Pierre Bazy

Pierre Bazy (1853 to 1934) was a French surgeon and urologist. Born at Sainte-Croix-Volvestre, he studied medicine in Toulouse and then served as an intern at the Hôpital Lourcine in Paris, working afterwards at Bicêtre, Tenon and Saint-Louis hospitals. At the Hôpital Beaujon he was appointed director of urology, and he became a member of both the Académie de Médecine and the Académie des Sciences, the latter in 1921. A specialist in genitourinary disease, he is credited with coining the term for the operation of implanting the upper end of a divided ureter into the bladder, ureteroneocystostomy, and wrote on it in 1894. He also argued for preventive serotherapy against tetanus. His writings include an atlas of urinary tract diseases prepared with Félix Guyon, a multi-volume work on diseases of the urinary tract, a monograph on ureteral surgery and a practical urology textbook whose second edition appeared in 1930.