1786 HOME, Sir Everard (1756 – 1832)
An account of Mr. Hunter’s method of performing the operation for the popliteal aneurism.
First description of John Hunter’s method of treating popliteal aneurysm. This consisted in a single ligature of the artery at a distance high in the healthy tissues. Recorded by his brother-in law. See also Trans. So…
GMN 2925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4935
1790 KAST, Thomas (1755 – 1820)
An account of an aneurism in the thigh, perfectly cured by the operation.
The first femoral ligation reported in America, and the first paper on a surgical topic to be published in an American medical periodical.
GMN 2925.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4938
1798 –1799 BICHAT, Marie François Xavier (1771 – 1802); DESAULT, Pierre-Joseph (1744 – 1795)
Oeuvres chirurgicales de P. J. Desault....ou tableau de sa doctrine & de sa pratique dans le traitement des maladies externes. Ouvrage publié par Xav. Bichat, son èlève. 3 vols.
Desault was one of the first professors at the École Pratique de Chirurgie, Paris. He made many suggestions regarding the treatment of fractures and dislocations and is one of the founders of modern vascular surgery. …
GMN 2927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7007
1801 –1808 BELL, John (1763 – 1820)
The principles of surgery. 3 vols.
John Bell, the Scottish anatomist and brother of Charles Bell, is regarded as a founder of surgical anatomy. He was first to ligate the gluteal artery (Vol. I, pp, 421-26), and tied the common carotid and internal ili…
GMN 2926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7011
1809 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
A case of aneurism of the carotid artery.
Cooper ligated the common carotid artery on Nov. 1, 1805; the patient died, but a second case (June 22, 1808) proved successful. (See also No. 2955).
GMN 2929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4946
1809 ABERNETHY, John (1764 – 1831)
Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases.
A pupil of John Hunter, Abernethy became a leading surgeon in London. He was most industrious, and it is said that not even on his wedding day did he fail to give his usual daily lecture at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.…
GMN 2928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7021
1811 DORSEY, John Syng (1783 – 1818)
Inguinal aneurism cured by tying the external iliac artery in the pelvis.
First successful ligation of the external iliac artery in America (Aug. 19, 1811).
GMN 2930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4952
1811 TRAVERS, Benjamin (1783 – 1858)
A case of aneurism by anastomosis in the orbit, cured by the ligature of the common carotid artery.
GMN 2931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4961
1812 GOODLAD, William
Case of inguinal aneurism cured by tying the external iliac artery.
Goodlad successfully ligated the external iliac on July 29, 1811. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 2932 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4963
1813 TRAVERS, Benjamin (1783 – 1858)
Observations upon the ligature of arteries, and the causes of secondary hemorrhage; with a suggestion of a new method of employing the ligature in cases of aneurism.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14511
1814 POST, Philip Wright (1766 – 1828)
A case of carotid aneurism successfully treated.
Post, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at Columbia College, New York, was the first in America to ligate the common carotid artery for aneurysmal disease.
GMN 2934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4964
1814 STEVENS, William (1786 – 1868)
A case of aneurism of the gluteal artery, cured by tying the internal iliac.
First successful ligation of the internal iliac, Dec. 27, 1812. The patient died in 1822 and an account of the autopsy is given by Richard Owen in Med.-chir. Trans.,1830, 16,219-35.
GMN 2935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4965
1815 COLLES, Abraham (1773 – 1843)
On the operation of tying the subclavian artery.
Colles tied the subclavian artery in 1811 and again in 1813. Garrison reminded us that Colles is credited with the first successful ligation of the innominate artery in Europe, but was unable to verify this. The paper…
GMN 2936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4967
1816 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)
Case of a wound of the peroneal artery successfully treated by a ligature.
On July 2, 1815, Guthrie successfully ligated the peroneal artery of a German soldier wounded at the Battle of Waterloo.
GMN 2937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4969
1816 SODEN, John Smith (1780 – 1863)
Case of inguinal aneurism cured by tying the external iliac artery
GMN 2938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4971
1817 POST, Philip Wright (1766 – 1828)
Case of brachial aneurism, cured by tying the subclavian artery above the clavicle.
Post was the first successfully to ligate the subclavian artery outside the scaleni (Sept. 8, 1817).
GMN 2939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4972
1817 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)
Memoria sulla legatura delle principali arterie degli arti.
GMN 2940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4974
1818 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
Reflections on securing in a ligature the arteria innominata, to which is added a case in which the artery was tied by a surgical operation.
First ligation of the innominate artery, May 11, 1818. The artery was tied off half an inch below its bifurcation, and the patient suffered no respiratory or circulatory embarrassment. The ligature separated from the …
GMN 2942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4979
1818 –1819 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841); TRAVERS, Benjamin (1783 – 1858)
Surgical essays. 2 vols.
Cooper, the pupil and great interpreter of Hunter, was the most popular surgeon in London during the Regency. In 1802 he gained the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Travers was surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital, and …
GMN 2941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7037
1819 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)
Account of the tying of the subclavian artery.
Dupuytren successfully ligated the subclavian artery on March 7, 1819.
GMN 2943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4980
1820 GIBSON, William (1788 – 1868)
Case of a wound of the common iliac artery.
Gibson was the first to ligate the common iliac, July 27, 1812.
GMN 2944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4982
1824 COGSWELL, Mason Fitch (1761 – 1830)
Account of an operation for the extirpation of a tumour in which a ligature was applied to the carotid artery.
