RE: MANAGEMENT OF URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CURRENT STRATEGIES: PART 1-BEFORE ANTIBIOTICS

RE: MANAGEMENT OF URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CURRENT STRATEGIES: PART 1-BEFORE ANTIBIOTICS

A comprehensive historical review of catheters and lithotomy was beyond the scope of an article dedicated to the management of urinary tract infections. I congratulate Abdel-Halim for his interesting historical observations in these fields. Aetius of Amida, physician to Justinian I, was indeed a Byzantine and not an Arabian physician.