Only two instruments needed
Blind surgery for bladder stones
For opening a perineal wound
For dilating the perineal wound
Graduated dilators for strictures
Lollipop handles & olive tips
Aggressive stricture treatment
From Neolithic to modern times
From Duchamp to present times
... but probably should have been
60000BC - 3200BC
Magic, spirits & herbs
4000BC - 1531BC
A history on cuneiforms
3200BC
Bilharzia & stones
2800BC
Vedas & urethral strictures
2100BC - 100BC
Re-balancing yin and yang
1800BC - 900
Religion, ritual & science
1000BC
Hippocrates & his oath
753BC - 554
Influenced by Europe & Asia
600BC - 1258
Major work in ophthalmology
260BC - 100
Hebrew medicine & the Bible
100BC - 44BC
Roman general, statesman, Consul and author
1st Century AD
Double curved for males
476 - 1060
Still poorly understood
500 - 1500
Galen and the four "humors"
900 - 1800
Taoist & Confucian ideals
930 - 1880
The first renal stone surgery
936 - 1928
From Ammonius to present day lasers
1348 - 1350
Killed 6 out of 10 Londoners
1520
Incontinence, fistula & impotence
1533 - 1603
The Virgin Queen
1561 - 1723
Cheselden's forte
1600 - 1699
Harvey to van Leeuwenhoek
1600
As used by Frère Jacques
1609 - 1690
Skilled lithotomist who operated on Samuel Pepys
1651 - 1714
The stonecutter Frère Jacques
1678 - 1747
Founder of the French Royal Academy of Surgery
1688 - 1752
Protagonist of suprapubic stone removal
1692 - 1774
18th Century quack or medical pioneer?
1700 - 1799
John Hunter & new hospitals
1722 - 1789
The first comparative anatomist
1723 - 1733
Professor of Physic in Dublin
1726 - 1789
Used quinine to treat malaria
1771 - 2003
An early "stone" hospital
1793 - 1844
Hit it with a hammer ...
19th Century AD
For dilating urethral strictures
19th Century AD
One of his many instruments
19th Century AD
Suprapubic drainage device
1800 - 1899
"The age of agony"
1802 - 1871
"The Best Stone Surgeon in the North of Scotland"
1807
From candlelight to xenon & laser light
1811 - 1870
Belgian by birth but worked in Holland and France
1820 - 1904
Extraordinary polymath and expert urethral stone surgeon
1830 - 1975
From Guthrie to HoLEP
1831 - 1920
All the urologists of the world were his pupils
1834 - 1912
Performed the first successful endoscopic treatments
1836
Bladder pain syndrome
1837 - 1908
Expert in Bigelow's litholapaxy operation
1839
Pioneer of barotrauma research
1846 - 1890
Performed UK's first retropubic prostatectomy
1850 - 1945
A link between Victorian & modern urology
1852 - 1921
Popularised litholapaxy & transvesical prostatectomy
1853 - 1939
Well known for his writings on rectal and urinary surgery
1853 - 1924
The first to use an electric light bulb to illuminate the human bladder
1855
Cuts strictures forward
1856 - 1944
One of the earliest adopters of the cystoscope
1859 - 1934
Founder of All Saints Hospital
1860 - 1912
Cuban-born and nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1912
1860 - 1992
Helped by an anonymous donation
1865
First successful endoscopic treatments
1865 - 2009
From Cruise to the present
1868 - 2000
The first kidneys were removed by mistake
1869
Invented by a French Cardiologist
1869
"A safe and practical method .... of tapping the bladder"
1870 - 1945
Radical prostatectomist & "father of American urology"
1871 - 1937
First urologist to perform retrograde ureterography
1876 - 1944
Irish-born surgeon with lifelong interest in stones
