De Historia Urologiae Europaeae
From the first edition, presented at the 11th EAU Congress in Berlin, Germany in 1994, the EAU's History Office has produced an annual volume of research into the origins of urology. Over the years, this body of work has grown to cover a wide range of historical and cultural facets of the field. Now, for the first time, every volume is collected and freely available on Uroweb. Browse the editions below and read them as originally published over the past thirty years.
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Volume 1 (1994)








Vol. 1 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - The History of The European Association of Urology
Willy Gregoir - The History of Venereal Disease
Johan Mattelaer - On the Excision of Stones both Above and Below the Pubic Bone
Johan Herman Francken, translated by M.A. Van Andel - The Structure of the Kidney From Aristotle to Malpighi
Sergio Musitelli, H. Jallous, T. De Bastiani, A. Speroni, P. Marandola - The Structure and the Function of the Testicles from Aristotle to the “Textis Examinatus” of Claudius Aubry (1658)
Sergio Musitelli, H. Jallous, T. De Bastiani, A. Speroni, P. Marandola - The History of Exstrophy of the Bladder: The Dutch Contribution
Jos De Vries and Jan Van Gool - The First Case of Spina Bifida
Jan Van Gool and Jos De Vries
Volume 2 (1995)










Vol. 2 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in the British Isles
John Blandy - The History of Urology in Russia
Leonid Gorilovsky - The History of Urology in Austria
Horst Haschek - The History of Urology in Italy
Sergio Musitelli, M. Pavone Macaluso, P. Marandola, M. Lamartina, H. Jallous, G.B. Ingargiola, A. Speroni - Highlights of the History of Urology in Flanders and Belgium
Johan Mattelaer, Willy Gregoir, A. Similon, Jean De Leval - Highlights of the History of Urology in Poland
Ludwik Jerzy Mazurek - Urological Knowledge in Renaissance Spain
Remigio Vela Navarrete - Highlights of the History of Urology in Sweden
Eric Lindstedt - A Short History of Urology in Hungary
Peter Magasi
Volume 3 (1996)










Vol. 3 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in France
Alain Jardin - Highlights from the History of Greek Urology (From the late Bronze to the post-Byzantine period)
S.G. Marketos, A.A. Diamandopoulos, E. Poulakou-Rebelakou and C. Dimopoulos - The History of Urology in the Netherlands
Jos de Vries - Highlights of the History of Urology in Croatia
D. Derezic and Z. Marekovic - The History of Urology in Finland
K.J. Oravisto - The History of Urology in Romania
E. Proca - An Introduction to Methodological Problems in the History of Urology
Sergio Musitelli, Hussein Jallous and Paolo Marandola - Outline of a Critical Survey of Urological Historiography
Paolo Marandola, Sergio Musitelli, Hussein Jallous - Catheters and Sounds: The History of Bladder Catheterisation
Johan Mattelaer
Volume 4 (1997)













Vol. 4 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Bulgarian Urology
Todor Patrashkov and Christo Kumanov - The History of Urology in Portugal
Fernando Calais da Silva and Arménio Pinto de Carvalho - The Development of Urology in Denmark
Valdemar Hvidt and Laurits Lauridsen - The History of Urology in Norway
Brynjulf Otnes - The History of Urology in Serbia and Montenegro
Jovan Nikolic and Dusanka Konjevic - The Modern History of Urology in Greece (From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Until the Mid-Twentieth Century
S.G. Marketos, E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, A. Rebelakos and C. Dimopoulos - The History of Urology in Switzerland
D. Hauri - The History of the EORTC Urological Group
M. Pavone-Macaluso and P.H. Smith - Urolithiasis in Non-Medical Byzantine Texts
J. Lascaratos, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, A. Rebelakos - The Early Surgical History of Bladder Cancer
Francis I. Chinegwundoh - Restoration of the Prepuce – A Historical Review
Dirk Schultheiss, Michael C. Truss, Christian G. Stief, Udo Jonas - Errata – Corrections to Volumes I-III
Sergio Musitelli
Volume 5 (1998)












