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The history of urolithiasis apparently is as old as mankind. It is not only a long story but it is also a fascinating document which records on the one hand the stoicism of the patients who over many hundreds of years submitted themselves to the agony of surgery in order to escape the tortures of the stone and on the other hand, the quite amazing ingenuity and courage of the surgeons who developed and perfected the techniques of cutting for the stone or removing its crushed fragments.
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Hautmann, R. (1988). History of the Management of Stone Disease. In: Steiner, R.W. (eds) Laser Lithotripsy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73864-7_1
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