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Jackson, Barry. "Barber-Surgeons." Journal of Medical Biography 16, no. 2 (May 2008): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jmb.2008.007066.
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Jackson, B. "Barber-surgeons: then and now." Journal of Medical Biography 13, no. 3 (August 1, 2005): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/j.jmb.2005.04-09e.
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Jackson, Barry. "Barber-Surgeons: Then and Now." Journal of Medical Biography 13, no. 3 (August 2005): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200501300301.
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Bellodi, Patrícia Lacerda. "The general practitioner and the surgeon: stereotypes and medical specialties." Revista do Hospital das Clínicas 59, no. 1 (February 2004): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0041-87812004000100004.
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate and characterize the professional stereotypes associated with general medicine and surgery among Brazilian medical residents. METHODS: A randomized sample of residents of the General Medicine and Surgery Residence Programs were interviewed and their perceptions and views of general and surgical doctors were compared. RESULTS: The general practitioner was characterized by the residents in general to be principally a sensitive and concerned doctor with a close relationship with the patient; (45%); calm, tranquil, and balanced (27%); with intellectual skills (25%); meticulous and attentive to details (23%); slow to resolve problems and make decisions (22%); and working more with probabilities and hypotheses (20%). The surgeon was considered to be practical and objective (40%); quickly resolving problems (35%); technical with manual skills (23%); omnipotent, arrogant, and domineering (23%); anxious, stressed, nervous, and temperamental (23%); and more decided, secure, and courageous (20%). Only the residents of general medicine attributed the surgeon with less knowledge of medicine and only the surgeons attributed gender characteristics to their own specialty. CONCLUSION: There was considerable similarity in the description of a typical general practitioner and surgeon among the residents in general, regardless of the specialty they had chosen. It was interesting to observe that these stereotypes persist despite the transformations in the history of medicine, i.e. the first physicians (especially regarding the valorization of knowledge) and the first surgeons, so-called "barber surgeons" in Brazil (associated with less knowledge and the performance of high-risk procedures).
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Chamberland, C. "Honor, Brotherhood, and the Corporate Ethos of London's Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1570-1640." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 64, no. 3 (March 18, 2009): 300–332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrp005.
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Vartian, B. A. "41. The cost of mistakes: Penalties for surgical malpractice through the ages." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 30, no. 4 (August 1, 2007): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v30i4.2801.
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In recent years the United States has undergone what some have termed a malpractice “crisis”. It has affected Canada and other parts of the world to a lesser extent and has been the subject of much debate. Throughout history the idea of what constitutes negligent surgical care and its consequences has not been an immutable concept but rather has fluctuated between seemingly polar extremes.
In ancient Mesopotamia, the Hammurabi code describes bountiful rewards for successful surgery contrasted with mutilation or death for failed attempts. In ancient Egypt we see the extremes of strict dogma, where acceptable practice was laid out by ancient priestly documents and those who strayed from their precise format could be met with deportation or beheading, a practice that discouraged developing treatment for those with a poor chance of survival. In stark contrast to these cultures the physician/surgeons of ancient Greece had almost complete impunity. After the monastic orders in Europe were banned from surgical practice in 1130 the uneducated barber surgeons dominated the field. The minority of educated surgeons pointed out many examples of negligence and improper care by this group. Capital punishment and mutilation of negligent surgeons became common once again in the crusader states, as public humiliation was added to the punishment. During the renaissance in Italy, the actions of a regulatory council levied stiff fines for surgeons who infringed on the practice of physicians while seemingly paying very little attention to examples of gross negligence and patient abuse. Finally in the modern era, surgery developed much more effective treatments for many conditions. Paradoxically as soon as a technique became better for a condition, accusations of negligence for treatment of that condition became common.
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Adams, Aileen K., and B. Hofestädt. "Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)." Journal of Medical Biography 13, no. 3 (August 2005): 142–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200501300308.
