Talk:Catheter

message: 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)
thread_title:  Franklin 

message: He invented the first catheter in America, which was a modification of the European version. http://library.thinkquest.org/22254/catheter.htm. --98.172.115.234 (talk) 08:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Franklin Catheter 

message: As reported by popular science in June 2009, he has created an improved catheter. I would write about it myself, but I'm neither familiar with catheters in general nor understand his device well to offer a broad overview. I'm looking for someone who is more knowledgeable to explain it to me here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lkjhv (talk • contribs) 02:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
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message: The article does not make clear how this differs from a cannula.
—DIV (137.111.13.4 (talk) 06:30, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I just looked at the article trying to find out the same thing. I realise that "catheter" is commonly misunderstood to only refer to a urinary catheter, but given that, what is the difference between a catheter (more broadly) and a cannula? JezGrove (talk) 18:53, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannula 

message: Here's a link, as the article appeared  I am unable to find any support for "Walsh catheter". This sentence, "In the early 1900s, a Dubliner named Walsh and famous Scottish urinologist Norman Gibbon teamed together" is malarkey. 
Norman Gibbon developed the Gibbons catheter in 1958. The only Walsh I can find is Patrick C. Walsh, an American urologist, born 1938. Obviously, "the early 1900s" is unsupported, Walsh is American, and I doubt he "teamed together" with Gibbon, at the age of twenty. And 1958 is NOT the early 1900s. No mention of a "Walsh catheter" can I find. 
Most distressing, this misinformation is now contained on various mirrors/copies of WP, and may find its way into print! I am so put out and disgusted. This information has been extant since 2008. Now working to revise the paragraph, with sources. Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 21:37, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with section, per Walsh-Gibbon catheter