I was trawling the internet for an old computer (The BBC Micro) the other day. I was reading through the BBC Tomorrows World website - a very popular tv series in its day - and discovered the very first programme in 1965 was about kidney dialysis.
The film is available online at Tomorrows World - its near the start so you don't have to watch the whole episode.
I remember my wife talking about a dialysing on a Kiele machine for 12 hours every other day - not sure if its the same one though.
Russ

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