| dc.contributor.author | Miller, Hugh | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-15T14:37:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-15T14:37:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1936 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35334 | |
| dc.description.abstract | | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Our knowledge of the functions of the kidneys
has thus developed parallel with the rise and growth
of other branches of science and of the human mind.
It has developed from the mystical folk -lore such as
we have seen in the Bible to a complicated mass of
knowledge based on innumerable investigations, which
have drawn from every field of science and utilised
every natural force to solve the problem of the
nature and functions of the kidney. In our present
state of knowledge, despite the factor of various controversies,
we feel that we must be very near the
truth; yet perhaps even the Greeks in their day
possessed the same feeling of satisfaction, unaware,
and never even thinking of the development of modern
lines of investigation. Perhaps the future may
open up avenues of approach which we too have not
even dreamt of, which may shatter or substantiate
our knowledge. | en |
| dc.publisher | The University of Edinburgh | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2019 Block 22 | en |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | | en |
| dc.title | The history of our knowledge regarding the functions of the kidneys | en |
| dc.title.alternative | The history of our knowledge regarding the functions of the kidney: submitted for the Wellcome Prize in the History of Medicine, 1936 | en |
| dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en |
| dc.type.qualificationname | Prize Essay | en |
