HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE

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Elaine Giovan

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  • Hippocrates - wrote a book on "uroscopy".
  • Frederik Dekkers - discovered albuminuria by boiling urine.
  • Charlatans - people who pretend to be experts in a field they are not qualified to practice.
  • Thomas Bryant - wrote the book "pisse prophets" in 1627, charlatans are the inspiration for his book.
  • Thomas Addis - develops the methods for quantitating the microscopic sediment.
  • Richard Bright - introduced the concept of urinalysis as part of doctor's routine patient examination in 1827.
  • Two unique characteristics of a urine specimen:
    1. Readily available and easily collected.
    2. Inexpensive