[Methods of endoluminal treatment of urethral stenosis up to the end of the 19th Century]. / Métodos de tratamiento endoluminal de la estenosis de uretra hasta finales del Siglo XIX.

ABSTRACT

Ever since Hippocrates, physicians have managed patients that suffered from urethral stricture. To that end, genius and imagination put to the service of scientific knowledge, have produced numerous apparatus, instruments and methods of a varied nature, with the aim of allowing urine passage through the strictured urethra. Illustrious names such as Andrés Laguna or Francisco Díaz, and other not so well known. Spanish and foreigners, are mentioned in this paper in an intent to contribute a brief view on the evolution of the methods used to treat urethral stricture up to the end of the 19th Century.