28th August 2012

28th August 2012

As a group we can't meet up because of sporting commitments and other things. So instead we are going to work on our individual pieces and add them together as a group.

Today I tried to research who discovered the urinary system, when I researched the system it was really difficult to find out who discovered the system and I spent nearly half an hour on researching it and then I finally found a link but it was Wikipedia and it had a lot of information on there from about him to where he studied, when he became a doctor and where he worked and who he worked with. There was a lot of useful information on there it help me a lot with the individual research that I had to do and it also contain a lot of interesting facts about him for example he became a his doctorate degree at the age of 26.

He created a scope called the cystoscope it was a modern invention at that time his name was Maximilan Nitze I research him and he was a famous doctor who got his doctorate degree and he studied urology and then became a urologist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Nitze
 

Maximilian Carl-Friedrich Nitze

Maximilian Carl-Friedrich Nitze (September 18, 1848 - February 23, 1906) was a German urologist born in Berlin.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Leipzig. In 1874 he earned his doctorate, and subsequently became a medical assistant at the city hospital in Dresden. During the 1880s, Nitze founded a private urology hospital in Berlin. He later became a professor of urology at the University of Berlin.
Nitze specialized in research of kidney disorders and other urological problems. Along with Viennese instrument maker Joseph Leiter (1830–1892), he is credited with the invention of the modern cystoscope; a device used in diagnostics of the bladder. The Nitze-Leiter cystoscope was first publicly demonstrated in 1879. Functionally, it used an electrically heated platinum wire for illumination, a cooling system of flowing ice-water, and telescopic lenses for visualization. Invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas Edison allowed further improvements to the cystoscope; in 1887 Nitze constructed an apparatus that no longer needed a cooling-system.
Nitze is also credited with producing the first endoscopic photographs. Soon after Nitze's death in 1906, the cystoscope was used to perform the first thoracoscopy. In 1901 the first endoscope-guided laparoscopy of a dog was performed by German physician Georg Kelling (1866-1945). Today the Maximilian Nitze Medal is awarded by the German Society of Urology for special contributions in the field of urology.
 
 
 There was also another website that had information about the biography of his life and the person who discovered it didn't technically discovered the system. This website didn’t have that much information on there but it just had information that related to the one on wiki or was the exact same information on wiki.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16952618

Abstract

Maximilian Carl Friedrich Nitze was born on the 18 of September of 1848 in Berlin the capital of Prussia. 1869 while still being a Student of the Heidelberg University the first nephrectomy of the world performed by Gustav Simon (1824-1876) woke his interest in urology. 1874 by the age of 26 he passed his state examination and obtained a doctor degree in medicine. On the 2 October of 1877 he presented the first cystoscope to the members of the Real Medical School in Dresden. Nitzes doubtless valuable contribution to urology was making real the endoscopical exploration of the genitourinary system and initializing the era of surgical treatments under direct vision. By the beginning of the XX century urology reached the status of an independent specialty by separating from surgery, dermatology/venerology, internal medicine and pathology.