Skip to main content
  1. BAUS Home
  2. Virtual Museum
  3. Timeline

A History of 'catheters' in Urology:

Charles Phillips

1811 - 1870

Belgian by birth but worked in Holland and France

Roman Catheter

1st Century AD

Double curved for males

Silver Catheters

19th Century AD

For dilating urethral strictures

Sir John Thomson-Walker

1871 - 1937

First urologist to perform retrograde ureterography

Thompson Catheters

19th Century AD

One of his many instruments

Hamilton Irvine Box

19th Century AD

Suprapubic drainage device

Popular Tags

Our most commonly used search tags are below:

America    army    association    BAUS    bladder    book    catheters    congress    cystoscope    Dublin    Edinburgh    endourology    France    Glasgow    Harrogate    hospital    instrument    Ireland    Joyce    lithotomy    lithotrite    Liverpool    London    Manchester    MICC    Millin    Morson    photography    procedure    prostate    Roman    RSM    Scotland    SEC    stones    Three P's    TURP    urethra    urinary    world war