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<Articles JournalTitle="Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2008-0387</Issn>
      <Volume>2</Volume>
      <Issue>0</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2009</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>22</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">A simple apparatus for measuring the blood urea, manufactured by Dr. Luigj Benusi in 1943 in Albania</title>
    <FirstPage>48</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>48</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Flamur</FirstName>
        <LastName>Tartari</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Service of Urology, UHC Mother Theresa, Rr. Dibr&#xEB;s 371 Tirana, Albania.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Stiliano</FirstName>
        <LastName>Buzo</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Rr. Dibr&#xEB;s 371, Tirana, Albania.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Gentian</FirstName>
        <LastName>Vyshka</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Section of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Rr. Dibr&#xEB;s 371, Tirana, Albania.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2015</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>04</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>01</Month>
        <Day>19</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">The apparatus invented by Dr. Luigj Benusi in 1943, in Tirana, was a practical application of the Kowarsky technique and Ambard laws, helping in determining blood urea levels and very important to a variety of diseases, mainly kidney disorders.
The apparatus was invented and prepared from very simple laboratory materials, such as glasses, test tubes, corks and volumetric cylinders. Technologically, it was based upon the determination of blood urea through hypobromite, and, among the advantages of the apparatus of Benusi, were its extreme simplicity, the smaller amount of blood needed for producing results (2 milliliters), as well as an easiest way to clean up and to manage the apparatus from a practical point of everyday use.&#xA0; &#xA0;</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/view/48</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/download/48/33</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
