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1,553 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810]
1868
#5558
Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.
Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…
1868
#5749
Mittheilungen aus der chirurgischen Klinik des Rostocker Krankenhauses während der Jahre 1861-65. I. Abtheilung: Summarische Berichte. Chirurgische Mittheilungen mit Beschreibung interessanter Krankheitsfälle. (Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Deutschen Klinik' vom Jahre 1866 und 1867.) II. Abtheilung. Beiträge zur plastischen Chirurgie, vorzugsweise zu den plastischen Operationen an den Wandungen der zugängigen Körperhölen. Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Prager Viertelhahrschrift für prakt. Heilkunde' vom J. 1866 u. 1867.
Subtitle of II Abtheilung: ..."zugängigen Körperhöhlen: des Mundes, der Scheide und des Mastdarmes verbunden mit einem Berichte über meine plastischen Operationen von Ostern 1861 - Ostern 1866." Simon was the first to…
1868
#12404
Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.
An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1869
#2964
Observations on ligature of arteries on the antiseptic system.
Lister evolved a carbolized catgut ligature, better than any previously produced. He was able to cut short the ends of his ligature, closing the wound tightly and eliminating the necessity for bringing the ends of lig…
1869
#4424
The mechanism of dislocation and fracture of the hip. With the reduction of the dislocations by the flexion method.
Bigelow was the first to describe in detail the mechanism of the iliofemoral (Bigelow’s) ligament, and to show its importance in the reduction of dislocation by the flexion method.
1869
#5610
Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.
Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…
1869
#11144
Des difformités congénitales et acquises des doigts et des moyens d’y remédier. Thèse présentée au concours pour l’agrégation (section de chirurgie).
This exceptionally long and comprehensive (246pp., 39 text illustrations) thesis was the first French work on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1870
#4470
On supra-condyloid amputation of the thigh.
Gritti–Stokes amputation (see also No. 4466).
1870
#2170
A method of antiseptic treatment applicable to wounded soldiers in the present war.
In 1870, for the first time on the battlefield, French and German army surgeons applied antiseptic methods in the management of wounds. Lister published the above short paper describing the simplest method he could de…
1870
#1619
On the effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital.
1870 –1871
#3463.1
Case in which an intestinal obstruction was removed by the operation of gastrotomy.
1870
#3464
Case of stricture of the oesophagus in which gastrotomy was performed.
First gastrostomy for obstruction of the esophagus performed in America.
1870
#4339
Ueber hereditäre Knochensyphilis bei jungen Kindern.
“Wegner’s disease” – osteochondritic separation of the epiphyses in congenital syphilis.
1870
#4425
Eine neue Reductionsmethode für Schulterverrenkung.
Kocher was Professor of Surgery at Berne, and among the greatest surgeons of his day. He is remembered, among other things, for his method of reduction of subluxation of the shoulder-joint.
1870
#4425.1
Traité de l’immobilisation directe des fragments osseux dans les fractures.
First book devoted to the treatment of fractures by internal fixation.
1870
#5750
Greffe épidermique. Expérience faite dans le service de M. le docteur Guyon à l’hôpital Necker.
Reverdin’s work on the transplantation of free skin, as contrasted with the previous method of pedunculated flaps, attracted much attention. English translation in No. 5768.2.
1870
#11702
Handbuch der operativen Chirurgie von Julius von Szymanowski. Deutsche Ausgabe von dem Verfasser und ... C.W. F. Uhde. Ester Theil (All Published.)
The author, who died of testicular cancer at the age of 39 two years before this posthumous publication, is one of the forgotten pioneers of plastic surgery. Many of the techniques described by later authors without c…
1871
#2248.1
Cases of skin-grafting and skin-transplantation.
Pollock used Reverdin’s skin-grafting technique in the treatment of burn contractures.
1871
#2535
Die Ursache der infectiösen Wundkrankheiten.
Klebs, Professor of Pathology at Berne, Würzburg, Prague, Zurich, and Chicago, preceded Koch in investigations of the pathology of traumatic infection. He found bacteria in gunshot wounds, granulation tissue, etc., an…
1871
#3592.1
A new use of carbolized catgut ligatures.
Marcy was the first to stress the importance of reconstruction of the internal ring following reduction of the sac.
1871 –1872
#4855
New operation for the relief of persistent facial neuralgia.
Pancoast devised the operative procedure of sectioning the second and third branches of the fifth pair of nerves as they emerge from the base of the brain. Reported by F. Woodbury.
1871
#4339.1
On bone-setting (so-called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, etc.
The first work on manipulation written by a physician. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1871
#5751
On the transplantation of portions of skin for the closure of large granulating surfaces.
Lawson, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, London, was the first successfully to transplant sizeable areas of skin, as compared with the small grafts of Reverdin, and of whole thickness skin as well. Reprinted in No. …
1871
#5669.1
Beiträge zu den Operationen an den Luftwegen.
Endotracheal anesthesia by means of a tracheostomy.