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George Frideric Handel was born in Halle (Saale) in Germany. After initial musical education in Germany and Italy, he came to London as a young man and spent the rest of his life in England. Until recently, little has been written of his early life in either the English or the German literature, and it is not widely known that he was the son of Georg Händel, a barber-surgeon of repute. When his father's name is mentioned, it is usually to claim that he actively discouraged his son's musical education. Georg Händel lived in a turbulent time; he became an eminent surgeon who served as valet and barber to the Courts of Saxony and Brandenburg, as well as a distinguished citizen of Halle. In describing his surgical duties, we show how these differed from those of barbers in England and France at that time. Barbers in Germany were less controlled, freer to practise as they pleased, and Händel himself had important duties in public health and forensic medicine. George Frideric was the first son of the second marriage, born when his father was 63 years of age. We aim also to dispel the notion that Händel's influence on his son's career was as obstructive as has been claimed, but rather that he was a responsible father with his children's interests at heart. This is shown in the success achieved by all his children, most of whom followed their father into medicine, while George Frideric became the most famous of them all, being regarded by posterity as one of the greatest composers.
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Thomas, Duncan P. "Thomas Vicary, barber-surgeon." Journal of Medical Biography 14, no. 2 (May 2006): 84–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/j.jmb.2006.04-26.
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Adams, A. K., and B. Hofestadt. "Georg Handel (1622-97): the barber-surgeon father of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)." Journal of Medical Biography 13, no. 3 (August 1, 2005): 142–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/j.jmb.2005.04-49.
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Savoia, Paolo. "Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners, and Physicians in Early Modern Italy." Centaurus 64, no. 2 (August 2022): 399–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.cnt.5.129636.
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Gohritz, Andreas, Erich Kaiser, Merlin Guggenheim, and Arnold Dellon. "Nikolaus Rüdinger (1832–1896), His Description of Joint Innervation in 1857, and the History of Surgical Joint Denervation." Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery 34, no. 01 (September 6, 2017): 021–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1606272.
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Background Selective joint denervation has become a reliable palliative treatment, especially for painful joints in the upper and lower extremity. Methods This article highlights the life and work of Nikolaus Rüdinger (1832–1896) who first described joint innervation which became the basis of later techniques of surgical joint denervation. The historical evolution of this method is outlined. Results Rüdinger made a unique career from apprentice barber to military surgeon and anatomy professor in Munich, Germany. His first description of articular innervation of temporomandibular, shoulder, elbow, wrist, finger, sacroiliac, hip, knee, ankle, foot, and toe joints in 1857 stimulated the subsequent history of surgical joint denervation. Comparing his investigations with modern joint denervation methods, developed by pioneers like Albrecht Wilhelm or A. Lee Dellon, shows his great exactitude and anatomical correspondence despite different current terminology. Clinical series of modern surgical joint denervations reveal success rates of up to 80% with reliable long-term results. Conclusion The history of joint denervation with Rüdinger as its important protagonist offers inspiring insights into the evolution of surgical techniques and exemplifies the value of descriptive functional anatomy, even if surgical application may not have been realized until a century later.
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Aymeric Nsangou, Jacques. "A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 55, no. 3 (September 2, 2021): 684–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2021.1981602.
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Epstein, Murray, and Garabed Eknoyan. "A forgotten chapter in the history of the renal circulation: the Josep Trueta and Homer Smith intellectual conflict." American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology 309, no. 2 (July 15, 2015): F90—F97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00075.2015.
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This article reviews the pioneering and visionary contributions of the Catalan surgeon Josep Trueta (1897–1977) to the changes in renal circulation that contribute to the pathogenesis of acute renal failure (ARF). An erudite scientist with eclectic interests in physiology, orthopedics, politics, and medical history, Trueta's initial involvement in wound healing as a trauma surgeon during the Spanish Civil War and the London Blitz is what prompted him to postulate that a trauma-induced “neural effect” on the renal vasculature, with resultant renal arterial constriction could cause ARF. To test his hypothesis, Trueta assembled an experienced radiologist, a renowned physiologist, and a renal pathologist to study ARF in Oxford. They investigated the renal circulation of rabbits in response to diverse traumatic conditions by injecting a radio-opaque substance, using cine-radiography to visualize the flow of blood through the renal vasculature. Trueta's suggestion of renal cortical ischemia and diversion of blood to the less resistant medullary circulation (Trueta shunt) was criticized by Homer Smith and coworkers. In contrast to Homer Smith's data, which were derived from clearance studies and renal arteriovenous oxygen, Trueta used the diametrical opposite method of “direct” observation of the renal circulation. Their differing methodologies, direct visualization of the renal circulation as opposed to inferred computations from clearance studies, accounts for some of their conflicting theories. Nevertheless, the proposal of disparate renal flow compartments focused attention on intrarenal hemodynamics. Trueta's focus on renal cortical ischemia was ultimately validated by the studies of Barger in the dog and Hollenberg and Epstein in human subjects.
