Entry Nos. 4100–4199

1928

#4155

Geschichte der Dermatologie, geographische Verteilung der hautkrankheiten Nomenklatur. (Handbuch der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten, Bd. 14, 2. T.)

1933

#4156

The history of dermatology.

Reprinted, New York, 1976.

1953

#4158

Classics in clinical dermatology. With biographical sketches.

Contains 143 classic descriptions of cutaneous diseases by 93 writers. Many portraits are also included.

1551

#4159

Methodus cognoscendi, extirpandique excrescentes in vesicae collo carunculas.

In the above work, Laguna, the "Spanish Galen," described a method of excising vesical caruncles for the first time. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1588

#4160

Tratado de todas las enfermedades de los riñones, vexiga, y carnosidades de la verga, y urina.

First treatise on diseases of the urinary tract. Also describes the high operation for stone. Diaz is sometimes called the “Father of Urology”.

1673

#4161

Exercitationes medicae practicae circa medendi methodum.

This work contains the first clear description of proteinuria, noting precipitation of urine with heat or acetic acid. Albuminuria was first described by Dekkers (Chapter V). A translation of this chapter is in Major,…

1683

#4162

De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis, et pectoris.

Bellini began to develop his hydraulic iatromechanics in this work, in which he considered the blood as a physical fluid with simple mechanical and mathematicizable properties. He realized the value of the urine as an…

1743

#4163

Mémoire sur quelques obstacles qui s’opposent à l’éjaculation naturelle de la semence.

“Peyronie’s disease”, a noncancerous condition resulting from fibrous scar tissue that develops on the penis and causes curved, and sometimes painful erections.

1762

#4164

Practical remarks on the hydrocele or watry rupture.

Classic description of hydrocele.

1830

#4166

Observations on the structure and diseases of the testis.

1834

#4167

On the anatomy and diseases of the neck of the bladder, and of the urethra.

Guthrie was the first to describe non-prostatic obstruction at the neck of the bladder. On p. 252 of the above work is an account of Guthrie’s prostatic catheter for use in trans-urethral prostatectomy.

1845

#4168

Mémoire sur un moyen très simple et très sur de pratiquer le cathétérisme dans les cas même les plus difficiles.

Maisonneuve introduced a hair catheter.

1851

#4169

Cystitis; lateral operation on the bladder, death; tuberculous kidney.

First cystotomy for inflammation and rupture of the bladder.

1859

#4170

Plastic operation for exstrophy of the bladder in the male; reported by S. D. Gross.

Pancoast performed the first successful operation for exstrophy of the bladder (ectopia vesicae).

1865

#4171

On intermittent haematuria; with remarks upon its pathology and treatment.

Harley’s classic description of paroxysmal hemoglobinuria, “Harley’s disease”.

1865

#4172

De l’endoscope et de ses applications au diagnostic et au traitement des affections de l’urèthre et de la vessie.

Desormeaux was a pioneer of endoscopy. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1868

#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…

1875

#4174

Exstirpation eines Harnblasenmyoms nach vorausgehendem tiefen und hohen Blasenschnitt. Heilung.

First abdominal resection of a tumor of the bladder. The operation was performed by Billroth.

1879

#4175

Eine neue Beobachtungs- und Untersuchungsmethode für Harnröhre, Harnblase und Rectum.

Nitze devised an electrically lighted cystoscope in 1877, which made possible great improvements in the surgery of the bladder.

1881

#4176

Ueber eine neue Form von Haemoglobinurie beim Menschen.

First description of “march hemoglobinuria” – the condition in which physical exertion gives rise to the passage of red urine containing hemoglobin in solution.

1881

#4177

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des voies urinaires.

Guyon was the outstanding French urologist of his day, an operator of great skill and a brilliant lithotomist.

1882

#4178

Die Albuminurie im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

1884

#4179

The hydrochlorate of cocaine in genito-urinary procedures.

Local anesthesia first employed in urology.

1884

#4180

On tumours of the bladder.

Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.

1885

#4181

On cyclic albuminuria (albuminuria in the apparently healthy).

“Pavy’s disease” – recurrent albuminuria.

1886

#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.

1888

#4183

Leçons cliniques sur les affections chirurgicales de la vessie et de la prostate.

Guyon was Professor of genitourinary surgery at Paris, and a great teacher (see also No. 4177).

1889

#4184

Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.

Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.

1891

#4185

Les tumeurs de la vessie.

Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.

1893

#4186

The surgery of the ureters. A clinical, literary, and experimental research.

Uretero-ureterostomy. Van Hook originated modern methods of ureteral repair.

1893

#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.

1894

#4188

Uretero-ureteral anastomosis; uretero-ureterostomy.

Kelly’s method of uretero-ureteral anastomosis included the use of the catheter as a temporary ureteral splint.

1895

#4189

Vessie et urètre surnuméraires.

Péan was first to operate on diverticula of the bladder.

1897

#4190

Eine neue Modifikation des Harnleiterkatheters.

With Nitze’s operative cystoscope it became possible to excise bladder tumors in situ.

1899

#4191

Operation for undescended testicle and congenital inguinal hernia.

Bevan’s operation for undescended testicle.

1905

#4192

Die Gestalt der menschlichen Harnblase im Röntgenbilde.

First cystograms.

1906

#4194

The operative treatment of acute gonorrheal epididymitis.

Hagner devised the open operation for the relief of acute epididymitis.

1909

#4195

Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires.

Albarran, a Cuban, became a teacher of the highest rank and attained a professorship at Paris in 1892. He was the first surgeon in France to perform perineal prostatectomy.

1909

#4196

The technique of orcheopexy.

Torek’s operation for undescended testicle.

1912

#4197

Ueber Leitungsanästhesie bei Nierenoperationen und Thorakoplastiken überhaupt bei Operationen am Rumpf.

Paravertebral anesthesia in urology.

1920

#4198

X-ray studies of the seminal vesicles and vasa deferentia after urethroscopic injection of the ejaculatory ducts with thorium – a new diagnostic method.

Vesiculography first demonstrated.

1923

#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.