1891 JASSINOWSKY, Alexander (1864 – )

Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Gefässnaht.

Jassinowsky experimented with arterial sutures on animals. His thesis, Die Arteriennaht: Eine experimentell-chirurgische Studie, Dorpat, 1889, was an experimental-surgical study of the subject.

GMN 2908.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4871

1891 BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936); EDMUNDS, Walter (1850 – 1930)

A treatise on the ligation of the great arteries in continuity.

Includes Ballance’s scale of measurement of caliber of arteries.

GMN 2965 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5042

1892 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

Ligation of the first portion of the left subclavian artery and excision of a subclavio-axillary aneurism.

First successful ligation of the left subclavian artery. This was the first “successful ligation of the first part of either subclavian artery and the first one of complete extirpation of such an aneurysm” (MacCallum)…

GMN 2966 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5043

1896 MOORE, William (Jerry) (1859 – 1927)

The operative treatment of varicose veins, with especial reference to a modification of Trendelenburg’s operation.

Moore’s operation of high resection of the saphenous vein for treatment of varicosities.

GMN 2998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5310

1897 MURPHY, John Benjamin (1857 – 1916)

Resection of arteries and veins injured in continuity – end to end suture – experimental and clinical research.

Successful suture of femoral artery, 1896. This was one of the earliest end-to-end anastomoses of arteries ever performed.

GMN 2967 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5046

1899 DÖRFLER, Julius

Ueber Arteriennaht.

All-layer intima-to-intima arterial anastomosis.

GMN 2908.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4873

1902 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944)

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.

GMN 2909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4877

1906 GOYANES CAPDEVILA, José (1876 – 1964)

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.

GMN 3025.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5487

1907 MUNRO, John Cummings (1858 – 1910)

Ligation of the ductus arteriosus.

Munro was first to suggest the feasibility of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus.

GMN 3025.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5492

1908 SCHIASSI, Benedetto (1869 – )

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.

GMN 2999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5313

1908 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)

Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.

Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).

GMN 3012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5386

1909 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

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.

GMN 2969 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5069

1911 MOSNY, Ernest (1861 – 1918); DUMONT, J

Embolie fémorale au cours d’un rétrécissement mitral pur. Arteriotomie. Guérison.

First successful embolectomy; operation carried out by G. Labey, November 16, 1911.

GMN 3013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5394

1912 GUTHRIE, Charles Claude (1880 – 1963)

Blood-vessel surgery and its applications.

This book describes Guthrie’s pioneer work in tissue and organ transplantation.

GMN 5756.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6669

1913 JEGER, Ernest

Die Chirurgie der Blutgefässe und des Herzens.

Jeger was the first to advocate the bypass principle for management of peripheral aneurysms.

GMN 2915.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4892

1913 KEY, Einar Samuel Henrik (1872 – 1954)

Ein Fall operierter Embolie der Arteria femoralis.

Key performed his first successful embolectomy on December 4, 1912, and reported it to a meeting of the Svenska Läkaresällskapet on January 28, 1913. See also his review in Ergebn. Chir. Orthop.,1929, 22,1-94.

GMN 3014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5397

1913 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931)

Traumatic lipaemia and fatty embolism.

Classic clinical description of pulmonary fat embolism.

GMN 3015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5405

1913 BERNHEIM, Bertram Moses (1880 – 1958)

Surgery of the vascular system.

Bernheim was a pupil of William Halsted. His work includes 53 illustrations by James Didusch, a protegé of Max Broedel. "The depict the innovative vascular procedures developed by Carrel, halsted, Matas, and Bernheim …

GMN 11550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13749

1916 LINSER, Paul (1871 – 1963)

Ueber die konservative Behandlung der Varicen.

Injection treatment of varicose veins was introduced by Linser.

GMN 3000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5316

1921 VAUGHAN, George Tully (1859 – 1948)

Ligation (partial occlusion) of the abdominal aorta for aneurism.

First successful ligation of the abdominal aorta.

GMN 2970 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5073

1925 JEFFERSON, Sir Geoffrey (1886 – 1961)

Report of a successful case of embolectomy.

First successful embolectomy in Britain.

GMN 3017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5410

1929 BABCOCK, William Wayne (1872 – 1963)

Operative decompression of aortic aneurysm by carotid-jugular anastomosis.

Babcock’s operation for aortic aneurysm.

GMN 2989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5191

1929 DUCUING, Jean (1889 – )

Phlébites, thromboses et embolies post-opératoires.

GMN 3018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5412

1937 BEST, Charles Herbert (1899 – 1978); MURRAY, Donald Walter Gordon (1894 – 1976); ET AL

Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…

GMN 3019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5417

1944 ALEXANDER, John (1891 – 1954); BYRON, Francis X.

Aortectomy for thoracic aneurysm.

Resection of saccular aneurysm of thoracic aorta.

GMN 2992.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5270

1947 SANTOS, João Alfonso Cid dos (1907 – 1975)

Sur la désobstruction des thromboses artérielles anciennes.

In 1946 Santos removed a thrombus and atheroma plaque from an artery in order to unblock it, and, using the knowledge acquired from Gordon Murray, placed the patient on heparin in order to avoid re-thrombosis. Called …

GMN 3019.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5421

1949 KUNLIN, Jean (1904 – 1991)

Le traitement de l’artérite oblitérante parla greffe veineuse.

Kunlin, an associate of R. Leriche, first reported the use of a bypass venous graft for femoropopliteal occlusive arterial disease.

GMN 2924.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4925

1951 DUBOST, Charles (1914 – 1991); ET AL

A propos du traitement des anévrysmes de l’aorte. Ablation de l’anévrysme. Rétablissement de la continuité par greffe d’aorte humaine conservée.

First successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm and insertion of a homologous graft. With M. Allary and N. Oeconomos.

GMN 2993.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5279

1960 JACOBSON, Julius H. (1927 – ); SUAREZ, Ernesto Luis (1932 – 2017)

Microsurgery in anastomosis of small vessels.

First demonstration of the value of the operating microscope in microsurgery.

GMN 3005.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5334

1963 FOGARTY, Thomas J. (1934 – )

A method for extraction of arterial emboli and thrombi.

Introduction of the balloon catheter in arterial embolectomy. With J. J. Cranley, R. J. Krause, E. S. Strasser and C. D. Hafner.

GMN 3020.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5435

1986 LAUFMAN, Harold (1912 – 2010)

The veins. Edited by Harold Laufman.

Reprints classic papers, some translated into English for the first time, dealing with the surgical anatomy of the venous system, diagnostic tests for venous disease, varicose veins, and thromboembolic disease, among …

GMN 12356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14580

1989 FRIEDMAN, Stephen G.

A history of vascular surgery.

Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

GMN 10172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12361

1992 BARKER, Wiley Franklin (1919 – 2013)

Clio: The arteries.The development of ideas in arterial surgery.

Reprints several dozen classic papers with commentary.

GMN 12329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14553