Vol. 5 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The Modern History of Urology in Spain since the Renaissance
Emilio Maganto Pavón and Remigio Vela Navarrete - Highlights in the History of Urology in Germany
Peter Rathert, Friedrich Moll and Dirk Schultheiss - The History of Urology in Albania
Flamur Tartari - A Brief History of Urology in Slovakia
Vladimir Zvara, Jan Breza and Michal Horňák - The History of Urology in Malta
Paul Cassar - Pharmacological Treatment of Urological Diseases in the Roman Empire
Sergio Musitelli, Hussein Jallous and Paolo Marandola - The History of the Urodynamics of the Lower Urinary Tract
Johan Mattelaer - Circumcision, a Symbolic Act? A History and Attempted Interpretation
M. Libert - Lithotomy: One of the most macabre chapters in the history of urology
J. De Moerloose - Tableau De L’operation de la Taille by Marin Marais (1725)
S. Evers - Urologic References in the Homeric Epics
E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, A.G. Rebelakos and S.G. Marketos
Volume 6 (1999)











Vol. 6 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Uroscopy
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in Georgia
L.G. Managadze, G.A Gzirishvili, T.I. Shioshvili, Z.M. Chanturaia - The History of Urology in Turkey
Vural Solok and Mete Çek - A Brief History of Urology in Leningrad
Leonid Gorilovski - The Development of Urology in Lithuania
K.K. Jocius, H. Ramonas and J. Mickevicius - The History of Urolithiasis and Endoscopy in Albania
Flamur Tartari - Urology and Urine in Bernardino Ramazzini
Paolo Marandola, Sergio Musitelli and Hussein Jallous - Androgen Therapy and Rejuvination in the Early 20th Century
Dirk Schultheiss, Johan Denil and Udo Jonas - Tribute to one of the Pioneers of Greek Urological Historiography: Dr. Spyros Naoumidis (1907-1998)
S.G. Marketos, E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, A. Rebelakos and C. Dimopoulos - Letter to the Editor: Concerning the Article “Restoration of the Prepuce: A Historical Review”
F. Sorrentino and M. Sorrentino
Volume 7 (2000)











Vol. 7 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in The Ukraine (First page missing due to printing error)
S.P. Pasechnikov - Curative Attempts in Illnesses of the Urinary Organs in Medieval Iceland
Charlotte Kaiser - Fifty Years of Inter-Scandinavian Urological Collaboration: A Retrospective View
Åke Fritjofsson - Lithotomy in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Peter P. Figdor - Endoscopic Lithotripsy of Urinary Bladder Calculi
Matthias A. Reuter - The History of Trocars
Günther Seydl - Lithotripsy in America: Transfer of the Technique from Europe, 1824-1840
James M. Edmonson - Charles V: An Innovating Urology Patient
Remigio Vela Navarrete - Highlights in the History of the Operating Microscope
Johan Denil and Dirk Schultheiss - Robert Proust – An Eminent Doctor in the Shadow of his Famous Brother Marcel
Reiner Speck
Volume 8 (2001)











Vol. 8 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - Urology in Estonia: Past and Present
Gennadi Timberg, Harry Tihane, Heiki Kask, Eldor Mihkelsoo - The History of Urology in the Republic of Macedonia
Stravidis Aleksander - Europe’s Influence on American Urology in the 19th Century
Rainer Engel - Vienna: A Treasury of the History of Medicine and Urology
Johan Mattelaer - The Historic Interaction of Urology and Anaesthesia
Friedrich Moll, Axel Karenberg, Peter Rathert - Maldescensus Testis- The History of Operative Treatment
Knut Albrecht and Dirk Schultheiss - A Reinvestigation of the Significance of ‘Bombolzini’ in the History of Endoscopy (The Austrian and French Approach to Bombolzini)
Peter Paul Figdor - The History of Urinary Infections
Jaakko O. Elo - John Hunter (1728-1793): Founder of Scientific Urology and Pioneer in the Field of Urogenital Surgery
K. Skrepetis, N. Antoniou - Otto Kneise (1875-1953): A Pioneer of Modern Urology
Konert Jürgen
Volume 9 (2002)