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Hendriks, I. F., G. B. Yastrebinskii, D. A. Zhuravlev, F. Boer, I. V. Gaivoronskii, and P. C. W. Hogendoorn. "Medical instruments in Imperial Russia: from a blacksmith to a factory for medical instruments, headed by a leading surgeon N.L. Bidloo." Journal of Anatomy and Histopathology 10, no. 2 (July 15, 2021): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.18499/2225-7357-2021-10-2-89-102.
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The two Grand Embassies to Europe and his view on the world helped Peter the Great to start reforms.Already as a child, he had abroad interest in medicine. Peter often followed a two-track policy. One for immediate application in the current practice and one for the development of specialists in collaboration with science. Peter established a medico-surgical hospital school in Moscow to prepare the students to become doctor medicinae and learn to make their own medical instruments along the line of the Leiden medical school. In Saint Pe tersburg, he opened a navy and an army hospital, intended to train students as a barber-surgeon for the army and navy. Also in Saint Petersburg Peter built the first factory for "mass" production to provide the military with medical instruments.His successors followed his two-track policy. Catherine the Great started to merge the two tracks. During the reign of Tsar Aleksander I and his brother Nicholas I, the merger came together and was further developed. They understood that strong cooperation between a physician and a designer is essential to create and produce useful medical instruments. If correctly designed, medical instruments and devices increase safety for the patient. We will shed light on the development and manufacture of medical instruments and appliances in Imperial Russia, an underdeveloped subject in the world medical history.
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Tsang, Henry, Bryn Gornick, and John A. Schlechter. "Wound Dillemmas: Investigating the Effect of Barbed Knotless Suture Versus Smooth Suture for Subcuticular Tissue Closure During Knee Surgery in Youth Athletes." Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 10, no. 5_suppl2 (May 1, 2022): 2325967121S0050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2325967121s00505.
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Background: Surgical procedures of the knee are commonly performed on youth athletes for a myriad of conditions. Restoration of motion is paramount following surgery and wound healing issues may arise. Studies have investigated wound closure technique and its’ effect on wound healing in arthroplasty, but there is a paucity of information in youth sports medicine. Purpose: To investigate wound healing following knee surgery as affected by smooth running monofilament versus barbed running knotless suture for subcuticular closure. Methods: A retrospective investigation was conducted of a single surgeon’s knee procedures between January 2013 to December 2020. Suture type for closure of the operative wound as well as any wound healing dilemmas (i.e., wound dehiscence and formal operative debridement) encountered during the post-operative period were recorded. The surgical procedure, perioperative antibiotics, wound lavage, dressing type and patient demographics were also recorded. Group 1 underwent subcuticular wound closure performed with a running smooth non-barbed monofilament suture and was compared to Group 2 where closure was performed with barbed monofilament suture. Exclusion criteria was a history of ipsilateral knee surgery and congenital syndromes. Statistical analysis was performed. Results: 486 patients were identified of which 21 were excluded leaving 202 patients in Group 1 and 263 in Group 2. Average age was 15.8 years (range 10 to 25 years). 277 were female. Wound dehiscence occurred in 17 patients in Group 1 (8.42%) and 25 in Group 2 (9.51%) (p=0.684). Formal debridement was performed in 8 patients in Group 1 (3.96%) and 4 (1.52%) in Group 2 (p=0.100). There was a significantly higher tourniquet time (p<0.001), number of meniscus repairs (p<0.001) and trochleoplasties (P=0.011) in Group 2. There was no difference between groups regarding comorbidities, body mass index, and age. A power analysis yielded to reach 80% power (p<0.05) 12,405 patients per group would be needed for investigating the rate of dehiscence and 868 patients per group for formal debridement. Conclusion: Subcuticular suture type did not significantly affect the rate of wound healing dilemmas encountered following knee surgery in this young cohort. Formal debridement was required at a diminished rate in the barbed suture group but not significant enough to recommend routine use. Larger cohort studies are needed to further investigate this trend. [Table: see text]
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Skružná, Jarmila, Adéla Pokorná, Sylva Dobalová, and Lucie Strnadová. "Hortus siccus (1595) of Johann Brehe of Überlingen from the Broumov Benedictine monastery, Czech Republic, re-discovered." Archives of Natural History 49, no. 2 (October 2022): 319–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0794.
