Advances in the Treatment of Peyronie's Disease

Peyronie’s disease was first described by Fallopius in 1561. Most of the credit for the discovery, however, was given to Francois de la Peyronie, a French physician who named the disease nearly two centuries later in 1743. De la Peyronie described a condition in which patients have fibrous cavernositis, “preventing them from having normal ejaculation of semen” (1). He suggested that drinking the waters of Bareges, a location in southern France (2), could successfully cure the condition.