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1,553 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810]
1905
#5693
Perorale Tubagen mit und ohne Druck.
Kuhn introduced the intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization about 1900; he used a flexible metal tube and a curved introducer. He also experimented with positive and negative pressure insufflation.
1905
#5692
Uebereinige neue örtliche Anaesthetica (Stovain, Alypin, Novocain).
Procaine (novocaine), synthesized by Einhorn, was first used clinically by Braun.
1905
#8390
The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary by George A. Reisner. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 1.
The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE. The papyrus is so unus…
1905
#14147
An anatomical, experimental, and clinical study of acute phlegmons of the hand.
"Kanavel produced the classic paper on infection in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1905. In that paper, he described the anatomy and clinical study of acute infections of the hand. This clearly changed the cour…
1906
#4475
Tecnica generale della amputazioni mucosi. Amputazioni plastico-ortopediche con metodo proprio secundo la proposta del Vanghetti. Dimonstrazioni pratiche.
Ceci was the first to operate on the lines suggested by Vanghetti.
1906
#3025.2
Nuevas trabajos de cirugía vascular; substitución plástica de las arteriás por las venas, ó arterioplastia venosa, aplicada, como nuevo metodo, al tratamiento de los aneurismas.
Goyanes used vein grafts to restore arterial flow.
1906
#4376
Ueber Ablösung von Gelenkteilen und verwandte Prozesse.
Büdinger was the first to describe pathological fracture of the cartilage of the patella. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1908, 92, 510-36. Later descriptions by Karl Ludloff, Verh. dtsch. Ges. Chir., 19…
1906
#4376.1
Ueber Osteogenesis imperfecta tarda.
Looser’s syndrome.
1906
#5780
Senile parenchymatous hypertrophy of female breast.
Bloodgood’s theory of the causation of chronic mastitis.
1906
#5805
The evolution of American surgery. IN: American practice of surgery, Edited by J.D. Bryant and A.H. Buck, 2, 1-67.
1906
#5950.1
Eine erfolgreiche totale Keratoplastik.
First successful corneal transplantation (keratoplasty).
1906
#6212
Geburten in künstlichem Dämmerschlaf.
“Twilight sleep”. Gauss developed the method introduced by Steinbüchel (No. 6210).
1906
#11563
Uniterminal and biterminal venous transplantations.
"The possibility of transforming a vein into an artery, from a functional point of view, naturally arouses the idea of substituting veins for arteries when the latter are rendered useless by some pathological processe…
1907 –1916
#12
An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1907
#3608.1
The technic of modern operations for hernia.
Includes description of the Ferguson operation.
1907
#3025.3
Ligation of the ductus arteriosus.
Munro was first to suggest the feasibility of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus.
1907
#3026
The surgery of blood vessels, etc.
Carrel’s remarkable technique of end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels; see also No. 2909.
1907
#4879.01
Some points on the surgery of the brain and its membranes.
Ballance recognized and described chronic subdural hematoma with great accuracy, described a successful operation for it and also for subdural hygroma, discussed brain abscess fully and devoted 243pp. to brain tumors.
1907
#4430
Clinical remarks on the operative treatment of fractures.
Lane’s plates and screws for union of fractures.
1907
#4431
Eine neue Extensionsmethode in der Frakturenbehandlung.
Steinmann nail or pin, for insertion through a distal fragment and controlled by direct skeletal traction. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics.
1907
#4431.1
L’intervention opératoire dans les fractures.
Lambotte developed an external fracture fixation device using pins on either side of the fracture, connected by a solid rod.
1907
#5756.1
The correction of featural imperfections.
The first book on cosmetic surgery. Miller “was both a quack and surgical visionary, years ahead of his more academic colleagues” (Rogers).
1907
#5806
Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.
1908
#1435.1
The structure and functions of the cerebellum examined by a new method.
Stereotactic apparatus for the accurate location of electrodes in the brain. The apparatus devised by Horsley and Clarke opened the way to stereotactic surgery of the brain.
1908
#2634
Chronisch entzündliche Bauchdeckengeschwülste nach Bruchoperationen.
