Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2230

JOAQUIN ALBARRAN (1860-1912) Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires. Masson et Cie 1909 xi, 991, 32 pp., 561 illus. (part col.). 25.2 cm.

Albarran, a Cuban by birth, studied at Havana and at Barcelona, Spain, where he received his medical degree. He was trained in Paris by Guyon (see No. 1971), the acknowledged leader in French urology. Albarran developed a successful operation for nephropexy, was the first surgeon in France to perform perineal prostatectomy, and invented the cystoscope with movable lens, an instrument now considered of absolute importance in the diagnosis and treatment of ureteral, vesical, and urethral disease. In the preface to this work, Albarran states that he has not sought to review all the techniques of urology, but only those of his own which he has learned through personal experience, based on a knowledge of normal urogenital anatomy and pathology. The book is a model of precise organization, and is exceptionally well illustrated with many colored figures. It is dedicated to Guyon with whom Albarran was associated on the faculty of the University and at the Necker Hospital in Paris.

See Related Record(s): 1971

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4195

Gift of John Martin, M.D.