Henry Morris
Kidney surgeon and pioneer of nephrolithotomy; author of Surgical Diseases of the Kidney and Ureter (1904) probable
- Dates
- 1844-1926 (source: Urology News: Early British pioneers of urological imaging )
- Chapters
- VIII. Light
What the film says
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Welcomed the rays but warned that a plate showing only whether a stone was present could mislead.
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Made his name by opening the kidney itself; to him the knife and the finger were still the surest diagnosis.
On the timeline
- 1904: Henry Morris's Surgical Diseases of the Kidney and Ureter warns that X-rays may deter patients from surgical exploration. probable timeline
Sources
Sources
- Urology News: Early British pioneers of urological imaging Secondary
- H. Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney and Ureter (1904), as quoted in Urology News; the original page was not seen by the dossier Primary