1554 FERNEL, Jean François (1497 – 1558)

Medicina. 3 pts.

The first systematic treatise on pathology, which also introduced the names for the sciences of pathology and physiology. In the second part, entitled “Pathologia”, Fernel provided the first systematic essay on the su…

GMN 2271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2838

1624 SAPORTA, Antoine de ( – 1573); GRAS, Henri ( – 1665)

De tumoribus praeter naturam libri quinque. Ex instructissima Bibliotheca Ranchiniana eruti, & publici iuris facti, cura & studio Henric Gras...Accessit Ioannis Saportae Tractatus de lue venerea.

IN 1554 Saporta gave the earliest description of an aortic aneurysm. Many years after Saporta's death Henri Gras of Lyon discovered the manuscript of Saporta's book, and edited it for publication. Digital facsimile fr…

GMN 2971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5080

1658 WEPFER, Johann Jacob (1620 – 1695)

Observationes anatomicae, ex cadaveribus eorum, quos sustulit apoplexia.

Wepfer showed apoplexy to be a result of hemorrhage into the brain. He described four cases, with clinical and post mortem findings. He preceded Willis (No. 1378) in describing the “circle of Willis”. Partial English …

GMN 2703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/359

1667 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); WELSCH, Georg Hieronymous (Velschius) (1624 – 1677); GASSER, Achilles Pirmin (1505 – 1577); RUMLER, Johannes Udalricus

Vesalius: Una cum D. Bartholomaei Velseri literis, Tuas, doctissime et mihi amicissime D. Achilles, accepi.... IN: Welsch, G. H., Sylloge curationum et observationum medicinalum centurias vi complectens (J. U. Rumler, Observationes medicae e bibliotheca Georgi Hieronymi Velschii, cum eius dem notis LXXXXI, p. 47).

In 1555 Vesalius was the first to diagnose an aneurysm of the thoracic and abdominal aorta in a living person. Vesalius wrote this consilium to Achilles Pirmin Gasser on July 18, 1557; it was not published until more …

GMN 2972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5096

1705 VIEUSSENS, Raymond (1641 – 1715)

Novum vasorum corporis humani systema.

Vieussens was among the first to describe the morbid changes in mitral stenosis, the throbbing pulse in aortic insufficiency, and the first correctly to describe the structure of the left ventricle, the course of the …

GMN 2729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4484

1728 LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)

De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus.

Lancisi noted the frequency of cardiac aneurysm and showed the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitation, violent emotions, and excess as causes of aneurysms. He was the first to describe cardiovascular syphilis. La…

GMN 2973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5101

1757 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)

The history of an aneurysm of the aorta, with some remarks on aneurysms in general.

First recorded case of arteriovenous aneurysm.

GMN 2974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5106

1762 NICHOLLS, Frank (1699 – 1778)

Observations concerning the body of his late Majesty, October 26, 1760.

Nicholls was the first to describe dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, the patient being King George II, to whom he was physician from 1753-60. Nicholls was also the first to give a correct description of the mode of pr…

GMN 2734.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4518

1804 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)

Sull’aneurisma: riflessioni ed osservazioni anatomico-chirurgiche.

Scarpa distinguished true from false aneurysms. He introduced the concept of arteriosclerosis. English translations, Edinburgh, 1808 and 1819. Digital facsimile from Heidelberg University Library at this link.

GMN 2975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5112

1809 BURNS, Allan (1781 – 1813)

Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart.

Burns described endocarditis and reported three cases of mitral stenosis. He recognized the thrill present in the latter condition and seems to have understood the mechanism of a cardiac murmur. He also described unil…

GMN 2738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8654

1815 HODGSON, Joseph (1788 – 1869)

A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins. 1 vol. and atlas.

Includes the best illustrations of aneurysms and of aortic valvular endocarditis so far published, and the first description on non-sacculated dilatation of the aortic arch (“Hodgson’s disease”).

GMN 2741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4588

1818 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)

Anéurisme à l’artère poplitée par la compression.

Dupuytren was the first successfully to treat aneurysm by compression.

GMN 2976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5119

1826 PORTER, William Henry (1790 – 1861)

Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea.

Porter was Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The above includes a description of “Porter’s sign”, tracheal tugging in aortic aneurysm.

GMN 3254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3920

1831 VELPEAU, Alfred Armand Louis Marie (1795 – 1867)

Mémoire sur la piqûre ou l’acupuncture des artères dans le traitement des anévrismes.

First attempt at operative treatment of aneurysm.

GMN 2977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5123

1832 HOPE, James (1801 – 1841)

A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels.

Hope did much to advance the knowledge of heart murmurs, valvular disease, and aneurysm; he described the second sound of the left side of the sternum in mitral stenosis as “altered” – losing its short, flat clear sou…

GMN 2747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4618

1843 PEACOCK, Thomas Bevill (1812 – 1882)

Cases.

An important account of dissecting aneurysm. Peacock collected all previously published cases and added a few of his own to a total of 19.

GMN 2977.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5129

1847 BELLINGHAM, O’Bryen (1805 – 1857)

Observations on aneurism, and its treatment by compression.

