William Bowman
Anatomist; described the capsule around the glomerulus (1842) and proposed tubular secretion
- Dates
- 1816-1892 (source: Wikipedia: Sir William Bowman (listed in research/02 §11) )
- Chapters
- V. What the Water Knew
What the film says
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In 1842 showed that each tuft sits in a cup opening into a tube, and argued that the tubes secrete urine's solids.
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Not entirely wrong, the narrator adds: the tubes secrete as well.
On the timeline
- 17 February 1842: William Bowman's paper on the Malpighian bodies of the kidney is read: the glomerulus lies in a capsule continuous with the tubule, separating water while the tubule secretes the solids. timeline
Sources
Sources
- Bowman 1842, On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney (Phil Trans, OCR) Primary
- Wikipedia: Sir William Bowman (listed in research/02 §11) Secondary