Antedating of "Urologist"

[Fred Shapiro]

urologist (OED 1889)

1880 _Lancet_ 4 Sept. 403  The development of colour ... on the addition
of pure nitric acid to urine that has been boiled has been the subject of
much discussion among urologists.

Fred Shapiro


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