>> Hunter Hoover: I'm not a doctor. It's been a while since I've. It's been a while since I've reminded you all of this here on privy. Ah. And I know that for a second, I had you fooled. You were thinking, man, when this guy pronounced gion wrong, and when he called it the pee pee hole for the third time, I was actually convinced that he might be a medical doctor. I'm not. Welcome back to privy. Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home
bathroom. I'm your host, hunter Hoover, and I love bathrooms. Welcome back, everyone. Thank you for being here. Ah. And the air is changing. I was outside with my son this afternoon, and I noted that the leaves are already beginning to change color. And I'm here to tell you I'm very thankful that that summer, and as much fun as it was, privy summer is over. Uh, it's time for some cooler weather. No more
milk sweats in the middle of the summer heat. We're gonna dunk our oreos in and eat pancakes and eat baked goods and just really fully embrace the fall lifestyle. Pumpkin spice is around the corner, and those who know me know that I am all eyes on wendy's to see if that pumpkin spice frosty comes back. That sweet, sweet, frozen delight. Gotta get it. I am just an absolute basic white lady when it comes to pumpkin spice, and
that's okay. Um, this week on privy, um, we're gonna revisit something that we have talked about a few times on the show, but we gotta come at it from a different angle. You know, we gotta get that angle, because in the past, we have discussed urine, and, boy, have we discussed it. We've discussed historical uses of urine, gunpowder. We've looked at how the ancient Egyptians used urine, putting it in your eyeball. Uh, and we've looked at just some. Some history of, uh,
like, with the piss prophets. And all we can learn from. From how urine was viewed as this, like, magic substance that could tell us something about the body. We had some wild and randy dudes running around at that time. Earlier, uh, in our last episode, I shared my journey of getting a vasectomy. And so if you've not listened to, uh, vasectomies part two, go, go listen to that. You're going to want to seek that out. I probably share way too much. And, uh, yeah, if anything,
this podcast exists for some honesty. So there you have it. I'm open to questions. Um, but it also, I highlighted in that some of my interactions with the urology department at the hospital. Our, uh, urine is actually kind of amazing. And our urine, though, is only a surface level or perhaps a drop in the bucket of what is dealt with in the field of urology, which turns out to be a much more intricate and important body system and area of study.
Today, we're going to kick off the month of September, um, which is urology awareness month, by taking a look at the history and scope of urology and the history and the purpose and the founding of the Urology foundation. But before we talk about the foundation into history, we go, as it's been noted, um, throughout history, both in the time of where the body was understood, and they tried to
explain the. The things that go on in the body and could be wrong with the body by way of discussing humors. All the way up until a time of more modern health, understanding germ theory and other, and other beliefs, it was understood that there is some sort of connection between the things that are going on inside our bodies and that golden stream of urine that we produce. Some of the earliest urological procedures were circumcisions. Might not think of as urological procedure, but it is, and it
is. And if you don't know what circumcision is, you cut the wee wee hat. But it is also recognized that there were bladder and kidney stones that were collected or extracted throughout ancient history and in the medieval and coming out
of the medieval period. And while there have been some attempts to have a more grounded and better understanding of urine and its relationship to overall health, there is, for much of human history, there was not a specific study to look at the very, very detailed problems related to the urinary tract and reproductive systems of
humans. In short, for centuries, urology was kind of like a rough guess where a person comes in with health concerns, and then you observe the urine, um, based on trial and error, smell of the urine, the color of their urine. And yes, as we have discussed in the past, there were times where even the quote unquote flavor of the urine was evaluated. Now, this is very, very bad. Even in a world where things make a lot of sense, which they don't
regularly. If you had a person who was ill, they're sick, they have a medical condition, and you're trying to figure out the relationship between the medical condition and their urine. Why would part of the diagnosis then be, you know what? I'm going to put any fluid that comes out of that sick person into my body, let alone my mouth, and let alone a fluid that comes out of the bottom half of them, like big. No. Very, very big no. Uh, but yes, they were at times conducting research
on the urine. Bye. Taking a taste test and seeing if they could come up with some properties of the urine related to their medical condition. And through a time of trial and error, they began to try to diagnose people based on their urine. At this time, there were doctors who would focus on some areas of concern. But the field of urology, the study of the human reproductive system and the human urinary tract system, was mostly undefined. Like, there was
understanding that it existed. But there wasn't a lot of specialty or expertise in the area until the end of the 18 hundreds. The end of the 18 hundreds. French surgeon and in due time, urologist Jean Casimir Felix Guyon. Now, if you couldn't tell from the name Jean with a jean, we have made it back to France. Anytime we talk about pee or peeing or filthy water or urinating or urinals or urine, we're
talking about France. It really puts the wee wee and wee wee monsoon, if you know what I'm saying. But you Guyan, I'm probably saying his name wrong, too, is probably like. You're probably, like, gagging on the, like, pre nasal clump, uh, of boogers. Oh, speaking of wet, nobody was gonna get that. But Guyon studied medicine in Paris, and there. Guyon's in Paris. He served as a doctor and surgeon for, uh, around 30
years. And in 1890, he became the professor of genet genitourinary surgery for the layman. Urology, genito genitals, and urinary. The wee wee monsoon we talked about previously, um, he became the professor of these things, so that's kind of cool. And as professor, he focused study on urology. And as a result, and in time, the study of urology and the focus on it as a specific branch of
medical science grew. In time, Guyon, along with urologists from the United States and South America, established the International association of Urology. Now, what we've learned here on pre, there's all sorts. There's american bathroom association. There's an associate. If there is a thing that exists, what we've learned is there's an association that goes along with it. There's probably an american association of Shaz in your pants royale. I don't.
