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High blood pressure and the kidney: the forgotten contribution of William Senhouse Kirkes

Excerpt from: “High blood pressure and the kidney: The forgotten contribution of William Senhouse Kirkes” by J. Stewart Cameron and Jackie Hicks The realization of the key role for raised intra-arterial pressure as a pathogenetic agent in hypertension is usually credited to Ludwig Traube.  But Traube in his writings gives credit for the idea to a […]