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1,553 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810]
1900
#3024
Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde.
Jaboulay was the first to perform the operation of sympathectomy for the relief of vascular disease.
1900
#4875
A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.
1900
#5623
Diffuse septic peritonitis, with special reference to a new method of treatment, namely, the elevated head and trunk posture, to facilitate drainage into the pelvis, with a report of nine consecutive cases of recovery.
First description of the “Fowler position”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 551-80. Fowler was preceded in this innovation by Charles White. See No. 6270.
1901
#2250.2
Studien zur Pathologie der Verbrennung. Die Ursache des Todes nach ausgedehnter Hautverbrennung.
Wilms was first to carry out full excision of burnt tissue, and sometimes grafted excised areas.
1901
#2624.1
On transplantation of tumours.
Loeb successfully transplanted cystic sarcoma of the thyroid in rats. He established the fact that growth of the transplant occurred through proliferation of its peripheral cells.
1901
#3523
Nouveau procédé pour la gastrostomie.
Depage used a tube formed from the anterior wall of the stomach, lined with mucous membrane, in his gastrostomy operation.
1901
#3524
Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.
1901
#3606
Abstract of a clinical lecture on femoral hernia.
Battle’s operation for femoral hernia.
1901
#3607
An operation for the radical cure of umbilical hernia.
Mayo’s operation for umbilical hernia.
1901
#4876
The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.
Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.
1901
#4370
Ueber acute Knochenatrophie bei Entzündungsprocessen an den Extremitäten (fälschlich sogenannte Inactivitätsatrophie der Knochen) und ihre Diagnose nach dem Röntgen-Bilde.
“Kienböck’s atrophy” – acute atrophy of bone in inflammatory conditions of the extremities.
1901
#5779
The treatment of cancer of the breast by öophorectomy and thyroid extract.
1901
#5624
An experimental and clinical research into certain problems relating to surgical operations.
Crile made important contributions to knowledge regarding shock. He originated the theory that it is due to exhaustion of the vasomotor center. (See also No. 5629.) Chapter V: On the physiologic action of cocain and e…
1901
#5625
The cause of diffuse peritonitis complicating appendicitis and its prevention.
Ochsner was professor of clinical surgery at the University of Illinois. The above is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 600-26.
1901
#5686
Une nouvelle voie d’injection rachidienne. Méthode des injections épidurales par le procédé du canal sacré. Applications à l’homme.
Caudal anesthesia.
1901
#5688
Studien über die Narkose.
Overton developed the lipid theory of narcosis.
1902
#3525
A new use for the useless appendix, in the surgical treatment of obstinate colitis.
Weir’s appendicostomy operation.
1902
#2909
La technique opératoire des anastomoses vasculaires et la transplantation des viscères.
Carrel perfected the operation of arterial suture, end-to-end anastomosis of severed vessels with triple-threaded sutures. See also No. 3026.
1902
#4229.1
Experimentelle Nierentransplantation. Vorlaüfige Mittheilung.
Successful autotransplantation of kidneys in dogs.
1902
#3025
Ueber chronich adhäsive Mediastino-Perikarditis und deren Behandlung.
Brauer was first to suggest the operation of cardiolysis, a procedure carried out by Petersen.
1902
#5756
De l’ablation esthétique des tumeurs bénignes du sein.
Morestin’s method of mammaplasty. He was also responsible for several of the techniques employed in maxillo-facial surgery. Reprinted, Pittsburgh, 1959
1902
#5802
Chirurgisches aus der Völkerkunde.
1902
#5689
On the avoidance of shock in major amputations by cocainization of large nerve-trunks preliminary to their division.
William S. Halsted was first to use infiltration anesthesia (see No. 5679) and it was later developed by Cushing.
1902
#6210
Vorläufige Mittheilung über die Anwendung von Skopolamin-Morphium-Injecktionen in der Geburtshilfe.
“Twilight sleep”.
1902
#11573
Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.
According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…
1902
#12249
A report of a case of successful suturing of the heart, and table of thirty-seven other cases of suturing by different operations with various terminations, and the conclusions drawn.
Hill reported his successful suturing of a knife wound in the left ventricle. His patient, a thirteen-year-old boy recovered. This was the first successful suture of the heart performed in America. Hill argued "that a…
1903
#3526
Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.
Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.
1903
#3527
Chirurgische Erfahrungen über das Darmcarcinom.
Development of Bloch’s two-stage Operation for resection of tumors of the rectum. English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 210-29.
1903
#4371
Die Jodoformknochenplombe.
Use of iodoform to plug bone defects.
1903 –1904
#4372
Projektions-Röntgenbilder einer seltenen Knochenerkrankung.
First description of osteosclerosis fragilis, marble bones (“Albers-Schönberg disease”).
1903
#4373
Lesions of the tibial tubercle occurring during adolescence.
Osgood was the first to draw attention to a condition of the tibial tuberosity; this is now referred to as “Osgood–Schlatter disease” (see also No. 4374).
1903
#4374
Verletzungen des schnabelförmigen Fortsatzes der oberen Tibia-epiphyse.
“Osgood–Schlatter disease”. A further description of the painful affection of the tibial tuberosity first noted by Osgood.
1903
#5626
Hyperaemie als Heilmittel.
Bier introduced hyperemia, active and passive, as an adjuvant in surgical therapy. English translation, Chicago, A. Robertson, 1905. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#5627
Blood-pressure in surgery.
1903
#13019
Du masque opératoire. Thèse presentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine du Montpellier....
The medical thesis on medical and surgical masks by a woman medical student at Montpellier, who, as indicated on the title page, was born in Witebsk, Russia in 1876. She was also characterized as "Mlle." The thesis in…
1904
#4877.1
Pneumatic tourniquets: With especial reference to their use in craniotomies.
First report of tourniquet with pneumatic pressure of measurable degree. This inflatable cuff was the forerunner of the modern pneumatic tournequet cuff.
1904
#4375
Les scolioses congénitales.
First description of platyspondylia.
1904
#5690
Stovaine, anesthésique locale.
Introduction of stovaine, 1903.
1904
#6117
The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.
Baldwin’s operation.
1904
#10738
The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1905
#82.1
Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.
An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological papers an…
1905
#1894
Physiological and pharmacological studies of magnesium salts.
A study of the anesthetic and other effects of magnesium salts.
1905
#3571
The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.
The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905
#3025.1
The transplantation of veins and organs.
Reports experimental heart transplantation in a dog. See also the earlier paper on pp. 284-5.
1905
#4878
Concerning surgical intervention for the intracranial hemorrhages of the new-born.
Successful operative intervention in intracranial hemorrhage of the new-born.
1905
#4879
The establishment of cerebral hernia as a decompressive measure for inaccessible brain tumors.
1905
#4375.1
On the means of lengthening in the lower limbs, the muscles and tissues which are shortened through deformity.
First attempt at surgical lengthening of limbs.
1905
#5803
The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.
1905
#5804
Geschichte der Chirurgie. In. T. PUSCHMANN’S Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 3, 1-306.
1905
#5691
Die Lokalanästhesie, ihre wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und praktische Anwendung.
Braun’s important book on local anesthesia greatly stimulated the development of that subject. English translation, Philadelphia, 1914.