The study of kidney disease was furthered by William Howship Dickinson's description of acute nephritis in 1875 and Frederick Akbar Mahomed's discovery of the link between kidney disease and hypertension in the 1870s.

What did Richard Bright discover?

Richard Bright described acute nephritis, nephrosis (=nephrotic syndrome), uraemia, small contracted and large swollen kidneys, and also noted the link between kidney disease and an enlarged left ventricle as an indirect sign of hypertension (the first sphygmogaph was not invented until 1854 y Karl von Vierordt, and ...

Who discovered kidney function?

During the next two years Bowman published three major papers on the structure and function of voluntary muscle, the minute anatomy of the liver, and the structure and function of the kidneys. Most significant were his discoveries concerning the kidneys.