Vol. 9 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in Bohemia – Prague
L. Jarolím - The History of Urology in Slovenia
Boris Sedmak and Bojan Tršinar - Europe’s Influence on the Development of South American Urology
Emilio Maganto Pavón - Modern Urologists: Where do you come from?
Paolo Marandola, Sergio Musitelli, D. Vitetta - Franz Von Paula Gruithuisen (1774-1852): His Contribution to the Development of Lithotripsy
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski, Anton Michael Zamann and Peter Rathert - Francesco Pajola (1742-1816): A Pioneer of Lithotomy
Peter Paul Figdor - The History of Renal Anatomo-Physiology
Sergio Musitelli and Johan J. Mattelaer - Leon Kryński: Eminent Urologist of the Late Nineteenth Century, Creator of Submucosal Transplantation of Ureters into the Sigmoid Colon
Roman Sosnowski, T. Chwaliński, T. Demkow, A. Śródka - A 10th Century Medical Deontologist, Ishaq Ibn Al-Ruhawi, and his Statement on Beverages
Sahin Aksoy and Ayhan Verit - Operative Urology and the Hippocratic Oath: «ΟΥ ΤΕΜΕΩ ∆Ε ΟΥ∆Ε ΜΗΝ ΛΙΘΙΩΝΤΑΣ ΕΚΧΩΡΗΣΩ ∆Ε ΕΡΓΑΤΗΣΙΝ ΑΝ∆ΡΑΣΙΝ ΠΡΗΞΙΟΣ ΤΗΣ∆Ε»
Panagiotis F. Kalafatis, Konstantinos B. Zougkas, Fotios J. Dimitriadis and Marinos P. Kalafatis - Comment on the Article “Operative Urology and the Hippocratic Oath”
Sergio Musitelli - Letter to the Editors from the Hellenic Urological Association about the use of the term “Republic of Macedonia” in Vol. 8
Volume 10 (2003)










Vol. 10 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in the Republic of Belarus
A. Strotsky - Urology in the Maria Hospital in Helsinki, Finland
Jaakko Elo, Martti Ala-Opas - The Peregrinations of the Lichtleiter
Johan J. Mattelaer, Manfred Skopec, Rainer Engel and Dirk Schultheiss - Women in European Urology
Mirja Ruutu, Johan J. Mattelaer and members of the EAU Historical Committee - Julius Bruck (1840-1902): His Contribution to the Development of Endoscopy
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski, Andreas Paul Zamann - Urological Techniques of Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu in the 15th Century Ottoman Period
Ayhan Verit, Sahin Aksoy, Hasan Kafali, Fatma Ferda Verit - Evolution of Vasography during the 20th Century
K. Skrepetis, N. Antoniou - Castration from Mesopotamia to the XVI Century
Sergio Musitelli and Erik Felderhof - The Proof of Paternity: The History of an Andrological-Forensic Challenge
Knut Albrecht and Dirk Schultheiss
Volume 11 (2004)











Volume 11 (2004)
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- Foreword
Frans Debruyne - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - The 50th Anniversary of the Finnish Urological Association
Jaakko Elo and Martti Ala-Opas - Ethical Principles and Practice in Paediatric Urological Operations in the Ottoman Empire
S.N. Cenk Buyukunal and Nil Sari - Hermaphrodism and its Surgical Treatment from Aristotle to the XV Century
Sergio Musitelli - Seminal Stains in Legal Medicine: A Historical Review of the Forensical Proof
Knut Albrecht and Dirk Schultheiss - The Urogenital Apparatus in Juan Valverde and Andreas Vesalius
Sergio Musitelli - William Cheselden (1688-1752): The Greatest Lithotomist
Sarah Wheatstone, Benjamin Challacombe and Prokar Dasgupta - Sir Henry Thompson, BT (1820-1904): Artist, Scientist, Motorist, Gourmet, Traveller, Novelist, Cremationist and Sub-specialist Urologist
Jonathan Goddard and D.E. Osborn - Nikolaj A. Bogoraz (1874-1952): Russian Pioneer of Phalloplasty and Penile Implant Surgery
Alexander I. Gabouev, Udo Jonas and Dirks Schultheiss - Professor Géza Illyés
Imre Romics, Zsolt Fazakas and György Nádas - Errata Corrige
Sergio Musitelli
Volume 12 (2005)














