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Editorial
. 2012 Jul;461(1):3-11.
doi: 10.1007/s00428-012-1254-7. Epub 2012 Jun 3.

Historical milestones in renal pathology

Jan J Weening, J Charles Jennette
Editorial

Historical milestones in renal pathology

Jan J Weening et al. Virchows Arch. 2012 Jul.
No abstract available

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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Marcello Malpighi, approx 1660. From the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Museo Galileo, Firenze, Italy
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Fig. 2
Giovanni Baptista Morgagni’s major work “DE SEDIBUS ET CAUSIS MORBORUM” (Ed. Venice, 1762). From the Bibliotheca Accademia Pugliese, Italy
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Fig. 3
Sir William Bowman, approx 1875, From the Science Photolibrary
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Bowman’s schematic drawing of the nephron. From The Science Photolibrary
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Fig. 5
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885). Henle worked in Berlin, Zürich, Heidelberg, and Göttingen. Robert Koch was his student and together they established the Henle–Koch postulates concerning the definition of disease-causing microbes. From Images from the History of Medicine
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Theodor Fahr as the director of the Institute of Pathology at the University of Hamburg. From Historical Archives of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute of Medical History, University Hamburg, Germany
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Fig. 7
Robert M. Kark who with Robert Muehrcke and renal pathologist Conrad Pirani pioneered the use of the renal biopsy in patient care. From Images from the History of Medicine
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Fig. 8
Early generation electron microscope. From Siemens, 1955; Science Museum London, UK
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Fig. 9
Robert Heptinstall whose ground-breaking textbook Pathology of the Kidney influenced generations of nephropathologists and nephrologists. From Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
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