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A forgotten Renaissance herbarium dated to 1595 is described. It is connected to herbaria created by the naturalist Hieronymus Harder (1523–1607) of Ulm. This hortus siccus was recently found in the Muzeum Broumovska, Broumov (Braunau), Czech Republic, to which it came from the collections of the local Benedictine monastery. It is the oldest hortus siccus known in collections in the Czech Republic. It contains 358 specimens as well as annotations and drawings. Its creator was Johann Brehe from Überlingen, a sixteenth-century barber-surgeon. The paper analyzes the representation of species, the purpose of the annotations, and also the meaning of the illustrations which supplement some of the specimens. It also investigates connections between Brehe’s work and Harder’s activities linked to herbaria. Brehe’s herbarium is compared with two similar collections; Johann Jakob Han’s (?1565–1616) herbarium of 1594 and Harder’s herbarium, also of 1594, and both kept in Überlingen. It shares some features with both, while differing in other respects. In particular, we compare representations of plants from the New World and the inclusion of mosses and lichens. Finally, we address the question of how a herbarium created in a town on the shores of Lake Constance, in present-day Germany, found its way to an eastern Bohemian monastery, where its presence was first documented as recently as 1937 by Pater Vincenz Maiwald OSB (1862–1951). We also highlight the importance of Czech monasteries as sources of important, unpublished documents dealing with both the natural and social sciences.
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Kruglov, I. V. "Flaviviridae — addition to the family." Health and Ecology Issues, no. 4 (December 28, 2019): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.51523/2708-6011.2019-16-4-1.
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This review article analyzes and summarizes the history of the replenishment of the family Flaviviridae with new members over the last several decades on the example of the youngest genera of this family - Hepacivirus and Pegivirus .It all started in 1966 when surgeon George Barker, who had hepatitis, had blood serum taken in containing an unknown virus. This virus was named GBV , by patient initials. Samples of the serum were frozen. A nucleic acid recognized as corresponding to the genomes of 2 separate virus species was isolated from the tested material in 1995. These viruses were named GBV-A and GBV-B . By this time, the hepatitis C virus had already been discovered, which was assigned to the Flaviviridae family, where a separate, third genus of Hepacivirus was allocated for it.In 2010, a more distantly related virus (named GBV-D ) was found in bats (Indian flying fox - lat. Pteropus giganteus ). GBV-B , which causes acute hepatitis in experimentally infected tamarines, became the second species in the genus Hepacivirus to company with hepatitis C virus. The remaining GB viruses based on phylogenetic relation-ships, genome organization, and pathogenetic properties were proposed in 2011 to be classified as members of the fourth genus in the Flaviviridae family. This genus was named Pegivirus (pe - persistence, g - GB).11 species of viruses have now been identified in the genus Pegivirus . They are indicated by letters in the order of the Latin alphabet - from Pegivirus A to Pegivirus K. And 14 species of viruses have now been identified in the genus Hepacivirus . So the story of the investigation, which began in 1966 with the discovery of the previously unknown GBV virus, has so far concluded with the discovery of two new genera of the family Flaviviridae. Numerous members of these two genera infect and also persist among a wide range of species belonging to different orders of the mammalian class, including Homo Sapiens .
