Landmark perspective: The landmark identical twin case

Abstract

In the autumn of 1979, the 25th anniversary was observed in Boston of the kidney transplantation that was the subject of the LANDMARK ARTICLE by Merrill and co-workers1that is reproduced in this issue. All of the authors of the article were members of the Harvard Medical School Faculty serving at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where research in renal transplantation had been an important activity for several preceding years and where such work has continued to the present time. The decision at these institutions to focus for a historical celebration on the first identical twin transplantation rather than some earlier or subsequent event revealed an in-house perception of the importance of the case that has been shared by outside students of medical history such as Groth2of Stockholm. Of the four authors, Merrill and Guild were internists. The specialty of nephrology was somewhere between nonexistent and fledgling.

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