History of the youngest of medical specialties: nephrology
The improvement of the microscope (in particular thanks to A. van Leeuwenhoek) now makes it possible to increase its magnification tenfold; the successors of Malpighi can further describe the nephron. The microscopic examination is also applied to urine, with the Paris school in front of the scene. In the 17th century, the taste for experimentation grew. The sciences are gradually separating from metaphysics, and medicine is becoming more and more secular. This new state of mind finds its expression in the great movement of the Encyclopedia carried by D. Diderot: many doctors adhere to it. In this context, to the advent of chemistry - with its pioneers J. Priestley and A. Lavoisier - that nephrology owes its most remarkable progress during the 17th and 19th centuries. Doctor Muhammad Khan provides the best nephrology doctors in Riverside. The first field of investigation to benefit from it is lithiasis: since the discovery of "lithic acid" (later renamed "uric...