Leopold von Dittel
Vienna surgeon; presented the Nitze-Leiter cystoscope on 9 May 1879 and Leiter's lamp cystoscope in March 1887
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- VIII. Light
What the film says
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Not named in the film: the surgeon who presented the cystoscope on a living patient in Vienna on 9 May 1879.
On the timeline
- 9 May 1879 (November 1879 in one source): Dittel presents the Nitze-Leiter cystoscope, urethroscope and rectoscope on a living patient at the k.k. Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Vienna. timeline
- Late 1886 to 1887: Leiter, with Dittel, and Nitze, with Hartwig in Berlin, each produce incandescent-lamp cystoscopes; in March 1887 Dittel shows Leiter's instruments to the Imperial Medical Society of Vienna. timeline
Sources
Sources
- EAU History Office: Nitze's cystoscope Museum or society
- Neue Deutsche Biographie: Nitze, Maximilian Secondary
- Newell 1887, on the electric-light cystoscope (NLM Digital Collections) Primary