Hippocrates' Intuition on the Renal Tubule's Role in Ion Exchange.
Athanasios Diamandopoulos
Published in: Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (2023)
Hippocrates did not, and could not, know the details of renal function. Although his hypothesis is crude, we are justified to consider it as the medical ancestor of our current physiological knowledge about the role of the renal tubules.