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Cystoscopes

When I began my work as curator in 1993, I was fascinated by the variety of cystoscopes in our holdings. Here was the instrument that truly made urology what it is, the instrument that set us apart from all other specialties, the instrument that gave rise to numerous other endoscopes and opened the way for the future advancement of all medicine.

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Resectoscopes

In the early 1900’s the prevailing method of surgical relief for prostatic obstruction was either an open suprapubic prostatectomy or a transurethral incision of the prostate using an instrument developed by Bottini in 1874 in Pavia, which employed an electric knife blade. W. Wishard of Indianapolis modified this instrument and, like Chetwood in New York, performed his procedure through a perineal urethrostomy.

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