1536 MASSA, Niccoló (1489 – 1569)
Liber introductorius anatomiae sive dissectionis corporis humani; in quo quam plurima membra, operationes, & utilitates tam ab antiquis, quam a modernis praetermissa manifestantur.
A practical manual for dissection, showing how to carry out an anatomy from the first incision onwards. Massa based his work on his experience gained from numerous dissections that he had undertaken in the hospital of…
GMN 1536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2862
1817 LANGSTAFF, George (1780 – 1846)
Cases of Fungus haematodes, with observations.
Prostatic carcinoma first reported (p. 279).
GMN 4258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5207
1839 STAFFORD, Richard Anthony (1801 – 1854)
A case of enlargement from melanoid tumour of the prostate gland, in a child of five years of age.
Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford.
GMN 4259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5210
1841 MERCIER, Louis-Auguste (1811 – 1882)
Recherches anatomiques, pathologiques et thérapeutiques sur les maladies des organes urinaires et génitaux considerés specialement chez les hommes agés.
Mercier emphasized the importance of the muscle fibres around the bladder neck, “Mercier’s bar”, in prostatism.
GMN 4259.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5213
1851 ADAMS, John (1806 – 1877)
The anatomy and diseases of the prostate gland.
Adams was the first to distinguish between hypertrophy and carcinoma of the prostate. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 4260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5215
1874 BOTTINI, Enrico (1837 – 1903)
Di un nuovo cauterizzatore ed incisore termo-galvanico contro le iscurie da ipertrofia prostatica.
Bottini’s galvano-cautery for relief of prostatic obstruction.
GMN 4261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5218
1888 MCGILL, Arthur Ferguson (1846 – 1890)
On supra-pubic prostatectomy, with three cases in which the operation was successfully performed for chronic prostatic hypertrophy.
McGill pioneered the operation of suprapubic prostatectomy, first performed by him in March 1887.
GMN 4262.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5225
1890 BOTTINI, Enrico (1837 – 1903)
Ueber radicale Behandlung der auf Hypertrophie der Prostata beruhenden Ischurie.
Bottini’s Operation for hypertrophy of the prostate.
GMN 4262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5221
1895 FULLER, Eugene (1858 – 1930)
Six successful and successive cases of prostatectomy.
Fuller was the first to accomplish the removal of both intra-vesical and intra-urethral enlargements of the prostate by the process of suprapubic enucleation.
GMN 4263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5228
1901 FREYER, Sir Peter Johnston (1851 – 1921)
A clinical lecture on total extirpation of the prostate for radical cure of enlargement of that organ with four successful cases.
Freyer claimed priority over Fuller (No. 4263) in originating the rectovesical method of prostatectomy. Although mistaken in this claim, Freyer certainly popularized the operation. Regarding the controversy, see Brit.…
GMN 4264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5232
1903 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
Conservative perineal prostatectomy.
Young’s operation of perineal prostatectomy.
GMN 4265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5234
1904 GOODFELLOW, George (1856 – 1910)
Median perineal prostatectomy.
Complete perineal prostatectomy, September 1891.
GMN 4265.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5239
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1931 RANDALL, Alexander (1883 – 1951)
Surgical pathology of prostatic obstructions.
GMN 4274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5281
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
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