Bellingham introduced the “Dublin method” of treating aneurysm by slow compression.

GMN 2978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5133

1848 DONDERS, Frans Cornelis (1818 – 1889); JANSEN, Jan Hissink (1816 – 1885)

Untersuchungen über die Natur der krankhaften Veränderungen der Arterienwände, die als Ursachen der spontanen Aneurysmen zu betrachten sind.

GMN 2979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5140

1864 MOORE, Charles Hewitt (1821 – 1870); MURCHISON, Charles (1830 – 1879)

On a new method of procuring the consolidation of fibrin in certain incurable aneurisms.

Moore and Murchison introduced the method of treating aneurysm by passing wire into the aneurysmal sac.

GMN 2980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5146

1868 RASMUSSEN, Fritz Valdemar (1833 – 1877)

Om Haemoptyse navnlig den lethale, i anatomisk og klinisk Henseende.

Tuberculous aneurysm of the lung (“Rasmussen’s aneurysm”). English translation in Edinb.med.J.,1868, 14,385-401, 486-503; 1869, 15,97-104, 228-36.

GMN 2981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5154

1871 QUINCKE, Heinrich Irenaeus (1842 – 1922)

Ein Fall von Aneurysma der Leberarterie.

Quincke observed aneurysm of the hepatic artery in 1870.

GMN 2982 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5157

1873 REEVES, Charles Evans

Heart studies in Australia, with observations on aneurism of the aorta.

The first book on heart disease written by an Australian physician and published in Australia.

GMN 11749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13949

1876 WELCH, Francis Henry (1839 – 1910)

On aortic aneurism in the army and the conditions associated with it.

Welch, an Army surgeon, supported the theory of a causal connexion between syphilis and aneurysm.

GMN 2983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5160

1887 EPPINGER, Hans, senior (1846 – 1916)

Pathogenese (Histogenese und Aetiologie) der Aneurysmen einschliesslich des Aneurysma equi verminosum.

GMN 2984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5167

1888 MATAS, Rudolph (1860 – 1957)

Traumatic aneurism of the left brachial artery. Failure of direct and indirect pressure; ligation of the artery immediately above tumor; return of pulsation on the tenth day; ligation immediately below tumor; failure to arrest pulsation; incision and partial excision of sac; recovery.

First aneurysmorrhaphy, April 6, 1888. See also Trans. Amer. surg.Ass.,1902, 20,396-434.

GMN 2985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5171

1894 –1896 GULL, Sir William Withey (1816 – 1890)

A collection of the published writings. 2 vols.

Gull, one of the best clinicians of his time, spent most of his working life at Guy’s Hospital. He described the spinal lesion of tabes and left an important account of aneurysm. His best works are his description of …

GMN 2232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3794

1895 DÖHLE, Karl Gottfried Paul (1855 – 1928)

Ueber Aortenerkrankung bei Syphilitischen und deren Beziehung zur Aneurysmenbildung.

Döhle clearly defined a specific syphilitic lesion of the aorta as a prerequisite of aortic aneurysm.

GMN 2985.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5176

1897 CHURTON, Thomas (1839 – 1926)

Multiple aneurysms of the pulmonary artery.

Churton was the first to recognize this condition at necropsy.

GMN 2986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5179

1899 HELLER, Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf (1840 – 1913)

Die Aortensyphilis als Ursache von Aneurysmen.

Heller established the fact that syphilis is a cause of aortic aneurysm.

GMN 2987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5184

1926 BABCOCK, William Wayne (1872 – 1963)

A new treatment of thoracic aneurysm.

Babcock’s operation for thoracic aneurysm. See also Amer. J. Surg.,1932, 16,401-07.

GMN 2988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5188

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

1930 SCHMIDT, Max (1898 – )

Intracranial aneurysms.

Temporal arteritis is first described in Case 24 (p. 532). Schmidt’s paper also appeared in Bibl. Laeger, 1930, 122,269 (Case 24, p. 320). Temporal arteritis was also described as a new condition by B. T. Horton, T. B…

GMN 2919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4904

1931 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)

Erfolgreiche operative Beseitigung eines Aneurysma der rechten Herzkammer.

First successful surgical intervention in cardiac aneurysm.

GMN 2990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5193

1939 SMITH, Harry Leroy (1887 – ); HORTON, Bayard Taylor (1895 – 1980)

Arteriovenous fistula of the lung associated with polycythemia vera: report of a case in which the diagnosis was made clinically.

GMN 2991 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5198

1942 HEPBURN, John (1888 – ); DAUPHINEE, James Arnold (1903 – 1983)

Successful removal of hemangioma of the lung followed by the disappearance of polycythemia.

First successful excision of arteriovenous aneurysm of the lung.

GMN 2992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5249

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

1948 POPPE, John Karl (1911 – 2012)

Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.

GMN 2993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5273

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

1955 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016); MAHAFFEY, D. E.

Total excision of the aortic arch for aneurysm.

Total excision and replacement by polyvinyl sponge (Ivalon) prosthesis.

GMN 2993.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5283