Intravesical Destruction of Bladder Stones

Landmarks in the management of urolithiasis

“…21 Jean Civiale (1792-1867) first used instruments very similar to Gruithuisen's to crush stones in patients in 1824 (see Figure 3), again starting on himself. 22 Once it was shown to be possible, sequential technical improvements were made up to the present day.…”

Jacob Aalls sykdom og død

“…The French surgeon Jean Civiale (1792 -1867) was the first to succeed in performing this type of stone-crushing on living subjects in 1824 (7,8). This was a great advance, but until well into the 1900s stone-crushing was a method that had to be carried out blindly and with quite rudimentary instruments (9).…”

“…From the mid-1830s the new principles of treatment for stones were established, and so they remained for almost one hundred years (8, (22) and his good results contributed greatly to the spread of this surgical method (8).…”