The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases / by E. Hurry Fenwick.

  • Fenwick, Edwin Hurry, 1856-1944.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases / by E. Hurry Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found many imitators. Thus, John Fisher, in 1824, completed an instrument which was identical in principle and almost similar in construction with that of Desormeaux's. Segalas, to whom Desormeaux wrongly accords the merit of origina- ting the principles of endoscopy, followed Fisher with a speculum urethrocysticum. Bombalgini, John Avery, of London, Cazenave, of Paris, Gessler, Malherbe, Bspezel, all added to the literature of the subject and attempted to improve the instru- ments for visual examination of the urethra and bladder. The second period was opened in 1853 by Desormeaux, the father of endoscopy, as War- wick has called him. Desormeaux laid the first practical endoscope before the Academy of Medi- cine at Paris, and his powerful and enthusiastic advocacy did much to favour the development of the science. Furstenheim made the endoscope popular in Germany. In 1865 Cruise,* of Dublin, made an important improvement in Desormeaux's endoscope. This consisted in concentrating upon a reflector the edge of a fiat fiame of an ordinary petroleum lamp. Camphor was mixed with the petroleum (gr. * Cruise, ' Dublin Quarterly Journal,' May 1st, 1865.