Vol. 12 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Pierre Teillac - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - The History of Urology in Latvia
Ivars Smiltens and Egils Vjaters - The Development of Urology in Szczecin: How Political Changes Influenced Medicine
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski and Elisabeth Maria Wojewski-Zajaczkowski - Czechoslovak-Swedish-Finnish Urological Symposia held between 1969 and 1988
Vladimir Zvara and Jaakko Elo - Establishment and Development of Modern Urology in Syria: French Influence and Syrian Initiative
Abdou Khair Chamssuddin - A Brief Survey of the History of Scientific Museums from the 15th to the 18th Century
Sergio Musitelli and Hussein Jallous - Paleoandrological Items of the Earliest Religious Architecture: 9-10th Millenium BC
Ayhan Verit, Cihat Kurkcuoglu, Fatma Ferda Verit, Hasan Kafali and Ercan Yeni - The Fertility Goddess Cybele and Andrology
Charis Asvestis, Argyris Siatelis, Dimitris Anagnostou, Petros Karouzakis, Eya Coralles and Agamemnon Tselikas - Chocolate and Impotence: An Historical View from Early Spanish Documents and Baroque Literature
Remigio Vela Navarrete - Male Genital Pathology in Legal Medicine: A Historical Review
Knut Albrecht and Dirk Schultheiss - Historical Remarks on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hydroceles
Friedrich H. Moll and Peter Rathert - The Lithoscope
Hans-Dieter Nöske and Ekkehard W. Hauck - Georg Kelling (1866-1945): The Man who Introduced Modern Laparoscopy into Medicine
Martin Hatzinger and Jasmin Katrin Badawi - Terence Millin: A Urological Pioneer
David M. Bouchier-Hayes
Volume 13 (2006)











Vol. 13 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Pierre Teillac - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - In Memoriam of Prof. Dr. Ludwik Jerzy Mazurek, MD, PHD: Outstanding Urologist, Academic Teacher and Scientist
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Urology in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Damir Aganovic and Izet Masic - A Magnificent Circumcision Carnival in the Early 18th Century Ottoman Period
Ayhan Verit, Mustafa Cengiz, Ercan Yeni and Dogan Unal - Koro: The Psychological Disappearance of the Penis
Wolfgang G. Jilek and Johan J. Mattelaer - Masturbation and Mass Delusion: The Story of Spermatorrhoea
Dominic Hodgson - The Legacy of Spermatorrhoea: A Comment on the Article by D. Hodgson
Frederick M. Hodges - The Urological Fatal Disease of the Byzantine Emperor Justin II (565-578AD)
Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, Christos Alamanis, E Koutsiaris and A. Rempelakos - Henry De Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean Alfred Fournier: A Relationship on Canvas
Luis A. Fariña - Joseph Dietl (1804-1878): His Contribution to the Advancement of Medicine and his Credit for Urology
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - A History of Cryosurgery
Shwan Ahmed
Volume 14 (2007)












Vol. 14 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Pierre Teillac - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - The History of Urology in Iceland
Thorsteinn Gislason - The Historical Journey of the Phallus from 10,000 BC
Muammer Kendircia, Özgen Acarb, Ugur Boylua, Ates Kadiogluc, and Cengiz Miroglua - The Urinary Tract in German Textbooks of Legal Medicine: A Historical Review of 200 Years
Knut Albrecht and Dirk Schultheiss - Urology at Necker Hospital 1966: A Scandinavian View
Jaakko Elo - Masters of Micturition: The Fullers of Ancient Rome
Jennifer R. Hill - Hans Christian Jacobaeus: The Inventor of Human Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy
Martin Hatzinger, S.T. Kwon and M. Sohn - The Moment of Enlightenment
R.C.M. Pelger - Sir Peter Freyer: A Pioneering Urologist
John P. O’Donoghue - The Origins of Scientific Treatment for Venereal Diseases in Athens in the Early 20th Century
Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, Christos Alamanis, C. Tsiamis and A. Rempelakos - Johann Anton Von Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905): Promoter of Modern Surgery and his Contribution to Urology
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - The History of an 85 Year-old European Urological Department
Imre Romics, Rainer Engel, Tupper Stevens and Peter Nyirády
Volume 15 (2008)












