Facets

1839 CE

#4259

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.

1880 CE–1881 CE

#4292.1

A case of nephro-lithotomy; or the extraction of a calculus from an undilated kidney.

Nephrolithotomy; removal of a renal calculus by a lumbar incision.

1901 CE

#4264

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.…

1894 CE–1896 CE

#2232

A collection of the published writings. 2 vols.

Gull, one of the best clinicians of his time, spent most of his working life at Guy’s Hospital. He described the spinal lesion of tabes and left an important account of aneurysm. His best works are his descripti…

1710 CE

#4280

A compleat treatise of the stone and gravel.

Groenveldt was a famous lithotomist, using the suprapubic technique. He also enjoyed a rather unsavoury reputation as a quack for his determination to promote the use of cantharides. He changed his name to Greenfield …

1940 CE

#2724.2

A crystalline pressor substance (angiotonin) resulting from the reaction between renin and renin-activator.

Isolation of angiotonin (angiotensin).

1924 CE

#1238

A description of the glomerular circulation in the frog’s kidney and observations concerning the action of adrenalin and various other substances upon it.

Richards made many experiments concerning the secretion of urine. Among other things he collected and analysed the fluid from a single glomerulus; his work confirmed the theories of Ludwig and Cushny.

1730 CE

#1217

A description of the peritonaeum, and of that part of the membrane cellularis which lies on its outside. With an account of the true situation of all the abdominal viscera, in respect of these two membranes.

Douglas described the peritoneum in detail; his name is perpetuated in the “pouch”, “line”, and “fold of Douglas”. He was a friend of John Hunter and brother of John Douglas, the li…

1970 CE

#4297.1

A history of bladder stone.

1819 CE

#4288

A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis; with observations on the advantages attending it; and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time.

Carpue popularized suprapubic lithotomy, a procedure not often previously carried out.

2002 CE

#9858

A history of the treatment of renal failure by dialysis.

1934 CE

#1244

A method for explantation of the kidney.

1906 CE

#4267

A method of controlling the bleeding after suprapubic prostatectomy.

The distensible bag for controlling hemorrhage after suprapubic prostatectomy was introduced by Briggs in 1905.

1909 CE

#4195.1

A new direct irrigating observation and double catheterizing cystoscope.

Brown–Buerger cystoscope.

1919 CE

#1908

A new germicide for use in the genito-urinary tract; “mercurochrome-220”.

Introduction of mercurochrome. With E. C. White and E. O. Swartz.

1922 CE

#4272

A new method of perineal prostatectomy which insures more perfect functional results.

Geraghty’s modification of Young’s perineal prostatectomy.

1937 CE

#4250.1

A new plastic operation for stricture at the uretero-pelvic junction: report of 20 operations.

Foley’s operation for hydronephrosis.

1913 CE

#4270

A new procedure (punch operation) for small prostatic bars and contracture of the prostatic orifice.

Young’s punch prostatectomy operation.

1923 CE

#4198.1

A new type of observation and operating cysto-urethroscope.

McCarthy foroblique pan-endoscope.

1940 CE

#4251

A practical method for the measurement of glomerular filtration rate (inulin clearance) with an evaluation of the clinical significance of this determination.

Inulin clearance test.

1748 CE

#4284

A remarkable case of a person cut for the stone in the new way, commonly called the lateral, by William Cheselden, Surgeon to Her late Majesty; communicated to Martin Folkes, Pr. R. S

Cheselden’s lateral lithotomy first described in this brief paper by Alexander Reid. Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link.

1723 CE

#4282

A treatise on the high operation for the stone.

Cheselden was surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital and an outstanding figure in British surgery in the first half of the 18th century. The above work describes his method of performing suprapubic lithotomy, a method…

1786 CE

#2377

A treatise on the venereal disease.

In Hunter's day venereal diseases were thought to be due to a single poison. To test this theory Hunter experimented with matter taken from a gonorrhoeal patient who, unknown to Hunter, also had syphilis. Hunter maint…

1894 CE

#4226

A vizelet fagypontjának diagnostikus érteke. [The diagnostic value of the freezing point of urine.]

Korányi established cryoscopy of the urine as a kidney function test. See also his later papers in Z. klin. Med., 1897, 33, 1-54; 1898, 34, 1-52. Previously H. Dreser had made experiments on this subject; for t…

1691 CE

#1213

Adenographia curiosa et uteri foeminei anatome nova.

Description of the “canal of Nuck”.

1699 CE

#1214

An account of two new glands and their excretory ducts, lately discovered in human bodies.

Cowper’s description of the glands which bear his name. He was forestalled in their discovery by Jean Méry.

1935 CE

#858.1

An apparatus for the culture of whole organs.

