University of Naples - Italy
  (5) Department of Anatomy, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy

• Exupère-Joseph Bertin (1712-1781) and his description of the “petits siphons recourbez” (Henle’s loops, a century earlie
  

  Antonio Mezzogiorno¹, Natale G. De Santo², Carmela Bisaccia³, Biagio Di Iorio⁴, Massimo Cirillo⁵, Vincenzo Savica⁶, Biagio Ricciardi⁷, Dardo Menditti⁸, Gabriel Richet⁹

  (1) Department of Anatomy, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (2) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (3) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (4) Division of Nephrology, Solofra Hospital, Solofra - Italy
  (5) Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno - Italy
  (6) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina - Italy
  (7) Division of Nephrology, Milazzo General Hospital, Milazzo - Italy
  (8) Department of Odontostomatological Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (9) Académie de Médecine, Paris - France

• Professor Albert Válek (1925-1995) and his contribution to Czech and Slovak nephrology
  

  Katarína Derzsiová¹, Miroslav Mydlík¹

  (1) Fourth Internal Clinic, University Hospital of L. Pasteur, Košice - Slovak Republic

• The legacy of Karl Julius Ullrich (1925-2010)
  

  August Heidland¹

  (1) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Würzburg and KFH Kidney Center, Würzburg - Germany

• Perceptions of gout (podagra) during the Byzantine era, with a special focus on a poem by Michael Psellus
  

  Costas Fourtunas¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Patras University Hospital, Patras - Greece

• Morbus dominorum: gout as the disease of lords
  

  Vincenzo Savica¹, Domenico Santoro¹, Biagio Ricciardi², Carlo Alberto Ricciardi¹, Lorenzo A. Calo³, Guido Bellinghieri¹

  (1) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina - Italy
  (2) Division of Nephrology, Milazzo General Hospital, Milazzo - Italy
  (3) Department of Medicine, Clinica Medica 4, University of Padova, Padova - Italy

• De Medicina Aegyptiorum by Prospero Alpini (Venice, Franciscus de Franciscis, 1591)
  

  Natale G. De Santo¹, Gianni Aliotta², Carmela Bisaccia³, Biagio Di Iorio⁴, Massimo Cirillo⁵, Biagio Ricciardi⁶, Vincenzo Savica⁷, Giuseppe Ongaro⁸

  (1) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (2) Bioethics Center of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (3) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (4) Division of Nephrology, Solofra Hospital, Solofra - Italy
  (5) Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno - Italy
  (6) Division of Nephrology, Milazzo General Hospital, Milazzo - Italy
  (7) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina - Italy
  (8) Center for the History of the University of Padua, University of Padua, Padua - Italy

• The renal stone disease of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
  

  Carmela Bisaccia¹, Gabriel Richet², Rosa Maria De Santo³, Massimo Cirillo⁴, Antonio Mezzogiorno⁵, Natale G. De Santo³, Dietrich von Engelhardt⁶

  (1) Mazzini Institute, Naples - Italy
  (2) Académie de Médecine, Paris - France
  (3) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (4) Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno - Italy
  (5) Department of Anatomy, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (6) University of Lubeck, Lubeck - Germany

• De Lapidibus podagra et chiragra in humano corpore productis (Rome, 1699): the contribution of Giovanni Battista Contoli
  

  Lorenzo A. Calò¹, Angela D’Angelo¹, Vincenzo Savica², Piero Marson³

  (1) Hypertension and Nephrology Unit, Internal Medicine 4, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova – Italy
  (2) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina - Italy
  (3) Blood Transfusion Service, University of Padova, Padova - Italy

• Diuretics in the “Istituzioni di Materia Medica e Terapeutica” (1862-1864) by Giovanni Pagano of Naples
  

  Domenico Santoro¹, Antonio Passantino¹, Carlo Alberto Ricciardi¹, Vincenzo Savica¹, Guido Bellinghieri¹

  (1) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, University of Messina - Italy

• The Giordano-Giovannetti diet
  

  Biagio Di Iorio¹, Natale G. De Santo², Pietro Anastasio³, Alessandra Perna³, Maria Rosa Pollastro³, Lucia Di Micco¹, Massimo Cirillo⁴

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Solofra Hospital, Solofra - Italy
  (2) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (3) Department of Nephrology, Second University of Naples, Naples - Italy
  (4) Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno - Italy

• Lessons from the history of transplantation
  

  David Hamilton¹

  (1) Bute Medical School, St. Andrews, Scotland - UK

• History of the term “pelvis renalis”
  

  František Šimon¹

  (1) Department of Romance Studies and Classical Philology, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice - Slovak Republic

• A translational history of nephrology in Romania: East-West feedback relationships
  

  Dana Baran¹

  (1) Gr. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi - Romania

• Nephrological knowledge in Turkey during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries
  

  Ayla San¹

  (1) Department of Nephrology, Ufuk University Medical School, Balgat, Ankara - Turkey

• History of nephrology in Mediterranean Arab countries
  

  Aziz El Matri¹

  (1) Tunis Dialysis Center, Tunis - Tunisia

• Epidemiology and treatment of kidney conditions in antiquity
  

  Alain Touwaide¹

  (1) Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions and The Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC - USA

• Some useful plants for renal therapy listed in De Plantis Aegypti Liber by Prospero Alpini in the 16th century: modern c
  

  Giovanni Aliotta¹, Natale G. De Santo², Giuseppe Ongaro³, Antonino Pollio⁴

  (1) University Center for Research in Bioethics, Naples - Italy
  (2) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy
  (3) Center for the History of the University of Padua, University of Padua, Padua - Italy
  (4) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples - Italy

• From past to present: traditional herbs used in the treatment of nephrologic diseases in southeast Turkey
  

  Ayse Balat¹

  (1) Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep - Turkey

• Wine and Honey: the oldest of medicines
  

  Jennifer Gordetsky¹, Karin Westesson², Ronald Rabinowitz³, Jeanne O’Brien³

  (1) Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland - USA
  (2) Department of Urology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio - USA
  (3) Department of Urology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York - USA

• The “Other” Olympic Games: the view of the medical doctor
  

  Athanasios A. Diamandopoulos¹

  (1) Panhellenic Society for the History and Archaeology of Medicine, Patras - Greece

• Academies and universities in a time of economic crisis in Europe (1550-1700): the case of the Padua Studium
  

  Aniello Montano¹, Gerardo Marotta², Natale G. De Santo²

  (1) Department of Human Sciences, Philosophy and Education, University of Salerno, Fisciano - Italy
  (2) Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples - Italy

• Impact of the Internet on disseminating information on the history of nephrology
  

  A. Neil Turner¹

  (1) Renal Medicine, Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland - UK

• Spyros Marketos (1931-2012): medical historian and nephrologist
  

  Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou¹, Costas Tsiamis¹

  (1) Department of History of Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Athens - Greece

• Abstracts from the 8th Congress of the International Association for the History of Nephrology Ancient Olympia-Patra (Gr
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