1903 VIEILLARD, Camille; GILLES DE CORBEIL, (Egidius de Corbolio; Egidius Corboliensis; Aegidius) (1140 – 1215)
L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.
Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 4296.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5414
1903 KRAUSE, Fedor (1856 – 1937)
Extirpation einer Harnblase mit Einpflanzung der Ureteren in die Flexura iliaca.
Total cystectomyand bilateral ureterosigmoidostomy.
GMN 4191.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6122
1903 WITTEK, Arnold (1871 – 1956)
Zur Technik der Röntgenphotographie (Lendenwirbel, Blasensteine).
Cystography. Wittek filled the bladder with air and was able to demonstrate vertebrae and urinary calculus.
GMN 4191.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6125
1903 MARTIN, Edward (1859 – 1938)
Sterility from obstruction at the epididymis cured by operative means.
The patient described in this paper gave a past history of epididymitis and also of gonococcal urethritis which was known at that time as ‘gleet’ and which had resulted in a urethral stricture. The epididymo-vasostomy…
GMN 12791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15037
1904 GOODFELLOW, George (1856 – 1910)
Median perineal prostatectomy.
Complete perineal prostatectomy, September 1891.
GMN 4265.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5239
1904 –1905 WULLF, P
Verwendbarkeit der X-Strahlen für die Diagnose der Blasendifformitäten.
Wulff outlined the bladder with a suspension of bismuth subnitrate.
GMN 4191.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6127
1905 WATSON, Francis Sedgwick (1853 – 1942)
Some anatomical points connected with the performance of prostatectomy. With remarks upon the operative treatment of prostatic hypertrophy.
Watson first performed median perineal prostatectomy in 1889.
GMN 4266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5242
1905 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
The early diagnosis and radical cure of carcinoma of the prostate. Being a study of 40 cases and presentation of a radical operation which was carried out in four cases.
First radical prostatectomy for carcinoma.
GMN 4266.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5245
1905 VOELCKER, Friedrich (1872 – 1955); LICHTENBERG, Alexander von (1880 – 1949)
Die Gestalt der menschlichen Harnblase im Röntgenbilde.
First cystograms.
GMN 4192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6129
1906 BRIGGS, James Emmons (1869 – 1942)
A method of controlling the bleeding after suprapubic prostatectomy.
The distensible bag for controlling hemorrhage after suprapubic prostatectomy was introduced by Briggs in 1905.
GMN 4267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5250
1906 HAGNER, Francis Randall (1873 – 1940)
The operative treatment of acute gonorrheal epididymitis.
Hagner devised the open operation for the relief of acute epididymitis.
GMN 4194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6131
1906 –1907 GRAY, Alfred Leftwich (1873 – 1932)
The treatment of malignant diseases of the bladder through suprapubic incision, with report of a case.
Radiotherapy for carcinoma of bladder.
GMN 4194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6134
1909 ALBARRAN Y DOMINGUEZ, Joaquin Maria (1860 – 1912)
Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires.
Albarran, a Cuban, became a teacher of the highest rank and attained a professorship at Paris in 1892. He was the first surgeon in France to perform perineal prostatectomy.
GMN 4195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6143
1909 BUERGER, Leo (1879 – 1943)
A new direct irrigating observation and double catheterizing cystoscope.
Brown–Buerger cystoscope.
GMN 4195.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6146
1909 TOREK, Franz John A. (1861 – 1938)
The technique of orcheopexy.
Torek’s operation for undescended testicle.
GMN 4196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6148
1909 MARTIN, Edward (1859 – 1938)
The operation of epididymo-vasostomy for the relief of sterility.
Of 11 men with an epididymal obstruction, seven underwent a unilateral and four a bilateral epididymo-vasostomy. The operations consisted of the formation of a side-to-side epididymo-vasal fistula using silver wire su…
GMN 12792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15038
1910 BEER, Edwin (1876 – 1938)
Removal of neoplasms of the urinary bladder. A new method of employing high-frequency (Oudin) current through a catheterizing cystoscope.
Beer’s method of transurethral fulguration of bladder tumours, from which arose the operation of transurethral prostatectomy.
GMN 4268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5259
1910 CUNNINGHAM, John Henry (1877 – )
The diagnosis of stricture of the urethra by the roentgen rays.
Urethrography.
GMN 4196.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6152
1911 SQUIER, John Bentley (1873 – 1948)
Suprapubic intra-urethral enucleation of the prostate.
Squier modified the operation of total suprapubic prostatectomy.
GMN 4269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5263
1911 COFFEY, Robert Calvin (1869 – 1933)
Physiologic implantation of the severed ureter or common bile-duct into the intestine.
The modern method of uretero-intestinal anastomosis followed the experimental work of Coffey.
GMN 4196.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6154
1912 KAPPIS, Max (1881 – 1938)
Ueber Leitungsanästhesie bei Nierenoperationen und Thorakoplastiken überhaupt bei Operationen am Rumpf.
Paravertebral anesthesia in urology.
GMN 4197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6157
1913 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
A new procedure (punch operation) for small prostatic bars and contracture of the prostatic orifice.
Young’s punch prostatectomy operation.
GMN 4270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5265
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); BURNHAM, Curtis F.
Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women. With 628 illustrations, for the most part by Max Brödel
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14111
1919 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945); ET AL
A new germicide for use in the genito-urinary tract; “mercurochrome-220”.
Introduction of mercurochrome. With E. C. White and E. O. Swartz.
GMN 1908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2661
1920 CAULK, John Roberts (1881 – 1938)
Infiltration anesthesia of the internal vesical orifice for the removal of minor obstructions: presentation of a cautery punch.