In 1931, the year before his son’s sensational kidnapping, the celebrity aviator began working with Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute on a perfusion pump which would allow the cultivation of whole organ…

1910 CE

#4236

An experimental and clinical study of the functional activity of the kidneys by means of phenolsulphonephthalein.

The phenolsulphonephthalein kidney-function test.

1924 CE

#4244

An unexplained diazo-colour-reaction in uraemic sera.

Diazo-color test of renal function.

1796 CE

#7723

Anatomisches museum. Gesammelt von Johann Gottlieb Walter. Beschrieben von Friedrich August Walter. 2 vols.

Includes fine hand-colored plates of kidney stones and gall stones. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1927 CE

#4203.9

Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON

The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.

1939 CE

#4250.2

Architecture of the kidney in chronic Bright’s disease.

A description of the morphological changes in the nephrons of diseased kidneys. Hypertrophic, atrophic and aglomerular units are described.

1841 CE

#1219

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Geschlechtsverhältnisse und der Samenflüssigkeit wirbelloser Thiere.

1843 CE

#1232

Beiträge zur Lehre vom Mechanismus der Harnsecretion.

Ludwig wrote a classic monograph on renal secretion. He theorized that urine formation could be explained purely in terms of the laws of physics and chemistry, and that under the hydrostatic pressure of the blood in t…

1945 CE

#4276.1

Bilateral adrenalectomy in prostatic cancer; clinical features and urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen.

Adrenalectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.

1565 CE

#11489

Calculorum qui in corpore ac membris hominum innascuntur, genera XII. depicta descriptaque, cum historiis singulorum admirandis.

The first treatise to specifically on urinary calculi and gallstones, with each of the 12 chapters exploring a part of the human body where such stones are found (gall bladder, kidneys, bladder, etc.). Additionally, t…

1896 CE

#3636

Calculs du rein. Calculs de la vésicule biliaire.

Chappuis and Chauvel were the first to study biliary concretions by means of Roentgen rays.

1960 CE

#4257.2

Cannulation of blood vessels for prolonged hemodialysis.

Scribner, Quinton, and Dillard made repeated dialysis possible by their development of indwelling Teflon–Silastic arteriovenous shunts. These became known as Scribner Shunts.

1861 CE

#4210

Case of encephaloid disease of the kidney; removal, etc.

Erastus Bradley Wolcott (1804-1880) was first to excise the kidney (for renal tumor). The preoperative diagnosis had been tumor of the liver. Only after the operation did the surgeons realize that they had removed the…

1836 CE

#4207

Cases and observations, illustrative of renal disease accompanied with the secretion of albuminous urine.

As a result of greater experience on renal disease, Bright rounded off his work on the subject with the above paper, wherein he recorded his extended observations; by this time he had come to more definite conclusions…

1817 CE

#4258

Cases of Fungus haematodes, with observations.

Prostatic carcinoma first reported (p. 279).

1893 CE

#4185.1

Catheterization of the male ureters. A preliminary report.

First catheterization of male ureters.

1775 CE

#2122

Chirurgical observations relative to the cataract, the polypus of the nose, the cancer of the scrotum, etc.

Includes the first description of occupational cancer. By describing chimney sweeps” cancer of the scrotum, Pott was the first to trace the origin of a type of cancer to a specific external cause. The above work…

1871 CE–1876 CE

#4214

Chirurgie der Nieren. Teil 1-2.

Simon was Professor of Surgery at Rostock and Heidelberg. The work was projected as 3 vols., but Simon died before it was completed.

1899 CE

#4228

Chronic nephritis affecting a movable kidney as an indication for nephropexy.

First operation on the kidneys for the relief of Bright’s disease.

1888 CE

#4221

Chronic pyelitis, successfully treated by kolpo-uretero-cystotomy.

Bozeman treated vesical and fecal fistulae in women, dealing with the complication of pyelitis by catheterization of the ureter through a vesicovaginal opening.

1868 CE

#4173

Clinical lectures on diseases of the urinary organs.

Thompson was Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College, London, and an eminent genito-urinary surgeon. He performed the operation of lithotrity upon Leopold I and Napoleon III; he also developed the two-glas…

1521 CE

#367

Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia Mundini una cum textu ejusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto.

Giacomo Berengario da Carpi (Jacobus Berengarius Carpensis, Jacopo Barigazzi, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi or simply Carpus) introduced iconography and independent anatomical observation into the teaching of anatomy. H…

1967 CE

#10006

Composition of tubular fluid in the macula densa segment as a factor regulating the function of the juxtaglomerular apparatus.

"This demonstration of 'tubulo-glomerular feedback' therefore provided mechanistic insights into one of the fundamental homeostatic functions of the kidney—the ability to conserve salt and water. Adjusting filte…

1903 CE

#4265

Conservative perineal prostatectomy.

Young’s operation of perineal prostatectomy.