Moses Swick
American physician (born Moses Goldstein; Columbia MD 1924); discovered the urographic use of Uroselectan in 1929 contested
- Dates
- 1900-1985 (source: Wikipedia (de): Moses Swick )
- Chapters
- VIII. Light
Contested
Credit for intravenous urography is contested among Swick (the urographic use), von Lichtenberg (whose clinic and presentations carried the work) and the chemists Binz and Räth (who made the compounds). Swick's part was recognised only in 1966.
Sources
What the film says
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A young American who, in Hamburg and Berlin in 1929, found an iodine compound that the kidneys excreted quickly and that drew the urinary tract on the plate.
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Overlooked for decades; received a medal for the work only in 1966.
On the timeline
- 1924: Moses Swick graduates MD from Columbia. timeline
- November 1929: Swick's paper on intravenous urography with Uroselectan appears in Klinische Wochenschrift, followed by a joint clinical paper with von Lichtenberg. timeline
- 8 November 1930: Swick's English account of intravenous urography appears in JAMA. timeline
- 1966: Swick receives the Valentine Medal of the New York Academy of Medicine. timeline
- 1966: Swick publishes his retrospective, 'The discovery of intravenous urography', in the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. probable timeline
- 1975, 1978 and 1984: Later recognition for Swick: a doctorate conferred by the Free University of Berlin (1975), a New York City citation (1978) and a Society of Urology citation (1984). timeline