Cogswell ligated the primitive carotid on Nov. 4, 1803.
GMN 2945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4984
1825 MACGILL, William D. (1802 – 1833)
Account of a case in which both carotids were successfully tied.
In 1823 Macgill successfully ligated in continuity both primitive carotid arteries in the same subject within a month. He was the first American to do so.
GMN 2946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4986
1826 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)
Observation sur un cas de ligature de l’artère iliaque externe.
Successful ligation of the external iliac, Oct. 16, 1815.
GMN 2947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4988
1827 KEY, Charles Aston (1793 – 1849)
Case of axillary aneurism successfully treated by tying the subclavian artery.
In 1823 Key successfully ligated the subclavian artery for aneurysm at the axilla.
GMN 2948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4990
1827 WARDROP, James (1782 – 1869)
Case of carotid aneurism successfully treated by tying the artery above the aneurismal tumor.
Wardrop successfully treated aneurysm of the carotid artery by distal ligation, a procedure suggested by Pierre Brasdor (see No. 2951). Wardrop expanded this paper into a book: On aneurism, and its cure by a new opera…
GMN 2949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4991
1827 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
Successful ligature of the common iliac artery.
First successful ligation of the common iliac.
GMN 2950 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4994
1828 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
Aneurism of the arteria innominata involving the subclavian and the root of the carotid; successfully treated by tying the carotid artery.
First application in the United States of the Pierre Brasdor (1721-97) operative technique by distal ligation. Second report, 1830, 6, 532-34.
GMN 2951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4995
1830 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)
On the diseases and injuries of arteries, with the operations required for their cure.
"Guthrie's experiences during the Peinsular War enabled him to make considerable improvements in practical surgery. These included introducing the practice of ligaturing both ends of a divided artery.... Guthrie made …
GMN 11604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13804
1832 MANEC, Pierre Joseph (1799 – 1884)
Traité theorique et pratique de la ligature des artères.
Manec was head of anatomy at the Facultè de Médecine de Paris and a surgeon at the Salpetrière. He wrote text of his atlas on ligations of arteries in the first person based upon his experience performing the operatio…
GMN 14180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16495
1833 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
Case of aneurism of the right subclavian artery, in which that vessel was tied within the scaleni muscles.
In his day Mott was the ablest exponent of vascular surgery in the U.S.A. This was the first attempt in America to ligate the subclavian within the scaleni muscles. The procedure had been tried at least twice previous…
GMN 2953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4997
1836 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
Case of a femoral aneurism, for which the external iliac artery was tied, with an account of the preparation of the limb, dissected at the extirpation of eighteen years.
The artery was tied in 1808, and the patient died in 1826.
GMN 2954 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5001
1836 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
Account of the first successful operation, performed on the carotid artery, for aneurism, in the year 1808; with the post-mortem examination in 1821.
See No. 2929.
GMN 2955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5018
1836 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
Some experiments and observations on tying the carotid and vertebral arteries, and the pneumo-gastric, phrenic, and sympathetic nerves.
GMN 2956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5019
1836 KEY, Charles Aston (1793 – 1849)
Femoral aneurism successfully treated by a ligature of the external iliac artery.
Successful ligation of external iliac artery for femoral aneurysm, 1822.
GMN 2957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5022
1837 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
A case of aneurism of either the ischiatic or gluteal artery, in which the right internal iliac artery was successfully tied.
Second successful reported ligation of the internal iliac artery in the United States.
GMN 2958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5025
1842 –1843 TWITCHELL, Amos (1781 – 1850)
Gun-shot wound of the face and neck; ligature of the carotid artery.
First successful ligature of the carotid artery (for secondary haemorrhage) Oct. 18, 1807, eight months before Sir Astley Cooper (No. 2929). Published 35 years after the event, this paper may set some kind of record f…
GMN 2959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5028
1858 BUCK, Gurdon (1807 – 1877)
Case of aneurism of the femoral artery for which ligatures were successively applied to the femoral, profunda, external and common iliac.
GMN 2960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5029
1861 –1867 KEHR, Johannes Otto (Hans) (1862 – 1916)
Der erste Fall von erfolgreicher Unterbindung der Art. hepatica propria gegen Aneurysma.
Successful ligation of the hepatic artery.
GMN 2968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5066
1862 SYME, James (1799 – 1870)
Case of iliac aneurism.
Syme treated a case of iliac aneurysm by opening the sac and ligating the common iliac and the internal and external iliac arteries.
GMN 2961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5030
1864 PARKER, Willard (1800 – 1884)
Ligature of the left subclavian inside the scalenus muscle, together with common carotid and vertebral arteries for subclavian aneurism haemorrhage from the distal end of the subclavian; death on 42nd day.
GMN 2962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5033
1866 SMYTH, Andrew Woods (1832 – 1916)
Successful operation for subclavian aneurism.
First successful ligation of the innominate artery, 1864. A report on the condition of the patient in 1869 is given in New Orleans J. Med.,1869, 22,464-69.
GMN 2963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5037
1869 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912)
Observations on ligature of arteries on the antiseptic system.
Lister evolved a carbolized catgut ligature, better than any previously produced. He was able to cut short the ends of his ligature, closing the wound tightly and eliminating the necessity for bringing the ends of lig…
GMN 2964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5039
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
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
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
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
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
