history and discovery of urinary system

Cultural history

Since groomed bladder of slaughtered animals stable and waterproof, they served in the cultural history of mankind numerous purposes, for example, as one of the first targeted containers used for storage and transport of liquids, cheese or even of important documents. In Europe, especially pig bladders used in the slaughter house were incurred, purified and used.

In the Middle Ages were as a substitute for real glass windows with pig bladders covered wooden frame used

Child with pig's bladder.
Excerpt from Pieter Brueghel the Elder. - Children play picture

Children served dried and inflated bladder as a toy that makes Henry VIII, king of England, survived that he likes with such a pig's bladder played football, children in the country took advantage of the inflated pig bladders as early balloons. Even culinary found the bubbles use of animals for slaughter. Sun reported Vincenzo Tanaras "L'Economia del Cittadino in Villa" (The economy in the townhouse) from the year 1687 from a recipe, which was held at banquets use. It was a small pig's bladder with the yolks of eggs filled about 25, then in boiling water until the yolk was solid. The resulting ball was then in a larger, with the protein of eggs laid-filled bubble. This was now well in boiling water until the protein had become established. Thus was developed to provide a "Riesenei."

Tycho Brahe is said that he had at a banquet the emperor suffered a Harnblasenriss because Hofetikette the guests up from the table before the emperor forbade.

Until the 19th Century were due to the diet bladder stones is a frequent disease. Since the Hippocratic Oath of doctors whose treatment prohibited, formed their own profession, that of Lithotomus (stone cutter) out. The most famous representatives of the professional branch was Johann Andreas Eisenbarth.

The Inuits in Alaska believed that the seat of the soul in the bladder is. For this reason, throughout the year the bubbles shot from Robben collected. Once a year, these were artistically decorated and bladder celebration of the sea to return, so that new animals could form derived from them, then the next year could be hunted [10]. Moreover, the Inuits drums covered with the bladder of whales.

In the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival are inflated pig bladders (Saubloodere), the mating or cords to be waved, a traditional fools device. With the Saublodere noise can be generated, they serve but also to passersby or other fools to beat