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Only perfected in the late 19th Century thanks to the development of portable electrical lighting, cystoscopes are designed to be inserted through a patient's urethra to perform various diagnostic and surgical procedures in the bladder. This set of rigid cystoscopes was produced by the Electro Surgical Instruments Company of Rochester, New York, around 1909.
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Dr. Bransford Lewis
1:30 Cystoscopy: Early History
3:11 French Gauge / Male and Female Models
4:06 Pain Management
4:43 Compound / Fixed Lens
4:57 Air and Water Inflation
5:37 Illumination Systems
7:21 Accessories
8:18 Ureteral Catheterization
9:57 Misc. Accessories
10:32 Outro
SOURCES
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:8229903$52i.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5193551&seq=22
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8726928/pdf/buffmedj138674-0005.pdf
patents.google.com/patent/US1901731A/en?q=(cystoscope)&oq=cystoscope&sort=old
researchgate.net/publication/319908346_History_of_Cystoscopy
Only perfected in the late 19th Century thanks to the development of portable electrical lighting, cystoscopes are designed to be inserted through a patient's urethra to perform various diagnostic and surgical procedures in the bladder. This set of rigid cystoscopes was produced by the Electro Surgical Instruments Company of Rochester, New York, around 1909.
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Dr. Bransford Lewis
1:30 Cystoscopy: Early History
3:11 French Gauge / Male and Female Models
4:06 Pain Management
4:43 Compound / Fixed Lens
4:57 Air and Water Inflation
5:37 Illumination Systems
7:21 Accessories
8:18 Ureteral Catheterization
9:57 Misc. Accessories
10:32 Outro
SOURCES
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:8229903$52i.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5193551&seq=22
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8726928/pdf/buffmedj138674-0005.pdf
patents.google.com/patent/US1901731A/en?q=(cystoscope)&oq=cystoscope&sort=old
researchgate.net/publication/319908346_History_of_Cystoscopy
