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1,553 entries match Surgery & Anesthesia [E04 / G02.403.810]

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1921

#4388.1

Une maladie congénitale et héréditaire de l’ossification: la pléonostéose familiale.

LÉRI, André (1875 – 1930)

“Léri’s pleonosteosis” first described.

1921

#4388.2

Die Arthroendoskopie.

BIRCHER, Eugen (1882 – 1956)
BIRCHER, Eugen (1882 – 1956)

First published account of the use of the laparoscope for arthroscopy.

1921

#4389

Kyphosis dorsalis juvenilis.

SCHEUERMANN, Holger Werfel (1877 – 1960)

“Scheuermann’s disease” – necrosis of the epiphyses of the vertebrae, causing kyphosis.

1921

#5702

Anestesia metamérica.

PAGÉS, Fidel [PAGÉS MIRAVÉ] (1886 – 1923)

Introduction of epidural anesthesia.

1921

#5703

Anaesthetics in the plastic surgery of the face and jaws.

ROWBOTHAM, Edgar Stanley (1890 – 1979) MAGILL, Sir Ivan Whiteside (1888 – 1986)

Intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization. See also Magill, I. W., Lancet, 1921, 1, 918; 1923, 2, 229.

1921

#5759

A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.

GILLIES, Sir Harold Delf (1882 – 1960)
FRY, Sir William Kelsey (1889 – 1963)
FRY, Sir William Kelsey (1889 – 1963)

Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.

1921 –1924

#37

Paulus Aegeneta [Opera] ed. J.L. Heiberg. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX. 2 vols.

PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690)
HEIBERG, Johan Ludvig (1854 – 1928)
HEIBERG, Johan Ludvig (1854 – 1928)

Standard Greek text.

1921

#10823

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

1922

#5008

A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain.

BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936)

Thomas Vicary Lecture. First published in Lancet, 1922, 1, 111-16, 165-72.

1922

#5782

Cancer of the breast and its treatment. 2nd ed.

HANDLEY, William Sampson (1872 – 1962)

Sampson Handley advanced the theory that in mammary cancer metastasis is due to extension along lymphatic vessels – “lymphatic permeation” – and not to dissemination byway of the blood stream. The book was first publi…

1922

#5630.1

Removal of intrathoracic tumours by the trans-sternal route.

DUNHILL, Sir Thomas Peel (1876 – 1957)

Dunhill’s operation for the removal of intrathoracic tumors.

1922

#7832

Di un raro caso di osteite simmetrica ereditaria degli arti inferior.

CAMURATI, M

"Camurati-Engelmann disease", a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that causes characteristic anomalies in the skeleton. It is a form of dysplasia. See No. 4395.1.

1922

#12842

Regional anesthesia: Its technic and clinical application. With a foreward by William J. Mayo.

LABAT, Gaston Louis (1877 – 1934)
LABAT, Gaston Louis (1877 – 1934)

First work in English on regional anesthesia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1923

#2252

Blood concentration changes in extensive superficial burns, and their significance for systemic treatment.

UNDERHILL, Frank Pell (1877 – 1932) & et al.

F. P. Underhill, G. L. Carrington, R. Kapsinow, and G. T. Pack made important studies on the blood concentration following burns.

1923

#3609

Living sutures in the treatment of hernia.

GALLIE, William Edward (1882 – 1959) LEMESURIER, Arthur Baker (1889 – 1982)

Gallie and LeMesurier used fascial sutures in their operation for inguinal hernia.

1923

#3030.1

Cardiotomy and valvulotomy for mitral stenosis. Experimental observations and clinical notes concerning an operated case with recovery.

CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947)
CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947)
LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)
LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)

Successful section of mitral valve for relief of mitral stenosis.

1923

#3031

Ueber Erkennung und Behandlung der Umklammerung des Herzens durch schwielige Perikarditis.

VOLHARD, Franz (1872 – 1950)
VOLHARD, Franz (1872 – 1950) SCHMIEDEN, Viktor (1874 – 1945)

First complete pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis.

