people contributed to urinalysis

Richard Bright

Introduced urinalysis as part of doctor’s examination

Relationship of edema, protein in urine, and abnormal kidney autopsy

Hippocrates

Wrote a book on uroscopy

Fluid intake and urine output relationship

Advacate of urinalysis

Thomas Bryant

Pisse prophets

Frederick Dekkers

Discovered albuminuria by boiling urine

Thomas Addis

Quantify urine sediments (Addis Count)

John Bostock

Physician-chemist

patients with low SG and high Protein in urine have renal disease

William Prout

Wrote a handbook on urinalysis

Tests included in urinalysis

Alfred Francois Donne

WBCs in urine as “pus cells”

Differentiated crystals from amorphous structures (donne’s test)

Golding Bird

Casts in patients with Bright’s diease