Hugh Hampton Young

Head of genitourinary surgery at Johns Hopkins from 1897; founded the Journal of Urology in 1917 probable

What the film says

In 1912 passed a child's cystoscope up a ureter widened by a blockage below; usually counted as the first look up a ureter, reported seventeen years later.

Watch 43:24 in the film VIII. Light
His prostatic punch of 1909 was an early attempt to reach the gland through the urethra.

Watch 51:07 in the film IX. The Gland That Stands Before

8 October 1902: First documented use of Hugh Young's perineal prostatic tractor. probable timeline
7 April 1904: Hugh Young, with William Stewart Halsted, performs the first radical perineal prostatectomy for cancer, at Johns Hopkins. timeline
1 April 1909: Young introduces his prostatic punch. timeline
1911: Cautery is added to Young's punch. timeline
1912: Hugh Hampton Young passes a paediatric cystoscope up the dilated ureter of a child with posterior urethral valves; the case is reported only in 1929. probable timeline
1913 and 1919: Young reports the first clinically diagnosed posterior urethral valves (1913) and classifies them in three types (1919). probable timeline
1915: The Brady Urological Institute opens at Johns Hopkins, funded by Young's patient 'Diamond Jim' Brady. timeline
1917: Young founds the Journal of Urology. timeline