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Reporting their findings last week in a book published in Britain (Studies of the Renal Circulation; Blackwell Scientific Publications),* Trueta's group hopefully declared: "We believe that [the primary factors causing high blood pressure] will eventually be found in the central nervous system, even in the human mind itself, and that with their discovery will come a complete understanding of the condition known as 'essential hypertension,' affording a new hope for the victims of this disease of civilized...
Billy Meers is four years old. Unless he gets at least a pint of blood a day, Billy Meers will die soon of renal edema, a kidney disease characterized by leakage of blood proteins into the urine. There are hundreds of patients like Billy in the U.S. Their blood needs are so extravagant that most doctors and hospitals give up the fight quickly, and the patient dies...
...selected for the award of the Boylston Prize on account of its value in cleaning up many of the uncertainties, in regard to this subject. The essay was entitled, "Observation on the composition of the Glomerular Urine with Particular Reference to the Problem of Reabsorption in the Renal Tubules...