1876 - 1938
Pioneer in papillary bladder tumours
1878 - 1934
Co-founder of the British Journal of Urology in 1929
1878
Used for Litholapaxy
1880
Modification of Bigelow's extractor
1881 - 1975
Pioneered radiotherapy for cancer of the urinary tract
1882 - 1960
First to describe occupational bladder cancer in the UK
1882 - 1965
First female BAUS member
1884 - 1956
Identified Barrington's nucleus
1885 - 1961
An expert in urethral strictures
1886 - 1971
Highly-decorated soldier and first President of BAUS
1886 - 1904
Urologist & polymath
1886
The first urology association
1887 - 1920
First performed by McGill
1887 - 1997
First described by Skene
1889 - 1960
Adviser on the development of the NHS
1889 - 1962
Co-founder of the British Journal of Urology
1890 - 1976
Known for his classification of cancer of the rectum
1890
Used by "feel" alone
1890 - 1909
Still used in urological surgery
1894
Congress held in Rome
1895 - 1985
A founder member of BAUS
1896 - 1973
A founder member and, later, President of BAUS
1897 - 1987
Described a popular new cystoscope and attachments
1898 - 1992
Initially in Red Lion Square
1899 - 1974
Widely recognised as "the father of urology in Glasgow"
1899
Treatment of strictures
1900 - 1999
The emergence of the speciality
1901 - 1988
An original, founder member of the Council of BAUS
1902 - 1973
Surgeon to the French Resistance
1903 - 1980
Expert in retropubic prostatectomy & TURP
1903 - 1966
Early advocate of the prostatic punch
1904 - 1945
Popularised by Hugh Hampton Young
1904
Designed at the Mayo Clinic
1905
Chronic periaortitis; Ormond's disease
1906 - 1926
Cancer surgeon & urologist
1906 - 1975
Radiotherapy pioneer
1907
Brainchild of Felix Guyon
1907
Single sheath; multiple instruments
1908 - 1970
Expert in male infertility and renal tuberculosis
1909
16th Congress, held in Budapest
1910 - 1934
Founder of the GU Dept at The London Hospital
1911 - 1980
VRD, MCh, FRCS
1911 - 1986
Founded by Edward Canny Ryall
1912 - 1945
First President of BAUS
1915 - 1945
Awarded the Military Cross for bravery
1916
60,000 lost on the first day
1917 - 1921
Lithotomist & prostatectomist
1918
Leicester Urologist who won the VC
1919 - 2013
BAUS President
1919
Designed by Hugh Hampton Young
1919
Won the 1913 Grand Prix & Gold Medal
1919 - 2013
MD, MChir, FRCS
1919 - 2013
Obituary by Chris Woodhouse, Emeritus Professor in Adolescent Urology
1920 - 1992
Institution for venereal disease
1920
Urology Section formed in 1920
1925 - 2020
CBE, DSc, DM, MCh, FRCP, FRCS, FACS, FRACS Hon
1925 - 2020
Obituary by Chris Chapple & Jonathan Goddard
1926 - 1934
Britain's first endourologist
1927 - 2011
MA, DM, FRCS, FACS
1927 - 2020
Obituary by Prof Christopher Chapple
1928 - 2024
Obituary by Adrian Joyce, Emeritus Consultant Urologist, Leeds
1929 - 2017
A "godfather" of robotic surgery
1930 - 1980
Based on the Stern-Davies-McCarthy model
1932
Rack-and-pinion mechanism
1932 - 2005
Reed Nesbit & John Blandy
1933
French Urologist with an interest in testicular cancer
1938 - 2012
MD, ChM, FRCS
1938
First "modern" resectoscope
1938 - 2012
Obituary by Justin Vale, Consultant Urological Surgeon
1939 - 1945
Hitler invades Poland
1939 - 1945
Hitler dies and Japan surrenders
1940
Innovative angled viewing
1940 - 1945
A later model of an 1899 invention
1941 - 1981
Re-discovered in the 1970s
1942 - 2021
