History of Dialysis Videos and Nephrology History Links
Acknowledgements
Group One consists of 12 links to movies about people and events in the early history of the development of dialysis treatment. Ten of the movies were collected by Patrick McBride of Baxter during the preparation of his book, Genesis of the Artificial Kidney (1982 and 1987) and the first video of Group One – Dialysis: The Challenge (1982) narrated by Dr. George Schreiner. The McBride movies were converted to videotapes some years later and links to the present videos were made possible by:
- Kim Solez, M.D., co-founder and co-director of the International Society of the Nephrology Video Legacy Project. Dr. Solez and his team at the University of Alberta provided digital conversion of DVD’s from the videotapes provided by Lee Henderson, M.D., then Vice President of the Renal Division of Baxter International
- Kenneth Serkes, M.D., former Medical Director of the Artificial Organs Division of Baxter, isolated the individual movies from the DVD’s and prepared the links to each movie.
- The recollections of Dr. Kolff of his experiences in Holland and the U.S. were prepared from an interview in multiple segments on an ISN website.
Group Two consists of additional links at public websites also devoted to the history of dialysis.
Viewers should first watch the movie, Dialysis: The Challenge, in its entirety. This tells the story and ties together the history, events, and people who contributed to the development of successful hemodialysis. It also provides an important introduction to viewing the other videos in Group One.
Travenol History of Dialysis Movie (1982)
An interview with Hume, Merrill, and Scribner by Eugene Stead
Recollections by Willem Kolff
John Jacob Abel lecture
Kolff at Kampen, the Netherlands, 1949
Early dialysis at Schreiner’s Georgetown unit (silent)
Dialysis with recovery at Hammersmith Hospital, London
History of Dialysis: Men and Ideas (Carl Kjellstrand)
Urea Kinetics in Dialysis (John Daugirdas)
John Merrill: Setting up dialysis and the Brigham
Paul Teschan’s unit in Korea (1950-53)
Early manufacture of the Travenol twin coil kidney (silent)
Group Two Videos. These consist of additional links at public web sites, also devoted to the history of dialysis:
ERA-EDTA Interviews with Masters of Nephrology
ERA-EDTA Pioneers of European Nephrology
George Schreiner interview from ISN Video Legacy site
VOICE Expeditions: Interviews with sentinel nephrologists
Stanley Shaldon reminisces
Christopher Blagg reminisces
ISN Oral Segments (Abel, Kolff, Heptinstall, Kincaid-Smith, and Seldin)
ISN interview transcripts with nephrology pioneers
ISN Video Legacy Project: Drs. Ori Better, GE Schreiner, and Kirpal Chugh
History of Renal Units in the U.K.
Edinburgh Renal Unit
History of Dialysis in the U.K. 1950-80
Artificial Organs history timeline
U.S. National Library of Medicine guide to artificial organs history collections
Brief history of dialysis and transplantation
1915 dialysis of a dog in Germany by George Haas
Modifications of the Abel vividiffusion apparatus (link to 1914 article in Exp. Biol. Med.)
John P. Merrill (center, back row): Inaugural member of nephrology hall of fame
Homer Smith Comical Film about Renal Function
Resurrection of Video Legacy Project April, 2018 (Kim Solez)
