1889 ABBE, Robert (1851 – 1928)
A contribution to the surgery of the spine.
Posterior rhizotomy.
GMN 4860.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5640
1889 BENNETT, Sir William Henry (1852 – 1931)
A case in which acute spasmodic pain in the left lower extremity was completely relieved by sub-dural division of the posterior roots of certain spinal nerves, all other treatment having proved useless. Death from sudden collapse and cerebral haemorrhage on the twelfth day after the operation, at the commencement of apparent convalescence.
Posterior rhizotomy.
GMN 4861.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5649
1891 KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932)
A new operation for spasmodic wry neck, namely, division or exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head.
Spastic torticollis treated by division of spinal accessory nerve and posterior roots of first, second, and third spinal nerves.
GMN 4867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5675
1891 QUINCKE, Heinrich Irenaeus (1842 – 1922)
Die Lumbalpunction des Hydrocephalus.
Quincke popularized lumbar puncture, which he had introduced independently of Wynter and others. He used it both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He first presented his method at the German Congress of Interna…
GMN 4869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5687
1895 FÜRBRINGER, Paul Walther (1849 – 1930)
Zur klinischen Bedeutung der spinalen Punction.
Fürbringer demonstrated the diagnostic value of spinal puncture.
GMN 4873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5715
1911 GOLDTHWAIT, Joel Ernest (1866 – 1961)
The lumbo-sacral articulation. An explanation of many cases of “lumbago”, “sciatica” and paraplegia.
Goldthwait suggested that lumbago and sciatica might be due to intervertebral disc injury.
GMN 4383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5898
1911 TEACHER, John Hammond (1869 – 1930); MIDDLETON, George Stevenson (1854 – 1928)
Injury of the spinal cord due to rupture of an intervertebral disc during muscular effort.
Report of a case of “sciatica” due to rupture of an intervertebral disc.
GMN 4384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5908
1912 SPILLER, William Gibson (1863 – 1940); MARTIN, Edward (1859 – 1938)
The treatment of persistent pain of organic origin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord.
Cordotomy for the relief of intractable pain.
GMN 4883 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5781
1916 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955)
De la causalgie envisagée comme une névrite du sympathique et de son traitement par la dénudation et l’excision des plexus nerveux périartériels.
Periarterial sympathectomy.
GMN 4885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5832
1916 ELSBERG, Charles Albert (1871 – 1948)
Diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes.
Elsberg, American pioneer in neurosurgery, made valuable contributions to the surgery of the spinal cord. on tumours of the cord in 1925. His final work was Surgical diseases of the spinal cord, membranes, and nerve r…
GMN 4910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5988
1933 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955); FONTAINE, René (1899 – 1979)
Techniques des diverses sympathectomies lombaires.
Lumbar sympathectomy by the antero-lateral extraperitoneal approach.
GMN 4902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5944
1934 MIXTER, William Jason (1880 – 1958); BARR, Joseph Seaton (1901 – 1963)
Rupture of the intervertebral disc with involvement of the spinal canal.
Demonstration of the causal role of intervertebral disc herniation in sciatica.
GMN 4435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6294
