Facets

1841 CE

#4259.1

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.

1910 CE

#4268

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.

1939 CE

#2724

Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.

Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.

1919 CE

#4239

Renal efficiency tests in nephritis, and the reaction of the urine.

Alkaline tide of urine.

1987 CE

#1588.23

Renal physiology: People and ideas.

A collective work on the history of renal physiology with thematic chapters by the editors and other prominent investigators.

1827 CE–1831 CE

#2285

Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy. 2 vols. in 3.

Beside's Bright's classic description of chronic non-suppurative nephritis, known eponymically as “Bright’s disease”, the Reports contain numerous other outstanding contributions to general pathology…

1857 CE

#1233

Researches into the structure and physiology of the kidney.

1945 CE

#4277

Retropubic prostatectomy. A new extravesical technique.

Retropubic prostatectomy.

1896 CE

#4293

Roentgen rays. Photography of renal calculus.

First radiogram of renal calculus.

1923 CE

#4199

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.

1901 CE

#4295

Scratch-marks on the wax-tipped catheter as a means of determining the presence of stone in the kidney and in the ureter.

Kelly tipped the catheter with wax, so that it registered clearly any pressure from sharp stones. This became an important means of diagnosing calculi.

1937 CE

#2721

Secreción hipertensora del rinón isquemiado.

Houssay and Fasciolo transplanted an ischemic kidney into an animal from which both kidneys had been removed. Hypertension resulted after establishment of circulation, supporting the view that hypertension is due to a…

1883 CE

#12752

Sexual impotence in the male.

One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…

1996 CE

#8872

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…

1895 CE

#4263

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.

1905 CE

#4266

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.

1886 CE

#4182

Some observations on rupture of the urinary bladder, with an account of two cases of intra-peritoneal rupture successfully treated by abdominal section and subsequent suture of the vesical rent.

MacCormac introduced an operation for the treatment of intraperitoneal rupture of the bladder.

1899 CE

#4191.1

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

1876 CE

#4174.1

Sondirung des Harnleiters mit Hilfe des Endoskops.

Successful catheterization of the ureter under vision.

1903 CE

#12791

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 epididy…

1947 CE

#1245

Studies of the renal circulation.

With A. E. Barclay, P. M. Daniel, K. J. Franklin, and M. M. L. Prichard. In studying the anurias which follow injury, especially crushing injuries and burns, Trueta’s team demonstrated that both the processes of…

1928 CE–1929 CE

#4246

Studies of urea excretion.

Blood urea clearance test. With J. F. Mcintosh and D. D. Van Slyke.

1934 CE

#2719

Studies on experimental hypertension. 1. The production of persistent elevation of systolic blood pressure by means of renal ischemia.

Goldblatt discovered the role of the kidneys in the regulation of blood pressure. This was the first of Goldblatt’s papers on experimental hypertension, which established an aetiologic role for renal ischemia in…

1926 CE

#1241

Studies on kidney function.

First attempt to determine the glomerular filtration rate in man.

1941 CE

#4276

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."

1956 CE

#4257

Successful homotransplantation of the human kidney between identical twins.

This was the first successful kidney transplant. The patient, both of whose own kidneys had been removed, was alive 11 months after the transplant. With Warren R. Guild. See No. 4256.1. In 1990 Joseph Murray shared th…

1476 CE

#4204

Summa conservationis et curationis. Chirurgia.

Contains (Cap. cxl) his classic account of renal edema: De duritie in renibus, an English translation of which is in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 527. ISTC no. is00032000.

1911 CE

#4269

Suprapubic intra-urethral enucleation of the prostate.

Squier modified the operation of total suprapubic prostatectomy.

1934 CE–1935 CE

#4275

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.

1826 CE

#4289

Sur la lithotritie ou broiement de la pierre dans la vessie.

Civiale invented a lithotriteur for crushing stones inside the bladder and was responsible for putting the operation of lithotrity upon a sound basis. His claim to have introduced the operation was opposed by Leroy d&…

1845 CE

#4168.1

Sur les cathéters coudés, sur la manière de les introduire et sur les avantages qu’on peut rétirer de leur emploi.

Mercier introduced the coudé catheter in 1836 and the bicoudé about 1841.

1896 CE

#4226.1

Sur un série de quarante opérations pratiquées sur la rein.

First planned nephrostomy.

1931 CE

#4274

Surgical pathology of prostatic obstructions.

1822 CE

#13314

System of surgical anatomy. Part first [all published]: On the structure of the groin, pelvis, and perineum. As connected with inguinal and femoral hernia; Tyeing the iliac arteries; and the operation of lithotomy. Illustrated by nine copper-plate engravings

Anderson trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, emigrated to America in 1820 and, after delivering a series of anatomical lectures in New York under the patronage of Valentine Mott, became affiliated w…

1906 CE

#4233

Technique de la néphropexie.

“Albarran’s operation” – nephropexy.

1901 CE

#1236.1

The action of pituitary extracts on the kidney.

Magnus and Starling reported that pituitary extracts caused expansion of the kidney and a marked and often prolonged diuresis. This was the first indication that the neurohypophysis plays a part in the regulation of u…

1929 CE

#1243

The aglomerular kidney of the toadfish (Opsanus tau).

Proof that the tubules of the kidney of a vertebrate could secrete foreign substances.

1851 CE

#4260

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.

1880 CE

#1225

The anatomy and pathology of two important glands of the female urethra.

“Skene’s glands” described.

1947 CE

#1244.2

The antidiuretic hormone and the factors which determine its release.

Verney elucidated the factors that determine the release of antidiuretic hormone, and introduced the osmoreceptor concept.

1944 CE

#4255

The artificial kidney: Dialyser with great area.

The Kolff artificial kidney. With H. T. J. Berk and others. Kolff first published his discovery in a neutral country (Sweden) since in 1944 Holland was occupied by the Germans. See also No. 1976.

1974 CE

#12343

The courage to fail: A social view of organ transplants and dialysis.

Includes chapters on the heart transplantation moratorium and the artificial heart.

1901 CE

#4229

The cure of chronic Bright’s disease by operation.

Edebohls introduced the operation of renal decortication for the treatment of chronic nephritis.

1910 CE

#4196.1

The diagnosis of stricture of the urethra by the roentgen rays.

Urethrography.

1971 CE

#10007

The dynamics of glomerular ultrafiltration in the rat.

"Brenner and colleagues combined two relatively novel tools: a servo-null device for accurate measurment of capillary hydrostatic pressure... and a strain of specially selected rats with superficially located glomerul…

1905 CE

#4266.1

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.

1874 CE

#2906.1

The etiology of Bright’s disease and the prealbuminuric stage.

Mahomed proved that cases of “arteriocapillary fibrosis” were hypertensive, and showed that they may occur without renal involvement.

1893 CE

#4187

The examination of the female bladder and the catheterization of the ureters under direct inspection.

Kelly introduced aeroscopic examination of the bladder and catheterization of the ureters. See also Ann. Surg., 1898, 27, 475-86.

1927 CE–1928 CE

#4296

The experimental production of stone-in-the-bladder.

McCarrison’s experiments showed that urinary calculi could follow a diet probably deficient in vitamin A.

1909 CE

#1236.2

The fluids of the body.

Starling put forward the idea that renal excretion of salt (and water) was conditioned by the volume of body fluids, particularly the blood volume. He suggested that the sum total of body fluids was arranged so that t…