Vol. 15 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - Berlin’s International Reputation
Rainer Engel - Pioneers in Urology
Various Authors - Informed Consent in Bladder Stone Treatment from the Ottoman Archives
S. Aydın and Ayhan Verit - Castration: The Eunuchs of Qing Dynasty China – A Medical and Historical Overview
Matthew Bultitude and Jocelyn Chatterton - The Greek and Roman Phallic Influence in Medieval Western Europe
Johan Mattelaer - A Brief Survey of the History of Peyronie’s Disease
Sergio Musitelli, Maurizio Bossi and Hussein Jallous - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Urological Pathography
Martin Hatzinger, S.T. Kwon - Genitourinary Medicine and Surgery in Nelson’s Navy
Jonathan Goddard - Ludwik Von Rydygier (1850-1920): His Contribution to the Advancement of Surgery and his Credit for Urology
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - Studies on the Kidney and the Renal Circulation, by Josep Trueta i Raspall
Luis Fariña - A Modern Poem in Latin on the Prostate
Johan Mattelaer
Volume 16 (2009)












Vol. 16 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - Leopold Casper, the Urologic Heritage
Friedrich Moll and Peter Rathert - Combat Urology in World War II: Urinary Pathology at the Russian Front (1941-1943)
Juan M. Poyato Galán, María del Mar García Millán, María Felisa Álvarez Rey and Carlos Caballero Jurado - The Tuberculosis Hospital in Hohenkrug, Stettin: Department of Genitourinary Tuberculosis in Szczecin-Zdunowo
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - In The Slipstream of Dr. Kolff
Herman Broers - Research on the History of European Urology: Past, Present, And Future
Jaakko Elo, Johan Mattelaer and Dirk Schultheiss - Catherine De Medici: The Cure Of Her “Infertility” and Subsequent Control of 16th Century France
Jennifer Gordetsky and Ronald Rabinowitz - The Management of Urethral Strictures in Ancient India: The Era Of Suçruta
R. Nair et al. - Hrútr Herjólfsson: A Viking Too Large For His Wife? Uro-Philological Workup Of A 1000 Year-Old Story
Stefan Buntrock and Wilhelm Heizmann - The Etymology of Castration and its Association with the Self-Castrating Beaver
Amrith Raj Rao - The Management of Patients With a Urethral Anomaly: A Description in a Textbook of Surgery Published in the 18th Century
Ebru Yesildag and SNC Buyukunal - When the Phalluses Were Still Growing on Trees
Johan J. Mattelaer
Volume 17 (2010)












Vol. 17 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - The 4th International Congress on the History of Urology
Rainer Engel - Jaques-Louis Reverdin (1842-1929): The Surgeon and the Needle
Luis A. Fariña-Pérez - A Historical Review Of Fournier’s Gangrene
José Medina Polo, Ana González-Rivas Fernández, Ángel Tejido Sánchez and Óscar Leíva Galvis - John Hunter’s Urologic Drawings
Michael E. Moran - Pattison Fascia: The Forgotten Eponym?
Dirk Schultheiss - Do Unto Yourself as you Would do to Others: Self-Experimentation in Urology
Johanna Thomas, Omer Karim, Hanif Motiwala and Amrith Raj Rao - History of the Term Prostate
Franz Josef Marx and Axel Karenberg - Andreas Vesalius and Seminal Errors
Michael E. Moran - The Legend of Sun Shimiao: The Man Who Invented Urethral Catheterisation
Wei Wang and Peter M. Thompson - The “Oriental Testis”: A Short History
S.N. Cenk Buyukunal and Ayten Altıntaş - The Relationship Between The Physician And The Instrument Maker
Michaela Zykan
Volume 18 (2011)















Vol. 18 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - Recording History: The Living Witness Programme
Dominic Hodgson and Peter Thompson - The Second Oldest Urological Department in Europe is 90 Years Old
Attila Szendröi and Imre Romics - Education in Medicine and Surgery: Development of Urology in Danzig/Gdansk
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - Circumcision and Genital Decoration as First Urological Interventions During Paleolithic Times
Javier Angulo and Marcos García-Díez - Ampullae Ductus Deferentis, Seminal Vesicles And Prostate Gland In The Hellenistic Anatomists And Galen
Sergio Musitelli and Ilaria Bossi, with comments by Franz J. Marx and Axel Karenberg - Lithotomists And Their Ex Libris
Dirk Mattelaer - Paleolithology
Michael E. Moran - De Urinis Tractatus Duo By H.J. Rega
Johan Mattelaer - The History of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Through the Keyhole to a Wider World
Alistair Rogers, Toby Page and Peter English - Circumcision and Subincision in Australian Aboriginal Tribes
Rachel Thomson and Matthew Bultitude - Lithotomists At The Dawn Of The United States
Rainer Engel - Uropoiesis: Galen Against Erasístratus and Asclepíades
Sergio Musitelli and Ilaria Bossi - Alexander Von Lichtenberg (1880-1949): Scholar, Physician, Migrant
Matthis Krischel and Friedrich Moll - Slaves to an Empress: J. Marion Sims, Vesico-Vaginal Fistula Repair, and Surgical Experimentation
Sara Spettel and Sakti Das
Volume 19 (2012)




















