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Nephrologie
March 2004
Académie nationale de médecine, Paris.
Desault's genius and methods opened up a new field, the pathology of those medical conditions which afflict the urinary apparatus. Though he was a surgeon and therefore an anatomically based clinician, his most important discoveries were in pathological physiology, the polyuria of atrophic kidneys, the fatal dehydratation which follows the various forms of polyuric diabetes, and the oligo-anurias which follow excess water loss from the gut, the lungs ..
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