A History of 'stones' in Urology:
1609 - 1690
Skilled lithotomist who operated on Samuel Pepys
1678 - 1747
Founder of the French Royal Academy of Surgery
1688 - 1752
Protagonist of suprapubic stone removal
1820 - 1904
Extraordinary polymath and expert urethral stone surgeon
1852 - 1921
Popularised litholapaxy & transvesical prostatectomy
1876 - 1944
Irish-born surgeon with lifelong interest in stones
3200BC
Bilharzia & stones
2800BC
Vedas & urethral strictures
1000BC
Hippocrates & his oath
753BC - 554
Influenced by Europe & Asia
Only two instruments needed
1520
Incontinence, fistula & impotence
1600
As used by Frère Jacques
1941 - 1981
Re-discovered in the 1970s
1771 - 2003
An early "stone" hospital
1880
Modification of Bigelow's extractor
For dilating the perineal wound