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What year was the catheter invented?

when was the catheter invented?

The Egyptians used papyrus and the Greeks used reeds. The techniques used to drain the bladder are millenia old. See Shokeir, A & Hussein M. (1999) "The urology of Pharaonic Egypt" BJUInt 84:7 aaaaaaaa.UPDATE

Franklin

The article on Ben Franklin credits him with inventing the catheter, though there's no mention of it here. Does anyone know where a source can be found on this statement, if it is indeed true? Slugmaster 19:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had this argument about a year ago. Hence the statement about catheters being used in the ancient world. Benjamin Franklin did NOT invent the catheter, but every time I took it out, someone felt disposed to put it back. I gave up in the end. He might have invented a latex catheter (I don't know), and that might be what they were getting at... Jfbcubed 19:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 == Franklin ==
 The article on [[Ben Franklin]] credits him with inventing the catheter, though there's no mention of it here. Does anyone know where a source can be found on this statement, if it is indeed true? [[User:Slugmaster|Slugmaster]] 19:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
+*I had this argument about a year ago. Hence the statement about catheters being used in the ancient world. Benjamin Franklin did NOT invent the catheter, but every time I took it out, someone felt disposed to put it back. I gave up in the end. He might have invented a latex catheter (I don't know), and that might be what they were getting at...  [[User:Jfbcubed|Jfbcubed]] 19:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)