Vol. 19 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - Jewish urologists under National Socialism – a call to support a new EAU research project!
Dirk Schultheiss - The Influence of Hungarian-Born Physicians on the Development of Medicine in Vienna
Manfred Skopec - Urology In Lwów, Lemberg And Lviv: How Political Changes Influenced The Development Of Medicine And Urology. Stanisław Laskownicki (1892-1978)-The First Professor Of Urology In Poland
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - Varicocele In Ancient Greek Art And Society
Sergio Musitelli, Ilaria Bossi - Men with Breasts! History of gynaecomastia throughout the centuries
Johan J. Mattelaer - Echoes of Greek Mythology in Urological terminology and practice
E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, C. Tsiamis, C. Alamanis, A. Rempelakos - On Girolamo Fracastoro’s Alleged Foundation of Modern “Epidemiology”
Sergio Musitelli, Ilaria Bossi - The eminent venereologist Philippe Ricord (1800-1899) and his landmark work on syphilis
M. Karamanou, E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, L. Rempelakos, A. Rempelakos, G. Androutsos - Auguste Nélaton (1807-1873): An Important Urologist “Avant la Lettre”
Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck - Traité des Maladies des Voies Urinaires by Pierre Desault and Xavier Bichat published In 1799: A Representative Discourse Of The Protourology Period
Norberto M. Fredotovich - Sir Percivall Pott and his memorable contribution to the epidemiology of the Chimney Sweeper’s Cancer
V. Hanchanale, A.R. Rao - Victor Ivánchich: Pioneer of Academic Urology
Manfred Skopec and Michael Marberger - Centenary Of Joseph Bell (1837-1911): The Surgeon Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes
Luis A. Fariña-Pérez - Kirill Sapezhko: The 19th Century Pioneer in Oral Mucosa Grafts Transplantation
Igor Korneyev, Dmitry Ilyin, Dirk Schultheiss - Albert Hogge (1867-1933), The First Professor Of Urology In Belgium
Jean de Leval - The Grand Charlatan
Rainer M. Engel - Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980): A new approach to spinal injured patients
John Henderson - Who opened Pandora’s box? A historical evaluation of the diagnosis of prostate cancer over the course of a century
Caroline M Moore, Mark Emberton - Harold Hopkins and Karl Storz: The Physicist and an Instrument Maker
Jaimin Bhatt, Neil Haldar, Adam Jones, Sunil Kumar
Volume 20 (2013)













Vol. 20 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - Diego Rivera: His Art and Illness
Jorge Moreno-Palacios, Jorge Moreno-Aranda - Castrati: Everything For Fame
Martin Hatzinger - Medieval Uroscopy and Urinating Iconography on Misericords
Johan J. Mattelaer - From “Devil’s Temptation” to “Erotic Imagination”
Sergio Musitelli, Ilaria Bossi - Depiction of Venereal Diseases on Wax Models in the Moulage Museums of Paris and Athens
E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, M. Karamanou, A. Rempelakos, G. Androutsos - President Wilson and the Management of Urinary Retention a Century Ago
Jennifer Gordetsky, Ronald Rabinowitz - The Discovery of an Early 13th Century Fragment of Gilles De Corbeil’s Carmina De Urinarum Iudiciis
Evelien Hauwaerts, Johan R. Boelaert - The 100th Anniversary of the Journal D’urologie Médicale Et Chirurgicale
Johan J. Mattelaer - Open Cystotomy For Bladder Cancer: From Necessity To Obscurity - The Rise And Fall Of A Historical Operation
Susannah M. La-Touche, Roger C. Kockelbergh, Jonathan C. Goddard - Urology in France in the 19th Century and the Beginning of the 20th Century: An Overview of the Birth of Urology
Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck - René Küss (1913-2006): A Transplant Pioneer in Paris
Dirk Schultheiss, Alain Jardin - The Author responds: corrections to Volume 19
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski
Volume 21 (2014)