Caulk’s cautery punch.
GMN 4271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5271
1920 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945); WATERS, Charles Alexander (1888 – 1961)
X-ray studies of the seminal vesicles and vasa deferentia after urethroscopic injection of the ejaculatory ducts with thorium – a new diagnostic method.
Vesiculography first demonstrated.
GMN 4198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6159
1922 GERAGHTY, John Timothy (1876 – 1924)
A new method of perineal prostatectomy which insures more perfect functional results.
Geraghty’s modification of Young’s perineal prostatectomy.
GMN 4272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5274
1923 MCCARTHY, Joseph Francis (1874 – 1965)
A new type of observation and operating cysto-urethroscope.
McCarthy foroblique pan-endoscope.
GMN 4198.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6163
1923 ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959); OSBORNE, Earl Dorland (1895 – 1960); ET AL
Roentgenography of the urinary tract during excretion of sodium iodide.
First use of sodium iodide in uretero-pyelography. With C. G. Sutherland and A. J. Scholl.
GMN 4199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6166
1926 STERN, Maxmilian (1878 – 1946)
Minor surgery of the prostate gland; a new cystoscopic instrument employing a cutting current capable of operation in a water medium.
Stern’s resectoscope.
GMN 4273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5278
1927 –1928 MCCARRISON, Sir Robert (1878 – 1960)
The experimental production of stone-in-the-bladder.
McCarrison’s experiments showed that urinary calculi could follow a diet probably deficient in vitamin A.
GMN 4296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5406
1929 SWICK, Moses (1900 – 1985)
Darstellung der Niere und Harnwege im Röntgenbild durch intravenöse Einbringung eines neuen Kontraststoffes, des Uroselectans.
Introduction of Uroselectan. In a following paper (pp. 2089-91), A. von Lichtenberg and M. Swick used it in human excretion urography.
GMN 4200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6186
1931 RANDALL, Alexander (1883 – 1951)
Surgical pathology of prostatic obstructions.
GMN 4274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5281
1933 BALLENGER, Edgar Garrison (1877 – 1945)
History of urology. Prepared under the auspices of the American Urological Association. Editorial Committee: Edgar G. Ballenger, William A. FRontz, Homer G. Hamer, and Bransford Lewis. 2 vols
Every aspect of the subject is covered exhaustively by the various contributors to this collective work; valuable bibliographies are included.
GMN 4297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5426
1933 SWICK, Moses (1900 – 1985)
Excretion urography by means of the intravenous and oral administration of sodium ortho-iodohippurate: with some physiological considerations.
Introduction of Hippuran.
GMN 4201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6191
1934 –1935 HARRIS, Samuel Harry (1881 – 1936)
Suprapubic prostatectomy with closure.
Harris’s operation, first described by him on 26 March, 1927, and briefly reported in Med. J. Aust., 1927, 1, 460.
GMN 4275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5287
1935 ROSENHEIM, Max Leonard (1908 – 1972)
Mandelic acid in the treatment of urinary infections.
Introduction of mandelic acid in the treatment of urinary infections.
GMN 4202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6195
1937 FOLEY, Frederic Eugene Basil (1891 – 1966)
A new plastic operation for stricture at the uretero-pelvic junction: report of 20 operations.
Foley’s operation for hydronephrosis.
GMN 4250.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5145
1941 HUGGINS, Charles Brenton (1901 – 1997); HODGES, Clarence Vernard (1914 – 2001)
Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.
In 1966 Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer."
GMN 4276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5291
1945 HUGGINS, Charles Brenton (1901 – 1997); SCOTT, William Wallace (1913 – 2000)
Bilateral adrenalectomy in prostatic cancer; clinical features and urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen.
Adrenalectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.
GMN 4276.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5295
1945 MILLIN, Terence John (1903 – 1980)
Retropubic prostatectomy. A new extravesical technique.
Retropubic prostatectomy.
GMN 4277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5297
1948 DAKIN, Wirt Bradley (1883 – 1975)
Urological oddities.
GMN 11620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13820
1950 DE NICOLA, Rocco Robert (1916 – )
Permanent artificial (silicone) urethra.
First implantation of silicone rubber tube to replace urethra.
GMN 4203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6200
1951 COUVELAIRE, Roger (1903 – 1986)
Le réservoir iléal de substitution après la cystectomie totale chez l’homme.
Artificial bladder.
GMN 4203.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6205
1970 ELLIS, Harold (1926 – )
A history of bladder stone.
GMN 4297.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5429
1971 MURPHY, Leonard James Thomas (1914 – )
The history of urology.
A scholarly, detailed work. Part 1 is an adapted translation of E. Desnos: Histoire de l’urologie, in Encyclopédie française d’urologie, eds. A. Pousson & E. Desnos, 1914, 1, 1-294.
GMN 4297.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5434
1992 IGNARRO, Louis Joseph (1941 – ); RAJFER, Jacob; ARONSON, William J.; ET AL
Nitric oxide as a mediator of relaxation of the corpus cavernosum in response to nonadrenergic, noncholinergic neurotransmission.
Using strips of corpus cavernosum tissue from 21 male volunteers, the authors showed how the interaction of nitric oxide with the musculo/vascular system of the human penile corpora cavernosa initiated and maintained …
GMN 14334 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16660
1996 BOOLELL, Mau; OSTERLOH, Ian; ET AL
Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.
Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…
GMN 8872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11050
2014 MORAN, Michael Edward
Urolithiasis: A comprehensive history.
GMN 12149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14359
