Excerpt from The Journal of Urology, Vol. 8 The span of twenty years covered by the life of the American Urological Association is unquestionably the most important and far-reaching that will be known in the history of urology. Born at a time when urology was branching off from the realm of general medicine and surgery - the actual division becoming necessary through the clarification of the field by precise and accurate methods of study, such study opening up problems connected with each organ of the genito-urinary tract which required for their solution the individed efforts of individuals - the American Urological Association, built on broad, democratic principles, became a vital factor in the advancement of the specialty. It has been said that the sound practices of today were but visions the day they were born. Many of the urological problems which had arisen previous to the organization of this association have since developed into sound practices. These were the visions of internists, pathologists and surgeons; for few men, at that time, had devoted their efforts solely to the study of urology. Previous to the organization of the Americal Urological Association but one large society, the French Urological Association, was in existence. A limited society, composed of a number of general surgeons especially interested in genito-urinary surgery, venereologists, and the first few urologists in this country, had been in existence in America for sixteen years, doing pioneer work of a high type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.