A History of 'lithotomy' in Urology:
1600 - 1699
William Harvey to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
753BC - 554
Influenced by Europe & Asia
1520
Incontinence, fistula & impotence
1561 - 1723
Cheselden's forte
For opening a perineal wound
1886 - 1904
Urologist & polymath
1917 - 1921
Lithotomist & prostatectomist