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By Jacob van Noordwijk. 114 pp., illustrated. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 2001. $52. ISBN 0-7923-6762-6.

Since the demonstration in the 1940s that hemodialysis can sustain life and relieve the symptoms of uremia, the widespread access to dialysis that began in the 1970s has been lifesaving for patients with kidney failure or end-stage renal disease. Today, over 1 million people worldwide are alive because of long-term dialysis; thousands of others have gone on to receive kidney transplants after variable periods of maintenance dialysis.

Like many other therapeutic advances, the advent of dialysis was slow, and bursts of progress were based on the work of pioneers from various disciplines. Thomas Graham (1805–1869), a physical chemist, is credited . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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