Vol. 21 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - The Original Drawings of “Étude Sur Le Rein Des Urinaires” Painted by Joaquin María Albarrán to Become Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris
Javier C. Angulo, Mariano Pérez-Albacete, Ignacio Otero, Luis A. Fariña, Marlene Fernández-Arias - Drops of Gold: Urine as a Metaphor in Literary Fiction
Kristien Hemmerechts - The Pondus Iudaeus: Reality or Myth?
Bert Gevaert - Andreas Vesalius’ Ideas Concerning the Urogenital System
R. Van Hee - The History of the Adrenal Glands: From the Bible to Jerome Conn
Frederico Furriel, Arnaldo Figueiredo - On Frère Jacques’ “Lateral Incision”
Sergio Musitelli, Ilaria Bossi - Turning Points In World History: Did Napoleon possibly have a bladder infection at the time of the Battle of Waterloo and was this the reason for losing the battle? Urological comments on the pathography of famous people
M. Hatzinger, M. Stastny, F. Moll, A. Haferkamp - From Goat’s Bladder To Latex: The Story Of The Condom
Fahd Khan, Saheel Mukhtar, Kamran Ahmed, Ian Dickinson, Seshadri Sriprasad - Education in Medicine and Surgery in Breslau: Development Of Urology in Breslau/Wrocław. Florian Nowacki (1902-1957) – The First Professor of Urology in Wrocław
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - Urological Papers Arising from the Early Years of the Chinese Medical Journal
Kathie A Wong, Matthew F Bultitude, Jocelyn Chatterton - The 1966 Munich SIU Congress, the 1969 Bratislava Symposium and Professor Vladimír Zvara.
Jaakko Elo and Michal Horňák
Volume 22 (2015)















Vol. 22 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - The History of BCG in Bladder Cancer
Tamsin Drake, James Hicks - The Introduction of the Cystoscope into the British Isles
Jonathan Patrick Noël, Jonathan Charles Goddard - The Ellik Evacuator: Evolution in Emptying
Ali Tasleem, Fahd Khan, Wasim Mahmalji, Sanjeev Madaan, Ian Dickinson, Seshadri Sriprasad - Pioneering Robotic Procedures: Automatons for Medical Liquids in 12th Century Asia Minor
Necmettin Penbegul, Murat Atar, Muammer Kendirci, Yasar Bozkurt, Namık Kemal Hatipoglu, Ayhan Verit, Ateş Kadıoglu - A History of Urology in Egypt
Hussein A. Amin - Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière: Who is the person behind this famous name?
Jasmin Katrin Badawi - The Proto-Urologists and the French Revolution
Norberto M. Fredotovich - The First Human Laparoscopy and NOTES Operation: Dimitrij Oscarovic Ott (1855–1929)
Martin Hatzinger, Alexander Fesenko, Michael Sohn - Beethoven’s Colic: From Pain to Music
Michael E. Moran, Alfredo Guevara Jr. - Professor Stefan Wesołowski (1908-2009): Physician and Artist, Co-Initiator of European and Polish Associations of Urology
Sławomir Poletajew, Bolesław Kuzaka, Andrzej Borkowski, Janusz Judycki, Piotr Radziszewski - The History of Urology in Poland, with Special Emphasis on the First Urological Department in Bydgoszcz
Marcin Miklas, Roman Sosnowski, Zbigniew Wolski - The Role of the Royal Society of Medicine and BAUS in the Development of British Urology
Jack Coode-Bate, Dominic Hodgson, Peter Thompson - The Hippocratic “Oath”: Some Further Reasonable Hypotheses
Sergio Musitelli, Ilaria Bossi - The Regulation of Urology Through Time: A Work in Progress
Ali Tasleem, Wasim Mahmalji, Marios Hadjipavlou, Sanjeev Madaan, Ian Dickinson, Seshadri Sriprasad
Volume 23 (2016)













