Modern Urology

Hugh Hampton Young-father of modern American urology.

Journal of Investigative Surgery Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713723105 Hugh Hampton Young Father of Modern American Urology Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra ab a Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Borgess Research Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA b Department of Surger...

The importance of the malleable implant salvage technique (MIST) in modern prosthetic urology

Avicenna's Canon of Medicine and modern urology. Part IV: Normal voiding, dysuria, and oliguria.

Avicenna, the Iranian scientist, describes the mechanisms of normal voiding in his famous book, the Canon of Medicine. Then, he enumerates urinary symptoms. In this article, his discussion on dysuria, its causes, and its pathophysiology is compared with these concepts in modern urology. Avicenna points to some etiologic theories of interstitial cystitis and chronic prostatitis. In the Canon, we...

Urology in History

Studying the Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, provides noteworthy information on the subjects related to urology. Some examples of these amazing items have been confirmed by the modern urology: explaining the 2-stage function of the bladder (filling and emptying stages); indirect pointing to a scientific law, named later as the Laplace’s law, which is applicable to bladder physiology and explains ...

Avicenna's Canon of Medicine and Modern Urology. Part III: other bladder diseases.

In the third part of this article on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, diseases of the bladder other than bladder calculus are reviewed. Avicenna covers topic on bladder infection, pelvic abscess, urethritis, cystitis, prostatitis, bladder tumors, bladder dysfunction, urinary retention, and neurogenic bladder. The interesting point is that 10 centuries ago, Avicenna had described almost all disease...