Hugh Hampton Young
Hugh Hampton Young
1870-1945
American surgeon and physician who developed important new techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of genito-urinary disorders. For carcinoma of the prostate, he developed new approaches to the prostatectomy, including the perineal prostatectomy and the punch prostatectomy operations. Young and his associates introduced the use of mercurochrome as a germicide for the treatment of infections of the genito-urinary tract and the use of vesiculography (involving thorium and x rays). In 1937 Young published a treatise entitled Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases. He had a long and distinguished career as chief of the Department of Genito-Urinary Diseases at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
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