1564 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.
Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in amputations, one of h…
GMN 3668.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6937
1577 FERRARI, Ognibene (Omnibonus Ferrarius) ( – 1599)
De arte medica infantium libri quatuor. Quorum duo Priores de tuenda eorum sanitate, posteriores de curandis morbis agunt.
An early illustrated work on pediatrics. The three parts of his book deal with the management of the nurse and her milk, the care and feeding of the new-born, and diseases of children, including skin diseases, and cha…
GMN 7990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10166
1607 FABRY VON HILDEN, Wilhelm (Fabricius Hildanus) (1560 – 1624)
De combustionibus.
First book devoted entirely to burns. Fabry was the first to classify burns. Translated into English by John Steer as: Gulielm, Fabricius Hildamus, his experiments in chyrurgerie concerning combustions or burnings mad…
GMN 2245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3845
1665 HORST, Georg ( – 1688)
De siriasi.
A treatise on sunstroke.
GMN 2246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3846
1797 KENTISH, Edward ( – 1832)
An essay on burns: Principally upon those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air (or hydrogen gas)....
Digital facsimile of the 1817 edition reprinting the 1797 work and the continuation (1800): A second essay on burns : in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr. Earle, and Sir W. Farquhar, lately advanc…
GMN 10481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12674
1832 –1834 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)
Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 4 vols.
Dupuytren was born in poverty and died a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was a “shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivaled aplomb, a wonderful clinical teacher, and a good experim…
GMN 2247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7051
1842 CURLING, Thomas Blizard (1811 – 1888)
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.
GMN 3445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5486
1859 LONGMORE, Sir Thomas (1816 – 1895)
Remarks upon a tabular return (No. 1), or synopsis of sixteen cases of heat-apoplexy.
Longmore was an army surgeon in India; he gave an excellent account of heat-stroke.
GMN 2248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2769
1860 BARCLAY, Alexander (1822 – 1874)
Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.
Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.
GMN 2249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2773
1871 POLLOCK, George David (1817 – 1897)
Cases of skin-grafting and skin-transplantation.
Pollock used Reverdin’s skin-grafting technique in the treatment of burn contractures.
GMN 2248.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2772
1872 WOOD, Horatio Charles (1841 – 1920)
Thermic fever, or sunstroke.
A study of the pathology of sunstroke. Wood held the chairs of botany, therapeutics, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.
GMN 2250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2775
1887 COPELAND, William Preston (1845 – 1931)
The treatment of burns.
Introduction of the open or exposure method for the treatment of burns.
GMN 2250.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2777
1901 WILMS, Carl Max Wilhelm (1867 – 1918)
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.
GMN 2250.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2778
1903 JELLINEK, Stefan (1871 – 1968)
Elektropathologie. Die Erkrankungen durch Blitzschlag und elektrischen Starkstrom in klinischer und forensischer Darstellung.
A pioneering study of diseases and death caused by lightning and electricity. Jellinek specialized in the study of electrical accidents and their prevention. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9041
1913 BARTHE DE SANDFORT, Edmond (1853 – )
La kérithérapie (nouvelle balnéation thermocireuse).
Treatment of burns with ambrine (paraffin-resin solution); keritherapy.
GMN 2251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2779
1923 UNDERHILL, Frank Pell (1877 – 1932); ET AL
Blood concentration changes in extensive superficial burns, and their significance for systemic treatment.
F. P. Underhill, G. L. Carrington, R. Kapsinow, and G. T. Pack made important studies on the blood concentration following burns.
GMN 2252 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2782
1925 DAVIDSON, Edward Clark (1894 – 1933)
Tannic acid in the treatment of burns.
Introduction of tannic acid in the treatment of burns.
GMN 2253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2784
1925 RIEHL, Gustav (1855 – 1943)
Zur Therapie schwerer Verbrennungen.
Riehl was an early advocate of blood transfusion in the treatment of shock after burns.
GMN 2254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2787
1927 GOLDBLATT, David (1894 – )
Contribution to the study of burns, their classification and treatment.
Goldblatt’s classification of burns.
GMN 2255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2790
1930 PACK, George Thomas (1898 – 1969); DAVIS, Andrew Hobson (1899 – 1981)
Burns. Types, pathology and management.
GMN 2256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2796
1932 JELLINEK, Stefan (1871 – 1968)
Elektrische Verletzungen. Klinik und Histopathologie.
Jellinek specialized in the study of injuries and deaths caused by electricity, and their prevention.
GMN 2257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2797
1933 ALDRICH, Robert Henry (1902 – )
The role of infection in burns; the theory and treatment with special reference to gentian violet.
Introduction of gentian violet in the treatment of burns.
GMN 2258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2798
1935 BETTMAN, Adalbert Goodman (1883 – 1964)
The tannic acid–silver nitrate treatment of burns: a method of minimizing shock and toxemia and shortening convalescence.
Bettman introduced the tannic acid-silver nitrate method of treating burns.
GMN 2259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2799
1940 BUNYAN, John (1907 – 1983)
Envelope method of treating burns.
Bunyan bag.
GMN 2260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2801
1942 HARKINS, Henry Nelson (1905 – 1967)
The treatment of burns.
Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.
GMN 2261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2803
1949 BLOCKER, Truman Graves Jr. (1809 – 1984); BLOCKER, Virginia Howard Irvine (1913 – 2005)
The Texas City disaster; a survey of 3,000 casualties.
After ships anchored in Texas City exploded in 1947, injuring and burning some 3,000 persons, the Blockers published a survey of the casualties. For this and other research studies involving trauma and burns the Block…
GMN 7128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9295
