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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17: 1391-1395
© 2002 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Historical Note

Contribution of Paul Govaerts (1889–1960) to the understanding of oedema and proteinuria

The essential role of physiological knowledge in clinical medicine

Charles Toussaint

Service de Néphrologie, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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L'une des fonctions de la science clinique est de mettre à l'épreuve la validité des conceptions physiologiques.

PAUL GOVAERTS, 1953

Introduction

‘Twenty-nine years ago there arrived in the small and improvised laboratory of Dana Atchley at the old Presbyterian Hospital in New York a modest but dynamic Belgian scientist and clinician armed with an inquiring mind and a small osmometer. This was Paul Govaerts.’ These words were written by Robert F. Loeb on the occasion of Govaerts’ retirement in 1955. On the same occasion Jean Hamburger wrote: ‘A ce moment parut votre ‘Fonctionnement du rein malade’ [1]. Ce fut pour moi une lecture presque bouleversante. Le livre tout entier était consacré à la recherche d'explications nouvelles qui permettaient de regarder chaque syndrome morbide comme le dérèglement d'un mécanisme normal. La physiologie et la médecine du rein célébraient enfin leur union. La néphrologie . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Oedema

Proteinuria


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