title: [Bladder surgery and the Hippocratic oath].
abstract: Referring to the famous prohibition "I will not cut persons laboring under the stone but will leave this to be done by practitioners of this work", which appears in the hippocratic oath, the authors attempt an explanation of the real meaning of this phrase. They come to the conclusion that through this prohibition Hippocrates favoured the birth of urology, protecting his students from the danger of professional defamation.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine, Faculté de Médecine de l'Université d'Athènes, Grèce.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Androutsos
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marketos
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history; D006625:Hippocratic Oath; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009919:Orchiectomy / Q000266:history; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history
vernacular_title: La taille vésicale et le serment hippocratique.