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A History of 'France' in Urology:

François Gigot de La Peyronie

1678 - 1747

Founder of the French Royal Academy of Surgery

Charles Phillips

1811 - 1870

Belgian by birth but worked in Holland and France

Frederick Swinford Edwards

1853 - 1939

Well known for his writings on rectal and urinary surgery

Joaquín María Albarrán y Domínguez

1860 - 1912

Cuban-born and nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1912

Walter Galbraith

1889 - 1960

Adviser on the development of the NHS

Société Internationale d’Urologie

1907

Brainchild of Felix Guyon

Suprapubic Prostatectomy

1887 - 1920

First performed by McGill

Lateral Method

1600

As used by Frère Jacques

Civiale Lithotrite

1860

With lockable jaws

Histoire de la Lithotritie

1839

Pioneer of barotrauma research

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