Carrillo-Esper R, Carrillo-Córdova LD, Carrillo-Córdova DM, Carrillo-Córdova CA, Carrillo-Córdova JR

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 543-552
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ABSTRACT

In the sixteenth century there were great advances in science, literature, and the arts. During this century, urology as a specialty was conceived, thanks to the contributions of Andreas Vesalius, anatomist and leading physician to the court of Charles V, and Dr. Francisco Diaz, a native of Alcala de Henares, surgeon and clinician. Dr. Diaz had a close relationship with Miguel de Cervantes, who at one point in his life suffered from renal colic. In his masterpiece “Re-Printed Treaty of all diseases of the kidneys, bladder and wattles of the Cock and Urina, divided into three books,” of which the first book of urology is the History of Medicine, describes in detail the clinical and therapeutic aspects of urological diseases, known as the “bad stone” and urethral strictures known as “wattles”, in addition to describing the different surgical techniques and the development of new instruments for urological procedures, which include the cisorio instrument and the Speculum pudendi. For the above, Dr. Francisco Diaz is considered the father of urology.

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