“Schloffer’s tumor” – a rare inflammatory pseudotumor of the abdomen. It usually appears several years after abdominal surgery, including herniotomy, or trauma.
1908
#3528.1
A method of performing abdomino-perineal excision for carcinoma of the rectum and of the terminal portion of the pelvic colon.
Miles devised the operation of abdomino-perineal resection.
1908
#3529
Beitrag zur Magenchirurgie.
Report of Hofmeister’s modification of the Billroth II gastro-enterostomy.
1908
#3572
Die Wurmfortsatzentzündung.
Aschoff’s theory of the enterogenous origin of appendicitis.
1908
#4235
Transplantation in mass of the kidneys.
Carrel revolutionized vascular surgery. He transplanted the kidney from one animal to another, an operation later carried out successfully in man. For his earlier work on vascular anastomosis and transplantation of vi…
1908
#2999
La cure des varices du membre inférieur par l’injection intraveineuse d’une solution d’iode.
Schiassi combined operative and sclerosant methods in the treatment of varicose veins. Translation in Med. Press, 1909, 87,377.
1908
#3012
Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.
Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).
1908
#3027
Results of the transplantation of blood vessels, organs and limbs.
Carrel showed that arteries kept for days or weeks outside the body can be transplanted successfully.
1908
#4880
Ueber eine neue operative Methode der Behandlung spastischer Lähmungen mittels Resektion hinterer Rückenmarkswurzeln.
Foerster’s operation of rhizotomy for spastic paralysis.
1908
#4880.1
Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.
Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harvey Cushing [1947] 2…
1908 –1911
#4880.2
Chirurgie des Gehirns und Rückenmarks nach eigenen Erfahrungen. 2 vols.
With Macewen and Cushing, Krause pioneered the development of neurosurgery as a specialty. This is his most comprehensive work. English translation by H.A. Haubold and M. Thorek, 3 vols., New York, Rebman, [1909-12],
1908
#4377
Ueber eine häufige, bisher anscheinend unbekannte Erkrankung einzelner kindlicher Knochen.
“Köhler’s disease” of the scaphoid bone of the foot in children. See No. 4387.
1908
#4377.1
Ueber Gelenktransplantation.
First osteoarticular joint transplant. English translation in Clin. orthop., 1985, 197, 1-10. See also his paper, "Substitution of whole or half joints from freshly amputated extremities by free plastic operation," Su…
1908
#5781
Les tumeurs du sein.
1908
#5693.1
Un appareil pour l’anesthésie par l’éther.
Ombrédanne ether inhaler.
1908
#10591
Experimental and clinical notes on chronic valvular lesions in the dog and their possible relation to a future surgery of cardiac valves.
Cushing and Branch's work was a key step in the early development of surgery of the mitral valves, later realized by Cushing's students Elliot Carr Cutler and Claude Beck in 1924. "Experiments on canine heart valves w…
1909
#789
Some considerations upon high amputation of the rectum.
“Hartmann’s critical point”, the site on the large intestine where the lowest sigmoid artery meets the superior rectal arterial branch.
1909
#85
The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.
Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the antiseptic…
1909
#3531
The operative treatment of chronic constipation.
Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.
1909
#3860
Auto- and isotransplantation, in dogs, of the parathyroid glandules.
1909
#2969
Partial progressive and complete occlusion of the aorta and other large arteries in the dog by means of the metal band.
Halsted introduced a metal band in place of a ligature for the occlusion of arteries.
1909
#4881
Ueber operative Behandlung gastrischer Krisen durch Resektion der 7-10. hinteren Dorsalwurzel.
Foerster’s operation for tabes.
1909
#4882
The Linacre lecture on the function of the so-called motor area of the brain.
Horsley demonstrated that removal of the precentral area in man abolished athetosis.
1909
#4378
Ueber Nagelextension.
Kirschner wire, for skeletal traction, and for stabilization of bone fragments or joint immobilization.
1909
#5756.2
Underdeveloped lower jaw, with limited excursion. Report of two cases with operation.
Closed ramisection of the mandible for micrognathia or prognathism.
1909
#5756.3
A method of splinting skin grafts.
The Davis graft was devised by Halsted but Davis popularized its use.