1923

#4390

Nouvelle observation d’acrocéphalosyndactylie.

APERT, Eugène Charles (1868 – 1940) & et al.

With Tixier, Hue, and Kermorgant.

1923

#4391

Orthopaedic surgery.

JONES, Sir Robert (1858 – 1933) LOVETT, Robert Williamson (1859 – 1924)

Jones was a pupil of Hugh Owen Thomas and a pioneer of active surgical intervention in orthopedics. He advocated tendon transplantation, bone grafting, and other reconstructive and restorative procedures. He did much …

1923

#4432

Recurrent or habitual dislocation of the shoulder-joint.

BANKART, Arthur Sydney Blundell (1879 – 1951)

Blundell Bankart’s operation.

1923

#5705

Physiologic effects of ethylene; a new gas anesthetic.

LUCKHARDT, Arno Benedict (1885 – 1957)
LUCKHARDT, Arno Benedict (1885 – 1957) CARTER, Jay Bailey (1899 – )

Introduction of ethylene.

1923

#5706

Isoamyl ethyl barbituric acid-an anesthetic without influence on blood sugar regulation.

PAGE, Irvine Heinly (1901 – 1991)
PAGE, Irvine Heinly (1901 – 1991)

Sodium amytal described.

1923

#5760

Die Operation der atrophischen und hypertrophischen Hängebrust.

KRASKE, Hans (1893 – 1976)

Plastic operation for enlarged breasts.

1923

#11695

The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld.

NEUHOF, Harold (1885 – 1964) HIRSHFELD, Samuel

Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography.

1924

#86.3

Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.

HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)
HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922) BURKET, Walter Cleveland (1888 – 1974)

In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…

1924

#2573.1

The genetics of tissue transplantation in mammals.

LITTLE, Clarence Cook (1888 – 1971)

Little established that the homograft reaction was due to genetic differences between donor and recipient.

1924

#3016

Ein durch die Trendelenburgsche Operation geheilter Fall von Embolie der Art. pulmonalis.

KIRSCHNER, Martin (1879 – 1942)
KIRSCHNER, Martin (1879 – 1942)

First successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism, a procedure suggested by Trendelenburg in 1908 (see No. 3012).

1924

#4893

The influence of the sympathetic nervous system in the genesis of the rigidity of striated muscle in a spastic paralysis.

HUNTER, John Irvine (1898 – 1924)
HUNTER, John Irvine (1898 – 1924)

Hunter believed in the sympathetic innervation of skeletal muscle and on this assumption devised the technique of sympathetic ramisection carried out by Royle (No. 4894). Biography by M.J. Blunt, Sydney, 1985.

1924

#4894

A new operative procedure in the treatment of spastic paralysis and its experimental basis.

ROYLE, Norman Dawson (1899 – 1944)

Sympathetic ramisection. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1924, 39, 701-20.

1924

#4392

Hypertelorism. A hitherto undifferentiated congenital cranio-facial deformity.

GREIG, David Middleton (1864 – 1936)

First description of hypertelorism as a separate entity.

1924

#4392.1

The reconstruction operation for arthritis deformans of the hip-joint.

WHITMAN, Royal (1857 – 1946)

The first sustained attempt to relieve osteoarthrosis of the hip by surgical means other than fusion.

1924

#10592

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis: Experimental and clinical studies.

BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971)
CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947)
CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947)
LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)
LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)

The first successful operations on the mitral valves, published in a paper of monograph length. As Surgeon-in-Chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, under whom Beck, Cutler, and Levine worked, Harvey Cushing reported, …

1925

#4480

The evolution of orthopaedic surgery.

OSGOOD, Robert Bayley (1873 – 1956)

1925

#2253

Tannic acid in the treatment of burns.

DAVIDSON, Edward Clark (1894 – 1933)

Introduction of tannic acid in the treatment of burns.

1925

#2254

Zur Therapie schwerer Verbrennungen.

