Excerpt from Diseases of the Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder With Special Reference to the Diseases of Women, Vol. 1 My own labors in this field began in the Kensington Hospital, Philadelphia. I was helped by the personal kindness Of Professor Rudolph Virchow, who gave me the run of the dead house in the Charite at Berlin, where I did experimental work in catheterizing by Pawlik's method, afterwards visiting Pawlik's clinic with some colleagues in 1889 and witnessing his skillful efforts to slip a delicate metal catheter up to the ureter in the water-distended bladder. In 1893 the whole subject advanced at once from Obscurity into the clarity Of daylight when it suddenly crossed my mind to look into the air-dis tended bladder through an open cystoscope, with the patient in the knee breast position, illuminating the field with a light reflected by an ordinary head-mirror. I could thus easily see and touch and treat all parts of the blad der and pass delicate catheters into both ureters. It was the egg Of Colum bus and the problem was solved in a moment. One had but to look through the Grunenfeld tube, out of which the Oblique window had fallen, to see a whole new realm Of pathology open to view, brought suddenly from darkness into the light Of day. Since then urology has taken enormous strides and though few seem to be as yet masters of the subject, it may fairly be claimed that the field is nearly worked over and is approaching the status of a com plated specialty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.