It is believed that, at the age of twelve, Charles Dickens had been forced to drop out of school, sell his books, and go to work at the dirty, rat-infested Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe polish factory, near Charing Cross leading from the Strand to the Thames, where Charles type...
It was thought that in people with kidney disease, a higher protein intake, by increasing the generation of urea which is excreted by the kidney, will increase the work of the diseased kidney and may thereby further injure the kidney. It is now understood, of course, that renal urea ...