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Endocrinology/history , Hashimoto Disease/diagnosis , Hashimoto Disease/history , Endocrinology/methods , Endocrinology/trends , Hashimoto Disease/pathology , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Hypertrophy/diagnosis , Hypertrophy/history , Pathology, Clinical/history , Pathology, Clinical/methods , Thyroid Gland/pathologySubject(s)
Educational Measurement/history , Phimosis/history , Yellow Fever/history , Fellowships and Scholarships/history , History, 19th Century , Humans , Hypertrophy/history , Hypertrophy/surgery , Louisiana , Male , Penis/pathology , Periodicals as Topic/history , Phimosis/surgery , Scrotum/pathology , Yellow Fever/microbiologyABSTRACT
It has been known for 300 years that normal life is possible with a single kidney. Removal of both kidneys, however, leads to death within several days. Between these extremes is found the quantity of kidney sufficient for life. It was in 1888 that Theodore Tuffier was the first to address this question. A few years later, Carnot did his studies on growth factors that could influence kidney growth. This subject has not lost its interest. Today, the problem of progressive renal failure is studied by many investigators, from clinicians to basic scientists, specialists in cytokines and molecular biology. This article will define the origins of those efforts, an adventure which is ongoing today.
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Kidney Diseases/history , Kidney/pathology , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Hypertrophy/history , Nephrectomy/historyABSTRACT
In the early 1970s, excavation at the King site, a contact period Mississippian village in northwest Georgia, yielded the skeletal remains of a robust male (King 65) possessing marked hypertrophy of the acetabulo-cristal buttress. The buttress is morphologically similar to that of Plio-Pleistocene Homo but it is accompanied by an anatomically modern degree of thickening of the gluteal table of the ilium. Although the degree of cortical thickness of the gluteal table of the ilium is apparently species-specific, hypertrophy of the acetabulo-cristal buttress is developmental and may be expressed in all species of Homo.
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Hominidae , Ilium/pathology , Paleopathology , Acetabulum/pathology , Animals , Anthropometry , Female , Fossils , Georgia , History, Ancient , Humans , Hypertrophy/history , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
John Peacock MD was in practice in Darlington when he published his Practical Hints on the Treatment of Several Diseases in 1834. It is suggested that his cases described therein of ;scirrhous pylorus' are adult hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. If authenticated, his work would predate the earliest description of this condition by the French pathologist, Professor Jean Cruveilhier in 1835.