Urolithiasis A Comprehensive History

Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History provides a historical sojourn into the varied manifestations of kidney stone disease. Utilizing historical sources and integrating classic material with new concepts, this new volume provides depth and details on stone disease not found in modern overviews on th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moran, Michael E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A Literary Legacy of Lithiasis
  • Paleolithology
  • Greco-Roman Stone Disease
  • Dark Ages, Dark Therapies
  • Renaissance of Urolithiasis
  • van Beverwijck-The Bridge from Ancient to Modern
  • Enlightened Minds and Stone Disease
  • Charlatans, Quacks & Joanna Stephens
  • Evolution of Stone Disease
  • Founding Fathers of Stone Chemistry
  • Famous Stone Sufferers
  • Frederik Ruysch’s Fascination With Urolithiasis
  • Gray’s Anatomy of Stones: Henry Vandyke Carter
  • The Stone Hospital & Stone Treatment
  • Liesegang’s Rings
  • Lithotomy
  • Litholapaxy- Civiale to Bigelow, von Kern controversy (1828)
  • Imaging the Beast- Sounding, Lithoscopes and Röntgen Rays
  • Rise of “Science” in Stone Disease
  • Fictitious Stones and Sir William Osler
  • Early Modern Stone Disease
  • Epidemiology
  • Pathophysiology
  • The Rarest Stone of All!
  • The Largest Stone of All!
  • Lithotripsy: From Rocket Science t