Dr. Eldon D. Busby
1894-1951
Dr. Eldon Busby was the first trained Urologist in London, Ontario and in Southwestern Ontario. A professor of genitourinary surgery at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), Dr. Busby graduated from McGill University in 1913 and Harvard University Medical School in 1917, after which he immediately joined the Harvard Surgical Unit as a lieutenant in France during World War I. He completed his Urology training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and came to London, Ontario to start his Urology practice in 1923, when he was also appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery. He became a fellow of the Royal of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American College of Surgeons. Dr. E. Busby became a Professor of Genitourinary Medicine in 1945.
In 1932, Dr. Eldon Busby was the first physician in Southwestern Ontario to do a transurethral prostatectomy. He owned and carried his own cystoscopes and resectoscope, which he washed, dried and packed himself. By 1949, when Dr. McAninch became his assistant, he had completed 1,1776 transurethral prostatectomies, and was requested by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to submit a paper on the procedure and it is recorded in their Proceedings 1949:87-95.