Vol. 23 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Per-Anders Abrahamsson - Introduction
Dirk Schultheiss - 2015: The EAU Acquires The Jos De Vries Collection
Johan J. Mattelaer - Urological Problems In Spanish Royalty
Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck - The Early History Of Syphilis According To Spanish Doctors And Chronicles From The Time Of The Discovery Of The New World
Remigio Vela Navarrete - Slovakian Urology Under The Swastika
Jan Breza - Finland And Scandinavia Under The Swastika
Jaakko Elo, Jukka Keitele - Notable Self-Performed Surgical Procedures In Urology
Li June Tay, Marios Hadjipavlou, Peter M. Thompson - Edward Canny Ryall: The Lost Urologist
William John Gallagher, Jonathan Charles Goddard - The Life And Accomplishments Of Professor Johann Adam Kulmus (1689-1745)– Influence Of His Anatomical Book On Teaching Of Surgery In Europe And Progress In Education Of Medicine In Japan
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski - Historical Review Of Pioneering Anatomical Research On Female Pelvis And Vesico-Vaginal Fistulas At The University Of Padua (XIV-XVIII Century)
Mariangela Mancini, Marialaura Righetto, Filiberto Zattoni - Who Was The Father Of The Nomogram?
Marios Hadjipavlou, Yiannis Philippou, Ian Dickinson, Seshadri Sriprasad, Sanjeev Madaan - History Of Micturition In Space Travels
Luis A. Fariña-Pérez - Female Orgasmic Emission: Galen’s Observations And...Current Controversies
M.C. Bossi, S. Musitelli, L. Calzolari
Volume 24 (2017)

















Vol. 24 Detailed Table of Contents
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- Foreword
Chris Chapple - Introduction
Philip Van Kerrebroeck and Dirk Schultheiss - In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Jaakko Elo (1925-2017)
- Addendum to De Historia Urologiae Europaeae Vol. 23
- Salvador Gil Vernet: A Pioneer in Urological Anatomy
José María Gil-Vernet Sedó - Meredith Campbell and the Story Behind “Campbell’s Urology”
Ronald Rabinowitz - The Roots of Chinese Urology
Wei Wang - Lelio Olchese Zeno: A Multifaceted Argentine Surgeon in the Soviet Union
Norberto M. Fredotovich - Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy: An Eyewitness’s Historical Review
Christian G. Chaussy - Codex De La Cruz-Badiano, The Aztec Herbal Manuscript: Its Influence on Spanish Medicine and the Treatment of Urological Diseases
Jorge Moreno-Palacios, Efrain Maldonado-Alcaraz, Juan Ramon Torres-Anguiano, Fernando Ugarte Y Romano, Jorge Moreno-Aranda - First Autopsy Studies on Vesico-Vaginal Fistulas: Discovery of Aetiopathogenesis due to Female Masturbation
Mariangela Mancini, Marialaura Righetto, Filiberto Zattoni - A Spanish Treatise of Urinary Lithiasis of the Late 16th Century: “Discourse to Find Out What Urine Disease His Friend And Compadre Diego Anriquez Leon Is Suffering” by Francisco Sanchez De Oropesa (1594)
Luis A. Fariña-Pérez, Ignacio Otero-Tejer - Hypersexuality in the Life and Art of Pablo Picasso
Dirk Schultheiss - Wacław Lilpop, Founder and First President Of The Polish Urological Association
Bolesław Kuzaka, Piotr Kuzaka, Piotr Radziszewski, Roman Sosnowski - The Contribution of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells to Urology
Michael Wanis, Jonathan Charles Goddard - John Wickham – Pioneer Of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Mithun Kailavasan, Vishwanath Hanchanale, Jonathan Goddard, Andreas Auer, Dominic Hodgson - The “Consilium” of Andreas Vesalius in the Work of Rembert Dodoens: Their Treatment of Bladder Stones
Theodoor Goddeeris, Maurits Biesbrouck And Omer Steeno - The Life and Doings of Doctor Wilhelm Schultze (1840-1924) – The Co-Founder of Lister’s Antiseptic Method in Germany and Founder of Antiseptics in Japan
Thaddaeus Zajaczkowski