If there is, you know, we'll cover it one day. And he did a lot to pave. Guyon did a lot to pave the way for urology as a field of study and a field of practice. Guyon is also credited, uh, with discovering the ulnar canal in the wrist, it's somewhere in here because this is my wrist. Um, but when the ulnar canal gets compressed, this is often called Guyon's tunnel syndrome today. So if you ever have, I think it's like corporal tunnel,
but it's like a different one of them. And they named it after Guyon. Anyway, if you have Guillaume's tunnel syndrome, this is the guy's name. Now, it's probably like Guillaume or something like that. I don't know. Who knows? Nobody can possibly.
Along with the study of urology, the development of urology is a practice is directly connected to the advancement of technology and the progression and the actual development of the instruments used in performing much of the research and investigation involved in urology. To be able to see into the body without cutting it open or through less invasive openings is a field known as endoscopy. Endoscopy is named as such because it uses a thing called an endoscope.
Now, the way you can remember what an endoscope is, is it's a scope that is like a thing that you use to look through telescope, microscope. But, uh, an endoscope lets you look into the ends of, or openings of things. Things including the mouth, the nose, the ears, the butthole. And it turns out, breaking news, men and women have other openings that I did not just list. There are other opening options besides the mouth, ears, nose and butthole. The endoscope can and has been used to inspect the
urethra for those at home. The pee pee hole. Um, and one pioneer of endoscopy as it relates specifically to the field of urology was Philip Bazzini. Now, if I had to guess, and this is, I guess, some bias showing. I don't know. I, I went to a training on bias today, so I know what that is. I, um, would have guessed that Mister Bazzini was, was like italian, but, um, I think he's german. But Philip Bazzini developed
a rough. And first of all, dear Lord, nothing that goes into any crevice of my body ought to be described as rough. Now, I want to note, they do not mean rough as in sandpaper rough. They mean rough as in like, it's crudely, crudely designed. But, um, I don't like the idea of a rough. Anything going into any hole that I have don't clip that. But he developed a rough endoscope that he called the licked lighter or the light conductor. This licked lighter was a device.
It's probably like lickleteer. I don't know. I don't speak not English. American. Like, I'm sorry. I'm, um. Call me what you will, but this was a device that relied on a series of mirrors to reflect and enlarge an image, um, and the lenses to do so. And the use of a candle for light to see into a person's body. Now, it was a good idea. I don't know how I feel about the candle being used here. Fire, um, being involved with any hole on my body. Again, just like the rough conversation. Fire plus
rough, plus booty hole or PP hole or ear hole. And really any hole, you pick a hole. Um, it seems bad. It seems like we must just keep those things separate. Um, Bazzini had a good idea. Like, he did. This idea was good. The problem was, is his idea was too soon for where we were in advancements in other technology. Because that flame, one day, we're going to figure out how to make our own, like, light, and it won't involve hot fire being near any hole. And so, after Bazini,
major strides in an endoscopy were. Were kind of small. And as a result, they had very little luck with small holes. You know what I'm saying? Seeing down the narrow tube of the urethra has proven difficult and inconclusive up to this point. They remained that way until the development of the Hopkins rod lens system in endoscopic. In endoscopes, which was developed in
the mid 1950s. Now, the Hopkins rod lens system provides a safer, more comfortable, more sanitary method of seeing up into the urinary tract. Later developments in fiber optics allowed them to essentially take video of the Weiner canal, really scope it out. Endoscopy really resulted and has produced much of modern neurology to the extent that they called an endoscopies into the upper urinary tract through the urethra. A uteroscopy. Help me, father. I don't care how far technologies
come. If someone is running a camera tube up that hole, I have gone astray in some way, or I am in dire need of medical help. I assume. I assume that if there is a person that gets to the point where they're like, yeah, doc, scope me out, brother. Uh, that they're not doing well, like, they don't feel good. Um, and things have called for the scope, in short, a uteroscopy or a cystoscopy, um, which is like a different level of, I think, invasiveness of a urinary tract
infest, uh, not infection. Dear Lord, help us. A urinary tract endoscopy. Um, but both of them hitch a ride through the Ss urethra tube, and they're used to further diagnose common urological concerns, much like a colonoscopy, which is performed to determine, um, and whether or not further treatment is needed. It also can help remove blockages and polyps.
