Richard Bright
Physician at Guy's Hospital, London
- Dates
- 1789-1858 (source: Life dates, as given for Richard Bright )
- Chapters
- V. What the Water Knew
What the film says
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Heated urine in a spoon over a candle in 1827 and followed patients with dropsy to the post-mortem table.
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Quoted on the constant finding of diseased kidneys in patients dying with dropsy and coagulable urine.
On the timeline
- 1825-1827: Richard Bright gathers the 23 cases of his first volume of Reports at Guy's Hospital. probable timeline
- 1827: Bright's Reports of Medical Cases links dropsy, urine that coagulates with heat, and diseased kidneys. timeline
- May to October 1842: All 41 beds under Bright's care at Guy's are given to renal cases. probable timeline