Pierre Salomon Ségalas
Presented a candle-lit urethro-cystic speculum to the Académie des sciences in Paris in 1826
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- VIII. Light
What the film says
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Showed the Academy a lighted speculum for the urethra in 1826, and later told of the advice Fresnel gave him on the way out.
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Sources
Sources
- EAU History Office: Ségalas's speculum Museum or society
- Desormeaux, The Endoscope, and its Application to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Affections of the Genito-urinary Passages, tr. R. P. Hunt (Chicago, 1867) Primary
- Wallace 1973, New lamps for old (RSM presidential address; BAUS archive) Secondary