History of Nephrology: 3rd Congress of the International Association for the History of Nephrology, Taormina, November 2001, Vol. 22 Book

	Introduction
	On the Continued Reconstruction of the History of Nephrology
	Hippocrates, Galen and the Jews: Renal Medicine in the Talmud
	The Role of the Kidney as a Religious, Cultural and Sexual Symbol
	Herbal Diuretics Revisited: From 'Wise Women' to William Withering
	The History of Nephrology in the Talmudic Corpus
	Pseudo-Galen's De urinis: A Multifactorial Technique of Diagnosis and a Cultural Interpretation of Color
	Renal and Glomerular Circulation according to Oribasius (4th Century)
	Ancient Greek and Byzantine Writers on Veterinary Renal Problems
	Renal Terminology from the Corpus Hippocraticum
	The Medieval Kidney
	Contributions of Monastic Medicine: From Hippocratic School to Salernitan Medical School. De urinis et pulsis secundum praecepta Dionisi
	The Pre-Vesalian Kidney: Gabriele Zerbi, 1445-1505
	Use of Natural Substances in the Treatment of Renal Stones and Other Urinary Disorders in the Medieval Levant
	Renal Physiology between Two Wars: The Contributions of Dr. Harvey Lester White
	The Scientific Achievements of R. F. Pitts and V. du Vigneaud
	Scientific Achievements of John P. Peters
	The Hunger Disease of the Warsaw Ghetto
	Nephrology in the Low Countries in the 17-18th Century. Frederik Ruysch, Hermann Boerhaave
	Pediatric Nephrology in Europe from the 16th to the 19th Century
	History of the Nephron
	Ippolito Albertini and Michael Albertus: Disparate Old and Innovative Theories on Dropsy and Edema
	Emergence of the Concept of Acute Renal Failure
	Development of the Idea of Chronic Renal Failure
	The Origins and Development of the Concept of a 'Nephrotic Syndrome'
	The Emergence of the Discipline of Renal Immunopathology
	Nephrolithiasis at the Turn of the 18th to 19th Centuries: Biochemical Disturbances. A Genuine Cascade Giving Rise to Clinical Chemistry
	Balkan Nephropathy: A Disorder of Renal Embryogenesis?
	The Discovery of Nephrouroameba: Was It Real or Not?
	Gordon Murray: Heparin, Hemodialysis and Hubris
	History of Dietary Protein Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Renal Disease from the Mid 1800s until the 1950s
	Now and Then, the History of Parenteral Fluid Administration
	Hermann Boerhaave and Lithotomy: What He Thought about It
	The Discovery of Renal Contrast Media in Berlin
	The Farsighted Studies of the Italian Carlo L. Rovida (1844-1877) on the Nature of Urinary Casts
	Author Index
	Subject Index