1872
#2173
Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Schusswunden.
Klebs filtered the discharges from gunshot wounds, found the filtrate to be non-infectious, and from that reasoned that traumatic septicemia is of bacterial origin. He was the first to filter bacteria and to experimen…
1872
#4339.2
De la périarthrite scapulo-humérale et des raideurs de l’épaule qui en sont la conséquence.
“Frozen shoulder” syndrome described.
1872
#5752
Greffes cutanées ou autoplastiques.
First description of intermediate thickness skin grafts. Ollier used large grafts and carried out complete excision of scar tissue and its replacement with skin.
1872
#5670
Sur l’action combinée de la morphine et du chloroforme.
Labbe and Guyon developed pre-anesthetic medication.
1872
#9699
Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.
Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…
1872
#12419
Eine Methode Aus Der Einen Lippe Substanzverluste Der Anderen zu Ersetzen.
The Abbe-Estlander operation, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip.
1873
#5611
Ueber künstliche Blutleere bei Operationen.
Esmarch bandage for surgical hemostasis. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1876.
1873
#5671
Description of a new double current inhaler for administering ether.
Clover’s gas-ether inhaler.
1873
#11565
Removal of a needle from the heart. Recovery of the patient.
"The first occasion on which a surgeon deliberately operated on an injured heart was in October 1872. This followed a brawl in a public house in East London, after which a 31-year-old man could not find a needle he us…
1874
#3282
Ueber die erste durch Th. Billroth am Menschen ausgeführte Kehlkopf-Exstirpation und die Anwendung eines künstlichen Kehlkopfes.
The first complete excision of the larynx for cancer, performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873 and reported by Gussenbauer. The patient left the hospital in good state on 3 March 1874. Also published in Arch. klin. C…
1874
#5772
On disease of the mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland.
First description of “Paget’s disease of the nipple” –eczema of the nipple with cancer. The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 75-78. Paget was Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, and a great surgical patho…
1874
#5672
De l’anesthésie produite chez l’homme par les injections de chloral dans des veines.
First successful human intravenous anesthesia. Oré, professor of physiology at Bordeaux, reported the successful use of this method in animals in Bull. Soc. Chir. Paris, 1872, 3 sér., 1, 400-12. See also his monograph…
1874
#5753
Ueber die feineren anatomischen Veränderungen bei Aufheilung von Haut auf Granulationen.
Thiersch’s first paper on transplantation of skin. Simultaneous publication in Arch. klin. Chir., 1874, 17, 318-24. English translation in No. 5768.2.
1874
#7705
Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.
Prunières separated postmortem trepanations and rondelles from antemortem operations, and also described tuberculous lesions in Neolithic bones.
1874
#7848
The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.
Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…
1874
#12064
Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica und den Antheil, Welchen sie an der Enstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten Haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verscheidenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.
Billroth provided the first account of streptocci wound infection, calling the bacteria Coccobacteria septica. When Billroth introduced antisepic techniques in his surgical practice the number of surgical patients wit…
1875
#3467
Gastrostomy for stricture (cancerous?) of oesophagus; death from bronchitis forty days after operation.
Successful human gastrostomy by the older (Sédillot’s) method. Reported by S. Osborne.
1875
#4340
Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method.
Thomas splint. Enlarged second edition, 1876. See No. 4348.
1875
#5754
A new method of performing plastic operations.
Wolfe insisted that in free skin grafts the subcutaneous tissue at the site of the graft must be removed, and that the graft should consist of skin only. His name is perpetuated in the “Wolfe-Krause graft rest”.
1875
#5612
De la forcipressure.
Introduction of forcipressure in the control of hemorrhage. Republished in book form, 1875.
1875
#5673
Leçons sur les anesthésiques et sur l’asphyxie.
As early as 1864 Bernard discovered that chloroform anesthesia could be prolonged and intensified by the injection of morphine. J. N. von Nussbaum also observed this. English translation by B. Fink, Park Ridge, 1989.
1876
#2620.1
O privivanii rakovikh novoobrazovanii. [On the inoculation of cancerous neoplasms.]
Novinsky successfully transplanted two tumors in dogs. German translation in Zbl. med. Wiss., 1876, 14, 790-91. A fuller report appeared in his thesis K voprosu o privivanii zlokachestvennich novoobrazovanii (eksperim…
1876
#3022
Ueber die Paracentese des Perikardiums.
Account of first pericardiocentesis for suppurative pericarditis.
1876
#3467.1
Die partielle Magenresektion; eine experimentelle operative Studie.
A practical method for excision of the pylorus, as demonstrated in dogs, was published by these two assistants of Billroth.
1876
#3468
Observation de gastro-stomie pratiquée avec succès pour un rétrécissement cicatriciel infranchissable de l’oesophage.
Verneuil’s gastrostomy operation, a modification of Sédillot’s method.
1876
#4341
A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation.
First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia (“Morton’s disease”). See also No. 4325.