Rainer M. Engel, MD & the Anti-Masturbation Ring - American Urological Association

Welcome to the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History at the American Urological Association (AUA)! This exhibit features Dr. Rainer Engel, curator of the museum for almost 20 years, who collected the most interesting urologic items he could find. Featured in this case, we have the "Anti-masturbation Ring," sold in Sears Catalogs in the 1900s for parents to put on their boys before bed to prevent nocturnal erections. #Urology #AUA #AntiMasturbationRing

For more information about visiting or donating to the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, go to https://www.urologichistory.museum.

The Center for Urologic History is named in honor of William P. Didusch, scion of a family of artists in Baltimore and one of the first pupils of the renowned Max Brödel, first director of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which opened in 1911.

Didusch became the primary illustrator for the Brady Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in 1915 by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young. Dr. Young, the "Father of American Urology" was also founder of The Journal of Urology® in 1917, and professor and director of urology at Johns Hopkins from 1914 to 1941.

The center has a rich and varied collection of illustrations, photographs and instruments of historical importance to urology. These exhibits are always on display at the museum at the American Urological Association headquarters in Linthicum Heights, MD.