RIEHL, Gustav (1855 – 1943)
RIEHL, Gustav (1855 – 1943)

Riehl was an early advocate of blood transfusion in the treatment of shock after burns.

1925

#3017

Report of a successful case of embolectomy.

JEFFERSON, Sir Geoffrey (1886 – 1961)

First successful embolectomy in Britain.

1925

#3032

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis.

SOUTTAR, Sir Henry Sessions (1875 – 1964)

Mitral valvotomy; report of a successful case.

1925

#4895

La sympathectomie hypogastrique a-t-elle sa place dans la thérapeutique gynécologique?

COTTE, Gaston (1879 – 1951)

Presacral neurectomy.

1925

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.

1925

#4393

Bone sarcoma, an interpretation of the nomenclature used by the Committee on the Registry of Bone Sarcoma of the American College of Surgeons.

CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)
CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)

1925

#5707

A lecture on respiration in anaesthesia: Control by carbon dioxide.

HENDERSON, Yandell (1873 – 1944)
HENDERSON, Yandell (1873 – 1944)

Henderson’s important investigations on the physiology of respiration included his demonstration of the relation of acapnia to anesthesia and the recommendation that carbon dioxide inhalation be used to overcome colla…

1925

#3573.1

Die Handschrift des Schnitt- und Augenarztes Caspar Stromayr in Lindau im Bodensee: In der Lindauer Handschrift (P.1.46) vom 4. Juli 1559. Mit einer historischen Einführung und Wertung von Walter von Brunn.

STROMAYR, Caspar ( – 1566)
BRUNN, Walter Albert Ferdinand von (1876 – 1952)
BRUNN, Walter Albert Ferdinand von (1876 – 1952)

Stroymayr's manuscript was discovered in Lindau in 1909, and remained unpublished until the above edition, which reproduced his drawings in color. Like Bartisch (No. 5817) Stromayr specialized in hernia repair and eye…

1925

#7728

La correction esthétique du prolapsus mammaire par le procédé de la transposition du mamelon.

PASSOT, Raymond (1886 – 1933)

No vertical scar breast lift technique. Translated into English by Schleich et al, "The aesthetic correction of the ptotic breast by the procedure of nipple-areola transposition - a contemporary translation and commen…

1925

#9587

Practical chiropody.

RUNTING, Ernest George Virgo (1861 – 1954)

"The book reached its eighth edition in 1952, and there were seven reprints; a revised, ninth edition was published in 1956, after Runting's death, and there were several American editions as well as one in Spanish. T…

1926

#4608

A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis.

CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939) BAILEY, Percival (1892 – 1973)

From 1922 to 1925 Bailey undertook extensive pathological and histological studies of brain tumors, and based on cellular configuration, he created a classification system of thirteen categories. In 1927 he reduced th…

1926

#4273

Minor surgery of the prostate gland; a new cystoscopic instrument employing a cutting current capable of operation in a water medium.

STERN, Maxmilian (1878 – 1946)

Stern’s resectoscope.

1926

#4897

Die Operationstechnik der Hirntumoren (nach eigenen Erfahrungen).

PUUSEPP, Ludvig Martinovich (Pussep or Pousep; Людвиг Мартынович Пуссеп) (1875 – 1942)
PUUSEPP, Ludvig Martinovich (Pussep or Pousep; Людвиг Мартынович Пуссеп) (1875 – 1942)

Puusepp, an Estonian, was the first professor of neurosurgery; he was particularly notable for his method of removing cerebral tumors. The above journal was founded and edited by him, and vol. 16 (1935) is a Festschri…

1926

#5707.1

Some physical factors in the administration of gaseous ether.

MCKESSON, Elmer Isaac (1881 – 1935)

McKesson introduced the intermittent flow method.

1926

#5782.1

A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.

LANE-CLAYPON, Janet Elizabeth (1877 – 1967)
LANE-CLAYPON, Janet Elizabeth (1877 – 1967)

First modern case-control study.

1926

#7724

La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.

NOËL, Suzanne Blanche Gros (1876 – 1954)

Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.