We should be grateful to the Father of Dialysis, Dr. Willem Kolff who built the first artificial kidney, now known as the Dialyzer in the 1940’s in a hospital in the Netherlands.
Dr Kloff witnessed a helpless patient die of kidney failure there and decided to find a way to build a machine that would do the work of the kidneys.
However, World War II interrupted his research and he was sent off to a remote hospital in the Netherlands.
This is where he spent time with scarce material to make a device that would clear the blood of toxins.
He made this from orange juice cans, parts from the washing machine and sausage skin.
