{"id":5,"date":"2017-03-06T23:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=5"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:31:47","slug":"the-first-urologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-first-urologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bladder stones, a 17th century musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithotomy &#8211; and hence, the lithotomy position.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xlw0dKOPkkE?t=21s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>French composer Martin Marais (1656-28) wrote this dramatic, narrated piece about the experience of this terrifying,\u00a0high-risk, no-anaesthetic operation in the 17th century. The approach was trans-perineal.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Pepys had a bladder stone removed this way when he was 25 in 1658, repeatedly mentioned in his diaries, including in their very first lines written on Sunday 1 January 1660:<\/p>\n<p><em>Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He celebrated his survival from this traumatic event annually.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>More on lithotomy from <a href=\"http:\/\/historyofnephrology.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/03\/lithotomists-first-nephro-urological.html\">historyofnephrology blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marin_Marais\">Martin Marais<\/a> (Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li>The engraving of a lithotomy operation is from <em>Litotomia<\/em>, by Tommaso Alghisi, Florence 1707. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\/\">Wellcome Images<\/a>, Creative Commons<\/li>\n<li><em>Pepys diaries<\/em>: Claire Tomalin\u2019s <em>The Unequalled Self<\/em> is widely recommended as the best starting point, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepysdiary.com\/diary\">full text of the diaries is online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithotomy &#8211; and hence, the lithotomy position. Commentary French composer Martin Marais (1656-28) wrote this dramatic, narrated piece about the experience of this terrifying,\u00a0high-risk, no-anaesthetic operation in the 17th century. The approach was trans-perineal. Samuel Pepys had a bladder stone removed this way when he was 25 in 1658, repeatedly mentioned in his diaries, including <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-first-urologists\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[21,15,4],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgery","category-urology","tag-history","tag-music","tag-patient-experience"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":1,"sum_votes":5},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}