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316 entries match Gastroenterology & Hepatology [C06 / C04]
1826
#3435
Mémoire sur l’entéroraphie avec la description d’un procédé nouveau pour pratiquer cette opération chirurgicale.
Description of what is now known as Lembert’s suture, which ensures that serous surface is applied to serous surface in suturing intestine – the foundation of all modern gastric and intestinal surgery. Dieffenbach (se…
1829
#3439
Traité théorique et pratique des maladies chirurgicales du canal intestinal. 2 vols.
Jobert, famous French surgeon, made his reputation on this book. He was at one time Consulting Physician to Louis XVIII.
1832
#3615
Cases and observations connected with disease of the pancreas and duodenum.
1833
#989
Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion.
Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian half-breed who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont as the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach …
1833
#3616
Abscess of the liver, with hydatids. – Operation.
Diagnostic liver puncture.
1835
#3440.1
A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.
First operation for intussusception in the United States, performed in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The patient was a negro slave; the operation was a complete success. Reported by Wilson’s pupil, W.W. Thompson.
1836
#990
Versuche über die künstliche Verdauung des geronnenen Eiweisses.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1836
#991
Ueber das Wesen des Verdauungsprocesses.
William Beaumont recognized that the gastric juice contained some other active chemical substance besides hydrochloric acid. Schwann proved this to be pepsin. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1836
#3617
Observations on jaundice.
Original description of acute yellow atrophy of the liver.
1836
#3441
Glückliche Heilung nach Ausscheidung eines Theiles des Darms und Netzes.
First account of a resection in which Lembert’s suture was successfully employed.
1839
#992
Analyses comparées des alimens consommés et des produits rendus par une vache laitière.
The first analysis of foodstuffs and fertilizers. Boussingault made a balance of intake and outgo of nutrients in food and excreta.
1841
#1858
Treatise on the oleum jecoris aselli, or cod liver oil.
Bennett visited Paris and Germany, and learned there of the beneficial effects of cod liver oil. His book drew the attention of English medical men to the value of the oil.
1842 –1846
#2293
Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 3 vols.
Rokitansky ranks with Morgagni as among the greatest of all writers on gross pathology. He is said to have performed over 30,000 autopsies himself. His Handbuch was for many years pre-eminent among its contemporaries.…
1842
#3445
On acute ulceration of the duodenum, in cases of burn.
“Curling’s ulcer”. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it.
1843
#992.1
Voie artificielle dans l’estomac des animaux.
First gastric fistula established specially for the purpose of experimentation.
1843
#992.2
Traité analytique de la digestion considérée particulièrement dans l’homme et dans les animaux.
Gastric fistula for experimental purposes.
1843
#992.3
Du suc gastrique et de son rôle dans la nutrition.
Bernard showed that if sucrose is injected directly into the blood it is eliminated by the kidneys while glucose is retained, and that gastric juice transforms sucrose into assimilable sugar. See F. J. Holmes, Claude …
1843
#3446
An experimental and critical inquiry into the nature and treatment of wounds of the intestines.
Reports of a series of experiments upon dogs to determine the best way to treat intestinal wounds. First published in West. J. Med. Surg., 1843. 7, 1-50, [81]-141, [161]-224.
1844
#993
Versuche um auszumitteln, ob die Galle im Organismus eine für das Leben wesentliche Rolle spielt.
Proof of the indispensability of bile to digestion.
1844
#3447
Mémoire sur une tumeur cancéreuse affectant l’iliaque du colon; ablation de la tumeur et de l’intestin; réunion directe et immédiate des deux bouts de cet organe. Guérison.
First intestinal resection for cancer.
1845
#3619
On diseases of the liver.
Budd was Professor of Medicine at King’s College, London. Section III of the above book includes a description of that form of cirrhosis to which the name “Budd’s disease” has been applied. In the second edition, 1852…
1847
#994
Beobachtung einer tödlichen Peritonitis, als Folge einer Perforation des Wurmfortsatzes.
Description of “Gerlach’s valve”, sometimes seen at the orifice of the appendix.
1847
#3449
Case of internal strangulation of intestine relieved by operation.
Records the first operation for intestinal strangulation of the small intestine by Hilton at Guy’s Hospital. No anaesthetic was used; the patient died nine hours afterwards.
1848
#995
De l’origine du sucre dans l’économie animale.
Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80.
1848 –1849
#3450
On the existence of Entophyta in healthy animals, as a natural condition.
Discovery of the bacterial flora of the intestines.
1849
#996
Du sue pancréatique et de son rôle dans les phénomenès de la digestion.
Discovery of the digestive action of the pancreatic juice, especially its role in the digestion and absorption of fats. Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 581-617.
1849
#3451
Opération de gastrostomie pratiquée pour la première fois le 13 novembre 1849.
First gastrostomy.
1850
#997
Die Physiologie der Nahrungsmittel.
1851
#998
Neue Versuche über die Beihilfe der Nerven zur Speichelabsonderung.
The innervation of the salivary glands first elucidated.
1852
#999
Die Verdauungssäfte und der Stoffwechsel.
Even after the work of Prout and Beaumont, some physiologists thought that the free acid of the gastric juice was lactic acid; Bidder and Schmidt finally proved that normally the gastric juice always contains HCl in e…
1854
#3452
Ueber Anlegung einer künstlichen Magenöffnung am Menschen durch Gastrotomie.
Fenger’s operation.
1855 –1856
#615
Leçons de physiologie expérimentale appliquée à la médecine. 2 vols.
Claude Bernard made strenuous efforts to introduce experimental methods into physiology. The above includes his classic work on the function of the liver, pancreas, and gastric glands. Vol. 1, p. 126: Catheterization …
1855
#1000
Sur le mécanisme de la formation du sucre dans le foie.
The culmination of Bernard’s work on the glycogenic function of the liver. He invented the term “internal secretion” and can be said to have started the scientific investigation of the internal secretions, although fo…
1855
#3453
Note sur l’emploi du chlorate de potasse dans le traitement de la stomatite ulcéreuse.
Classic description of ulcero-membranous stomatitis and its treatment.
1856
#1000.1
Mémoire sur le pancréas et sur le rôle du sue pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs.
The most beautifully illustrated of all Bernard’s writings, which summed up the results of his work on the role of the pancreas in digestion. English translation as Memoir on the pancreas, and on the role of pancreati…
1856
#5183.2
Clinica médica. Abcesos del higado.
Jimenez gave a classic account of liver abscess in amoebiasis.
1856
#22
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
1857 –1863
#1001
Sur une fonction peu connue du pancréas. La digestion des aliments azotés. 10 pts.
Corvisart showed that pancreatic proteolysis takes place at body temperature, in acid, alkaline, or neutral media.
1857
#3454
On the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of ulcer of the stomach.
A comprehensive account of peptic (duodenal) ulcer; includes a review of the results of more than 7,000 post mortems.
1857
#3455
Infusorier, sasom intestinaldjur hos menniskan.
Discovery of Balantidium coli, the first parasitic protozoon to be discovered and recognized as such. German translation in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1857, 12, 302-09. English translation in Kean et al. (No. 2268.1).
1858
#999.1
Nouvelles recherches expérimentales sur les phénomènes glycogéniques du foie.
Isolation of glycogen. See also C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1857, 44, 578-86, 1325-31.
1858 –1861
#3620
Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. 2 vols. and atlas.
Frerichs’s classic monograph on diseases of the liver summarized the existing knowledge and included his own important work on the subject. He discovered leucine and tyrosine in the liver in acute yellow atrophy (Dtsc…
1858
#3457
Description of the operation of gastrotomy.
First gastrostomy in Britain.
1859
#1002
Mémoire sur un point d’anatomie pathologique relatif à l’histoire de la cirrhose.
“Sappey’s veins” in the falciform ligament of the liver.
1859
#3458
The diseases of the stomach.
Includes (pp. 310-31) original description of linitis plastica (“Brinton’s disease”). Brinton lectured on physiology and forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital.
1859
#3459
Commentatio de fistulis ventriculi externis et chirurgica earum sanatione.
First operation for gastric fistula.
1861
#1003
Beiträge zur Lehre von der Verdauung.
1861
#4693
Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.
Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).
1862
#1004
Ueber specifisch wirkende Körper des natürlichen und künstlichen pancreatischen Saftes.
Discovery of trypsin.
1862
#1005
Experimental researches into a new excretory function of the liver, consisting in the removal of cholesterine from the blood and its discharge from the body in the form of stercorine.
Discovery, in the feces, of “stercorine” (coprosterol).