1839 AMUSSAT, Jean Zuléma (1796 – 1856)

Recherches sur l'introduction accidentelle de l'air dans les veines, et particulièrement sur cette question: L'air en s'Introduisant spontanément par une veine blessée pendant une opération chirurgicale, peut-il causer subitement la mort?

Amussat was one of the first to draw attention to the risks of the introduction of venous air embolism in surgery. Before the introduction of anesthesia surgery was particularly rapid by necessity, and veins were ofte…

GMN 11546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13745

1846 LATHAM, Peter Mere (1789 – 1875)

Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising disease of the heart. Second edition, 2 vols.

Includes (vol. 2, pp. 373-79) a classic description of coronary thrombosis, although not using the term. The patient was Thomas Arnold, the educationist, and the report was signed by Joseph Hodgson and by S. Bucknill,…

GMN 2755.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4655

1852 KIRKES, William Senhouse (1823 – 1864)

On some of the principal effects resulting from the detachment of fibrinous deposits from the interior of the heart, and their mixture with the circulating blood.

A classic description of embolism resulting from intracardiac coagula. Reprinted in Willius & Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 474-82.

GMN 2758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4670

1856 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)

Thrombose und Embolie. Gefässentzündung und septische Infektion. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin.

Reprints of papers published between 1846 and 1853. Virchow gave the first clear description of thrombosis and embolism (see especially Beitr. exp. Path.,1846, 2,227-380). This work was translated into English by A. C…

GMN 3006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5356

1862 ZENKER, Friedrich Albert von (1825 – 1898)

Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Anatomie der Lungen.

First description of pulmonary fat embolism in man.

GMN 3007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5361

1862 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)

Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der Embolie.

Experimental study of the effects of ligation of coronary vessels.

GMN 3008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5365

1870 FELTZ, Victor Timothée (1835 – 1893)

Traité clinique et expérimental des embolies capillaires.

GMN 3009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5369

1878 HAMMER, Johann Adam (1818 – 1878)

Ein Fall von thrombotischen Verschlusse einer der Kranzarterien des Herzens.

First description of coronary thrombosis with diagnosis before death. English translation of original report, Amer. J. Cardiol, 1978, 42, 849-52.

GMN 2781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4747

1899 WELCH, William Henry (1850 – 1934)

Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821

GMN 3011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5377

1910 OBRAZTSOV, Vasili Parmenovich (1849 – 1920); STRAZHESKO, Nikolai Dmitrievich (Mykola Dmytrowytsch Straschesko) (1876 – 1952)

Zur kenntniss der Thrombose der Koronararterien des Herzens.

First complete description of coronary thrombosis, diagnosed before death and confirmed at necropsy. Reprinted in Klin. Med. (Mosk.), 1949, 27,No. 11, 15-25.

GMN 2835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3566

1912 HERRICK, James Bryan (1861 – 1954)

Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries.

Outstanding description of coronary thrombosis. Herrick was the first to describe and diagnose coronary thrombosis in a living person; he showed that sudden coronary occlusion is not necessarily fatal. Reprint in Will…

GMN 2839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3580

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 BAUER, Fritz

Fall von Embolus aortae abdominalis, Operation, Heilung.

First successful aortic embolectomy.

GMN 3014.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5401

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

1924 KIRSCHNER, Martin (1879 – 1942)

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

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

GMN 3016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5408

1929 DUCUING, Jean (1889 – )

Phlébites, thromboses et embolies post-opératoires.

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

1933 HYMAN, Albert S. (1893 – 1972); PARSONNET, Aaron E. (1889 – 1951)

The failing heart of middle life: The myocardiosis syndrome, coronary thrombosis, and angina pectoris with a section upon the medico-legal aspects of sudden death from heart disease.

"This pioneering monograph on the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease includes a detailed discussion of the recently recognized electrocardiographic features of myocardial infarction. Hyman invented a [external…

GMN 11668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13869

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

1948 WRIGHT, Irving Sherwood (1901 – 1997); ET AL

Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.

With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.

GMN 3020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5425

1951 OUDOT, Jacques (1913 – 1953)

La greffe vasculaire dans les thromboses du carrefour aortique.

Arterial homograft on aorta.

GMN 3020.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5430

1959 LINK, Karl Paul Gerhard (1901 – 1978)

The discovery of Dicumarol and its sequels.

An historical account of the discovery of the anticoagulant Warfarin by the primary investigator. The first use for this substance was rat poison. Digital facsimile from ahajournals.org at this link.

GMN 11405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13604

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