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Nadeem Ahmed Siddiqui, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, and Syed Ather Enam. "Surgical research: Exploring our history — navigating the future." Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 72, no. 01 (February 8, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.47391/jpma.aku-01.
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In the fifteenth century, trained individuals called' barber surgeons' mastered the art of handling sharp instruments and performing basic surgical procedures. They even founded a 'United Company of Barber Surgeons' in 1540.1 Besides shaving and haircutting, they were trained to perform dental extractions and a few surgical procedures. Later in 1745, qualified doctors and surgeons came together and founded 'Company of Surgeons' in the UK, which later became the Royal College of Surgeons inLondon.2 This progression from anecdotal experiences of the guild of barbers to a formal society that helped the implementation of scientifically reasoned decisions by Royal College Surgeons was only possible because surgeons were able to appreciate the value of the evidence and incorporate it into their practices.
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"James Theobald, F. R. S. (1688-1759), merchant and natural historian." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 50, no. 2 (July 31, 1996): 179–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1996.0020.
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Although James Theobald’s background is somewhat complex, documentary sources help to place it in perspective. He was baptised on 21 June 1688 at St Mary’s Church, Lambeth, and later served an apprenticeship to his father Peter as a Barber- Surgeon from 1704 until 1712. However, the family’s real business was that of major timber merchants, importing supplies from Norway for Peter Theobald’s timber yard at Narrow Wall in Lambeth. A Chancery Proceedings case shows that both James and his younger brother Peter (born in 1694) were actively engaged in the timber trade by 1721, or even earlier. James Theobald was living at Belvedere House, near the present Royal Festival Hall site, when he wrote in 1724 to Sir Hans Sloane, requesting medical advice for a sick workman. They were evidently on friendly terms, as an entry in Sloane’s catalogue of ‘Fishes’ records: ‘Two carps from Norway given me by Mr. Theobald who hath some of them alive at his house at Belvedere near Lambeth’. It was on Sloane’s recommendation that Theobald was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 4 November 1725. A year later, on 23 November, he became a member of the Society of Antiquaries, having been proposed by Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, Sloane’s amanuensis and the translator of Kaempfer’s classic, the History of Japan , to which both James and his brother Peter subscribed in 1727. In the same year he and his brother were made freemen of the Barber-Surgeons Company, and James was appointed Secretary, or Co-adjutor, of the Society of Antiquaries, a post which he held from 1728 until about 1735.
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Pata, Francesco, Cataldo Linardi, Richard R. Brady, Gianluca Pellino, and Giancarlo D’Ambrosio. "Bruno da Longobucco (da Longoburgo): The first academic surgeon in the Middle Ages." Frontiers in Surgery 9 (December 26, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.1025987.
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Bruno da Longobucco (1200–1286 BC) was born at the turn of the 13th Century in Longobucco (Calabria, Italy), at that time named Longoburgo. He was the first academic surgeon of the Middle Ages, a period when surgery was disregarded by mainstream physicians and was the practice of barbers, charlatans and phlebotomists. After training at the medical school of Salerno and the University of Boulogne, he was one of the founders of the University of Padua and became the first Professor of Surgery. His books Chirurgia Magna and Chirurgia Parva, were ones of the most disseminated surgical texts of the Middle Ages and it is argued helped surgery regain its reputation. Despite his importance to late medieval period, he has been essentially overlooked in the records of the history of surgery. Currently, there are no articles in English about his life indexed on PubMed, Scopus or Embase. One solitary article on Bruno's life and influence was published in 1960s in a small journal in Italian, but this is no longer active and there is no electronic means to access the original article. The aim of this article is to provide education and rediscovery of the impact of this critical figure, his works and his historic role to the development and renaissance of surgery for contemporary surgeons.
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Zajączkowski, Tadeusz. "HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY, FIRST HOSPITALS – DEVELOPMENT OF UROLOGY IN DANZIG/GDAŃSK." Pomeranian Journal of Life Sciences 60, no. 1 (July 19, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.21.