Now, for some reason, like, I know polyps are bad no matter where they're at, but, like, in my brain, having a polyp in your colon seems less awful than having a polyp in your pp tube. Like, that seems less bad. I think it's because bigger stuff comes out of the other one. Either way, it's no fun. I digress. But the images that they view during endoscopies can help determine ongoing or suspected problems. They can help determine what treatment is needed, if things need to be
removed. And modern urology is a study and procedure. It focuses on the disease and concerns related to kidneys, as well as reproductive health and concerns. These measures include vasectomies, club, vas, we're out here, erectile dysfunction. You know what I'm saying? Uh, and further understanding of the relationships of our urinary system in our kidneys and our filtration system with the rest of our body. Now, I want to note, this is a very surface level, non medical person's view of urology.
I'm not a doctor. It's been a while since I've. It's been a while since I've reminded you all of this here on privy. And I know that for a second I had you fooled. You were thinking, man, when this guy pronounced gion wrong, and when he called it the pee pee hole for the third time, I was actually convinced that he might be a medical doctor. I'm nothing. Surprise. I'm not a medical doctor. If you're having concerns and you've come to this show for medical advice, go away. Keep
listening. We love you here, but go talk to your doctor, for goodness sakes. It's not me. Um, I'm just trying to provide information about a thing that is loosely related to the bathroom, because that's what we do here on privy. Urine, bathroom. Get it? Urology, urine. It's all connected. But this is a very surface level view of urology and what urology is. And that's fitting, um, because September, as I stated, is urology awareness month.
The history of Urology Awareness Month is wrapped up in the existence of the urology foundation, or tuff tuf for short. The Urology foundation. The Urology foundation was founded in 1995 by Roger Kirby and John Fitzpatrick and they founded the Urology foundation for the purpose of preventing, treating and helping cure urological diseases. The Urology foundation is a nonprofit charity that improves the knowledge and skills of surgeons who work on the urinary tract system.
Now, the Urology foundation was originally founded as the British. British. You gotta get your teeth all. Sorry, um, Brits. I know there's a few of you out there. I love you. M. It was a joke. I'm sorry. Please don't send your person after me and arrest me for what I have said. Hollow threat, brother. Um, but the British, it was originally founded as the British Urological
foundation. Um, and they helped in placement and helped place medical students who were studying this field, helped them place into programs and into hospitals that needed help in urology and needed more people working in the field. It also helped, um, with the training in schooling of prospective urology students and doctors, and they've contributed to the study and fight of prostate and testicular cancer. And one of the big acts of awareness and fundraising for the Urology foundation is
Urology awareness month. Here we are. Uh, if you're listening to this episode on the day it comes out, we're but five days into urology awareness month. I hope that you are more aware of urology than you were 20 minutes ago when you began listening to this episode. Here we are. Urology Awareness Month is in its 10th year, which is baffling. Um, and maybe a little more marketing is needed. Urology foundation, consider this
a free awareness plug. In. The last five years, much of the work of the Urology foundation has centered on understanding and destigmatizing prostate cancers and other cancers of the urological tract infection, as well as removing stigma related to, um, getting your prostate checked. The old gloved finger. Yoink. One, um, day.
One day. I'm not old enough for the check yet. At least I'm telling myself that if I go into my doctor and they put, and they pull fast when they're like, actually, you could probably get it done. Um, I don't know about that. All I can say is be a shame if I accidentally recorded something. It'd be a gosh darn shame. Um, I guess stay tuned. I don't know. But the urology foundation states that to help them raise awareness in the month of September, you can dress in blue, you wear
blue. Blue represents, apparently, urology awareness. Um, wear blue. Apparently blue is for urine. I would have picked yellow, but that's just me. M encouraging. I guess that's like cancer or breast cancer. No, pink's breast cancer. What's the yellow one? Yellow is like cancer awareness or something. I don't know. All these colors, um, they all have something. Apparently blue represents urology awareness. Um, encourage friends and family to join in.
Tell them about it. Create a blue themed day at work. Never seen this happen again. I'm not saying that it shouldn't happen. I guess being aware of urology is good. I've just never seen it happen. And so I'm wondering how effective this is. I mean, all this stuff is real. Like this is a real thing. And they say you can host a fun run, um, organize a charity runner walk in your community, uh, to help raise funds and awareness for urology research. Um, they say that you can share about urology
awareness month on social media. Uh, they have a hashtag, there's personal stories. I guess I kind of did that in August. Sorry guys, but I shared my little adventure into urology, um, a couple weeks ago. Go check that out. Resources awareness. You can use hashtags like, quote, you know me, I'm not a big fan. I use the hashtags. I like to say them because it sound like an absolute flippin dweeb. But they say you can use hashtag urology
awareness month. Clever one there. Um, to reach a wider audience and help connect and encourage people to share stories and support the cause. Or in some cases, you can make a podcast episode telling people about Urology Awareness month. That's going to do it for our venture, our, uh, brief venture into urology and the history of urology and the history of Urology Awareness Month and the Urology foundation. Um, as always here on privy, we would love for you to leave us a rating and
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