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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(Supplement 5):v37-v38; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm297
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© The Author [2007]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. for Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Serendipity: a necessity for the progress of dialysis therapy

Bruno Perrone

Service de Néphrologie et Dialyse, Hôpital Saint Louis, Saintes, France

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Bruno Perrone, MD, Centre Hospitalier de Saintes, F-17100 Saintes, France. Email: perrone.bruno@wanadoo.fr

Keywords: membranes; proteomic analysis; uraemic pruritus

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The word ‘Serendipity’ was coined by Horace Walpole (1717–1797), 4th Earl of Orford. In a letter he wrote in 1757, he talked about a ‘silly fairy tale’ that he had once read, from which he derived the word ‘serendipity’ for describing the ability to make accidental discoveries. ‘As their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of ’ says the fairy tale.

Accidental discoveries have, for sure, been the most important ones in the development of science. According to Freeman . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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