Hugh Young

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Hugh Young

Hugh Hampton Young (born September 18, 1870 in San Antonio ( Texas ), † August 23, 1945 ) was an American urologist and surgeon .

Career and work

Hugh Hampton Young was the son of Confederate General William Hugh Young and his wife Frances Kemper. In San Antonio, Young first attended the San Antonio Academy , then he moved to the Staunton Military Academy in Staunton (Virginia) . At the University of Virginia he received his bachelor's degree in 1893 and his master's degree in the same year. In 1894 he became Doctor of Medicine . He then worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore . He came to urology through William Stewart Halsted . Halsted made the 27-year-old young head of the urology department in 1897. Young stayed there until his retirement.

In 1901 Young married Bessy Mason Coston of Catonsville, Maryland. The couple had four children together; one son and three daughters. After his wife died of sepsis at the age of 48 , Young worked on chemotherapy for the disease, including mercurochrome . During World War I , Young served as a major under General John J. Pershing . With Pershing's support, Young fought prostitution around the US bases in Europe. In this way, Young was the cases of sexually transmitted diseases reduce massive. For this achievement he was promoted to Colonel and received the Distinguished Service Medal from Newton D. Baker .

Young is considered the father of American urology. He invented the “Boomerang needle” and in 1909 the “Young Punch”, a special fabric punch. In 1902 he performed the world's first perineal prostatectomy and in 1904 the first radical perineal prostatectomy to remove prostate cancer .

In 1917 Young founded the Journal of Urology , of which he was editor until his death. The American Urological Association annually presents the Hugh Hampton Young Award to urologists for outstanding achievements.

In 1940 Young published the autobiography Hugh Young: A Surgeons Autobiography . In the same year he was awarded the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

One of Young's most famous patients was Woodrow Wilson , the 28th President of the United States , whom Young treated in the fall of 1919. His patient Diamond Jim Brady , whom Young operated on the prostate, donated a substantial sum in 1912 to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, which then renamed the Urological Institute the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute .

Publications (selection)

  • HH Young: The ultimate results of prostatectomy. Adlard, 1912.
  • HH Young: Young's Practice of Urology. 1926.
  • HH Young, CA Waters: Urological roentgenology. Hober, 1931.
  • HH Young: Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases. The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1937.
  • HH Young: The cure of cancer of the prostate by radical perineal prostatectomy. 1945.

further reading

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b J. A. Benjamin: Hugh Hampton Young 1870-1945. In: Science. Volume 102, Number 2652, October 1945, ISSN  0036-8075 , pp. 416-417. doi : 10.1126 / science.102.2652.416 . PMID 17730618 .
  2. ^ R. Engel: Anecdotes and "serendipities" in American urology: Hugh Hampton Young. In: Archivos españoles de urología. Volume 63, Number 2, March 2010, ISSN  1576-8260 , pp. 103-105. PMID 20354274 .
  3. ↑ RM Engel: Hugh Hampton Young: father of American urology. In: The Journal of urology. Volume 169, Number 2, February 2003, ISSN  0022-5347 , pp. 458-464. doi : 10.1097 / 01.ju.0000045226.67511.71 (currently not available) . PMID 12544287 .
  4. ^ LH Toledo-Pereyra: Hugh Hampton Young-father of modern American urology. In: Journal of investigative surgery. Volume 18, Number 2, 2005 Mar-Apr, ISSN  0894-1939 , pp. 55-57. doi : 10.1080 / 08941930590949064 . PMID 16036772 .
  5. ^ HG Dietrich, J. Konert (ed.): Illustrated history of urology. Verlag Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-08771-0 , pp. 164-165. limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ The Hugh Hampton Young Collection. ( February 19, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, accessed December 31, 2011.
  7. ^ HH Young: Four cases of radical prostatectomy. In: Johns Hopkins Bull. Volume 16, 1905, p. 315.
  8. ^ HH Young: Hugh Young: A Surgeons Autobiography. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1940.
  9. ↑ R. Fogg, and others Kutikov. a .: How Hugh Hampton Young's treatment of President Woodrow Wilson's urinary retention and urosepsis affected the resolution of World War I. In: The Journal of urology. Volume 186, Number 3, September 2011, ISSN  1527-3792 , pp. 1153-1156. doi : 10.1016 / j.juro.2011.04.074 . PMID 21783210 .
  10. ^ Diamond Jim Brady Dies While Asleep. Bulk of Fortune of from $ 10,000,000 to $ 20,000,000 May Go to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Jewels for Metropolitan Museum. A keen man of business. $ 200,000 for Johns Hopkins. In: The New York Times. April 14, 1917

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personal data
SURNAME Young, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Hugh Hampton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American urologist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio ( Texas )
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1945