Skip to main content

A History of 'bladder' in Urology:

Thomas Hollier

1609 - 1690

Skilled lithotomist who operated on Samuel Pepys

William Cheselden

1688 - 1752

Protagonist of suprapubic stone removal

Sir Henry Thompson

1820 - 1904

Extraordinary polymath and expert urethral stone surgeon

Sir Francis Cruise

1834 - 1912

Performed the first successful endoscopic treatments

Roman Catheter

1st Century AD

Double curved for males

Silver Catheters

19th Century AD

For dilating urethral strictures

Sir Peter Freyer

1852 - 1921

Popularised litholapaxy & transvesical prostatectomy

Frank Kidd

1878 - 1934

Co-founder of the British Journal of Urology in 1929

Cuthbert Dukes

1890 - 1976

Known for his classification of cancer of the rectum

Arthur Jacobs

1899 - 1974

Widely recognised as "the father of urology in Glasgow"

Willie Mack

1908 - 1970

Expert in male infertility and renal tuberculosis

Roman Medicine

753BC - 554

Influenced by Europe & Asia

Celsian Method (Apparatus Minor)

Only two instruments needed

High Approach

1561 - 1723

Cheselden's forte

Cystoscopy

1807

From candlelight to xenon & laser light

Interstitial Cystitis

1836

Bladder pain syndrome

Transurethral Bladder Stone Treatment

936 - 1928

From Ammonius to present day lasers

All Saints' Hospital London

1911 - 1986

Founded by Edward Canny Ryall

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital

1771 - 2003

An early "stone" hospital

Freyer Evacuator

1880

Modification of Bigelow's extractor

Ellik Evacuator

1937

Still in use today

Edwin Beer

1876 - 1938

Pioneer in papillary bladder tumours

Interstitial Cystitis

1887 - 1997

First described by Skene

Popular Tags

Our most commonly used search tags are below:

America    army    association    BAUS    bladder    book    catheters    congress    cystoscope    Dublin    Edinburgh    endourology    France    Glasgow    Harrogate    hospital    instrument    Ireland    Joyce    lithotomy    lithotrite    Liverpool    London    Manchester    MICC    Millin    Morson    photography    procedure    prostate    Roman    RSM    Scotland    SEC    stones    Three P's    TURP    urethra    urinary    world war