Richet Gabriel, Bisaccia Carmela, De Santo Natale G
Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris, France.
J Nephrol. 2003 Sep-Oct;16(5):754-9.
Desault's genius and methods opened up a field: the medical diseases of the urinary tract. Though he was a surgeon and therefore an anatomically based clinician, his most important contributions were in renal pathophysiology: separation of diseases regarding the formation of urine from those regarding the excretion; comparison of anuria with urine retention; polyuria of atrophic kidney; fatal dehydration due to polyuria in diabetic patients; oligo anuria following excess waterloss from the gut, the lungs...etc. In the last two conditions the kidneys might look normal and therefore might be presumed healthy. If Desault's work had survived this physiological eruption into renal disorders would have been a definitive step of modern nephrology. From a historical point of view, one could suspect that Bichat shifted from anatomy and surgery to medicine and physiology after having posthumously compiled and edited the Desault's book, "Traité des Maladies des voies urinaires".
泌尿道的医学疾病。尽管他是一名外科医生，因此是一名基于解剖学的临床医生，但他最重要的贡献在于肾脏病理生理学：将与尿液形成有关的疾病与与排泄有关的疾病区分开来；无尿与尿潴留的比较；萎缩性肾病的多尿；糖尿病患者因多尿导致的致命脱水；肠道、肺部等水分过度流失后的少尿或无尿。在最后两种情况下，肾脏可能看起来正常，因此可能被认为是健康的。如果德索的著作在这场对肾脏疾病的生理学突破中得以留存，那将是现代肾脏病学的决定性一步。从历史角度看，有人可能会怀疑，比夏在死后编纂并编辑了德索的《泌尿道疾病论》一书后，从解剖学和外科转向了医学和生理学。