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The aim of the study is to present the development of hospital services and the teaching of medicine, and the development of urology in Danzig (Gdańsk). Well known Danzig surgeons who were interested in surgery of the genitourinary system are also presented. The beginning of urological surgery and its development within the framework of the department of surgery and as an independent facility at the Medical Academy of Gdańsk in the post‑war period is also described. Extensive research was undertaken for the collection of literature and documents in German and Polish archives and libraries in order to prepare this study. The history of hospitals in Danzig goes back to the arrival of the Teutonic Knights in 1308. The earliest institution, according to historical sources, was the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, built in the years 1310–1311. It was run by the Hospitalet Order until 1382, and was intended for the sick, elderly and disabled people, orphans and needy pilgrim, and the poor. Later centuries saw the further development of hospital services in Danzig. In the 19th century, the city’s increasing population, the development of the sciences, and rapid advances in medicine subsequently led to the establishment of three more hospitals in Gdańsk: The Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynaecological Disease (1819), the Holy Virgin Hospital (1852), and the Evangelical Hospital of Deaconess Sisters (1857), in addition to the old Municipal Hospital. In 1911, new modern buildings of Municipal Hospital in Danzig were finished. On the basis of the Municipal Hospital, the Academy of Practical Medicine was established in 1935. It was known under the name Staatliche Akademie für Praktische Medizin in the Free City of Danzig. Five years later (in 1940) the Academy was developed and changed to the Medical Academy of Danzig (Medizinische Akad‑ emie Danzig – MAD). The beginning of medical teaching at the middle level in Danzig (Gdańsk) dates back to the 16th century. It had its origins in the Chair of Anatomy and Medicine at Danzig Academic Gymnasium (GA; Sive Illustre), an establishment which lasted for 239 years, from 1584 to 1812. The history of surgery in Danzig has its roots in the centuries‑old tradition of the medical practice of surgeons who were associated in the Surgeons Guild, teaching, as well medical and scientific research. The Surgeons Guild existed in Danzig from 1454 to 1820. Over the centuries manual intervention was also in the hands of academically uneducated persons such as bath house attendants, barbers, and wandering surgeons. Until the end of 1946 there was no separate urology department in Danzig. Urological surgery was in the hands of surgeons. Interventions and operations on genitourinary organs were carried out, more or less, in all surgical depart‑ ments. The end of World War II created a new political situation in Europe. Danzig (now Gdańsk) and Pomerania became part of Poland. In 1945, on the basis of the former MAD, the Polish Government established the Polish Academy of Physicians, later renamed the Medical Academy in Gdańsk (Gdańska Akademia Medyczna – GAM). In 2009, GAM was again renamed, as the Medical University of Gdańsk (Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny). The political changes after World War II accelerated the process of the separation of urology from surgery. In May 1947, a 30‑bed Urological Ward was opened in Gdańsk, in Dębinki Street, forming part of the First Surgical Clinic of the Academy of Physicians (headed by Prof. Kornel Michejda, 1887–1960, later by Prof. Stanisław Nowicki, 1893–1972, and lastly by Prof. Zdzisław Kieturakis, 1904–1971). The first head doctor of the new urological ward was Dr. Tadeusz Lörenz (1906–1986), a urologist from Lvov (Lemberg). After the departure of Professor Lorenz to Wrocław (Breslau) in 1958, Dr. Jan Renkielski was acting as Head of the Uro‑ logical Ward until 1971. In 1971 the ward was transformed to the separate Department of Urology. Docent (“lecturer”), and later Professor, Kazimierz Adamkiewicz from Zabrze (Hindenburg) became its Head. Professor Adamkiewicz organized and equipped the Department, leading it quickly to the level of modern departments in the areas of research, teaching, and therapy. During Professor Adamkiewicz’s illness, and after his retirement in 1988, Docent Kazimierz Krajka, Later Professor) headed the urological department until his retirement in 2012. Since 1 October 2012, Associate Professor (Docent) Marcin Matuszewski (*1965) has been the head of the Department of Urology in Gdańsk.