History of Urology archive for 2023

Illustration showing Thompson’s microphone sound, from Diseases of the Urinary Organs.

Wax candles, horsewhips and sounding a note

2 November 2023 | | URO - Technology

In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). There are certain instruments we use in urology which carry unusual names; you...

Image showing cystoscopic photograph of a filiform bougie ‘lost’ in the bladder.

Things in a place they should not be!

12 September 2023 | | URO - Technology

In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). I think we all have stories of objects inserted into the urethra and...

Photo of Tombstone (USA), photograph by the Tombstone photographer Camillus Fry, around 1881.

Prostates at the OK Corral

11 July 2023 | | URO - Technology

In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In this article, we are looking at an American urologist whose story was,...

Photo showing a little ball of thread – glomerulus.

Urological etymology

4 May 2023 | | URO - Technology

In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). I’ve always found the derivation of names fascinating. Anatomy lessons were made so...

FRCS – the long way round

13 March 2023 | | URO - Technology

In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). This month I am joined by my friend and fellow member of the...