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11 entries match Urology & Nephrology [C13] · Instruments & Devices [E07]
1564
#3668.1
Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.
Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in amputations, one of h…
1827
#4165.1
Un moyen d’éclairer l’urètre et la vessie de manière à voir dans l’intérieur de ces organes.
Urethro-cystic speculum (endoscope).
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.
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.
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.
1889
#4184
Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.
Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.
1923
#4198.1
A new type of observation and operating cysto-urethroscope.
McCarthy foroblique pan-endoscope.
1926
#4273
Minor surgery of the prostate gland; a new cystoscopic instrument employing a cutting current capable of operation in a water medium.
Stern’s resectoscope.
1935
#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 organs in v…
1944
#4255
The artificial kidney: Dialyser with great area.
The Kolff artificial kidney. With H. T. J. Berk and others. Kolff first published his discovery in a neutral country (Sweden) since in 1944 Holland was occupied by the Germans. See also No. 1976.
1956
#4257.1
Further developments of a coil kidney. Disposable artificial kidney.
Disposable twin coil kidney.