Obituary by Derek Fawcett, past-President of BAUS
1945 - 1990
Cuba, Vietnam, Hungary & the Berlin Wall
1945 - 1989
The career of Terence Millin
1945 - 1971
First President of BAUS
1946 - 1975
Radiotherapy pioneer
1947 - 1960
Described occupational bladder cancer
1947
A gift from the AAGS
1947
Dedicated to Willie Mack
1948 - 2015
Teaching Hospital urologists
1948
With scissor handles
1948 - 1984
Key publications
1949 - 1960
Astute medical politician
1949
A gift from Sir Eric Riches
1949
8th Congress in Barcelona
1949 - 2014
Obituary by Mark Speakman, Consultant Urological Surgeon & Past-President of BAUS
1950 - 1977
Originally introduced by Young in the USA
1951 - 1987
Designer of an integrated cystoscope
1952
9th Congress in New York
1952 - 2021
Notification by colleagues at Basildon Hospital
1952 - 2023
Obituary by Stephen Mitchell, Consultant Urological Surgeon
1953 - 2013
Elected President for 2012-14, Unable to accede due to ill health
1953 - 1980
Expert in retropubic prostatectomy
1953 - 2013
Obituary by Adrian Joyce, Consultant Urological Surgeon & Past-President of BAUS
1954 - 2015
Obituary by Stuart Lloyd, Consultant Urological Surgeon
1955
The first standardised cystoscope
1955 - 1973
Founder member of BAUS
1955 - 1961
Presented to Clifford Morson
1957
First standardised telescope
1957 - 1974
Father of urology in Glasgow
1957 - 2023
Obituary by Steve Payne
1958
11th Congress in Stockholm
1958 - 2022
Obituary by Suzie Venn & Peter Thomas
1959 - 2021
A notification from the BAUS Office
1960 - 2016
First proposed by Einstein in 1917
1961 - 1963
CBE, ChM, FRCS
1961 - 2018
Obituary by his colleagues at Freeman Hospital
1962
Awarded by the New York Academy of Medicine
1962 - 2021
Comments from the funeral Order of Service
1965 - 1967
CBE, MCh, FRCS
1967 - 2020
Obituary by Ms Jhumur Pati, Consultant Urological Surgeon
1967 - 1992
Home of the Institute of Urology
1970
Hopkins rod lens system
1970 - 1979
Chaucer's Physician
1972 - 1974
MD, FRCS, FACS
1972
The "Bible" for history
1973
Labour of love by John Herman
1977 - 2022
Leicester General Hospital
1978 - 1980
TD, MS, FRCS, FRCSEd
1986 - 1988
ChM, FRCS, FRCSEd
1986
A gift from the President of the CAU
1990 - 1992
MD, ChM, FRCSEd, FRCS
1990 - 2011
Pioneering functional & reconstructive urologist
1994
Devised by the York Herald
1994
The EAU's History Journal
1995
Issued at the 1995 meeting
1995
The 25th Annual Meeting in Gdansk
1997
A great resource on historical instruments
1998 - 2000
FRCSEd, FRCSGlas
1999 - 2019
By Cathy Corbishley
2000 - 2002
MCh, FRCSI, FRCSGlas, FRCS, FC Urol SA
2004 - 2006
MD, FRCS, FEBU
2006 - 2008
MS, FRCP, FRCS
2009 - 2019
by Duncan Summerton
2010
From the EAU History Section
2010 - 2019
By Malcolm Lucas
2011 - 2023
Articles on the history of urology
2013
From the Junior Curator
2014 - 2016
MB BS MS FRCS
2014
By The Junior Curator
2015
Under the museum stairs
2016 - 2018
MB BCh FRCSI FRCS Urol
2016
Surgical stories from around the world
2018 - 2020
BSc MB ChB FRCSEng FRCSEd FRCS Urol
2018
10,000 people at the Cenotaph
2018
from Mary Garthwaite, Curator and former Consultant Urological Surgeon (March 2022)
2019
Please read carefully before making any submission
2019
Instructions on preparing & submitting digital images
2020 - 2022
BM BCh MA DM FRCS Urol
2022 - 2024
MB BS BMedSci PhD FRCS Urol
2023
Celebrating an anniversary
2024 - 2026
BMedSci BM BS FRCS Urol