Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1971

FéLIX GUYON (1831-1920) Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des voies urinaires. Librairie J.-B. Baillière et fils 1881 xvi, 998 pp., illus. 22.3 cm.

Guyon, a native of the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, was one of the outstanding French urologists of the nineteenth century. Professor of genitourinary surgery at the University of Paris, his clinics at the Necker hospital were attended by students from around the world. A skilled surgeon and teacher, Guyon was renowned worldwide, especially for his work with the prostate and diseases of the bladder. The present work on genitourinary diseases is one of his most important books and is based on his lectures at Necker in 1876 and 1877. According to Castiglioni, "Felix Guyon, the greatest teacher of genito-urinary surgery of the century, with his pupil and successor, J. Albarran, inventor of the cystoscope used for ureteral catheterization, were important in raising renal, vesical, and urethral surgery to a high scientific standard" (Arturo Castiglioni, A history of medicine. New York, 1941. p. 870).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4177

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