Andrology

ANDROLOGY (from Greek aner, andros- man and logos - doctrine), the science of diseases of the male urinary and sexual organs; this includes: diseases caused by the gonococcus, Koch's bacillus, intestinal bacteria, and pyogenic microbes; strictures of the urethra, stone disease of the urinary tract, tuberculosis, tumors of the bladder and kidneys, pyelitis, hydronephrosis, pyonephrosis, nephroptosis, inflammation of the epididymis, hydrocele of the testicles, varicocele, inflammation and tumors of the testicles, acute and chronic inflammatory processes of the prostate, hypertrophy and tumors of it; diseases of Cowper's gland; disorders of sexual functions - inability to cohabit and to fertilize, sexual perversions. In Russia, the founder of A. as a scientific discipline was F. I. Sinitsyn, who from 1877 headed the surgical clinic of genitourinary diseases on Rozhdestvenka in Moscow, which was in 1890 transferred to the Novo-Yekaterininskaya Hospital and renamed, at his request, by the university's medical faculty into an andrological clinic; in 1923 it was named urological, as female wards were also equipped.