1884 KRÖNLEIN, Rudolph Ulrich (1847 – 1910)
Ueber Lungenchirurgie.
Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.
GMN 3174.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4162
1889 KÜSTER, Ernst Georg Ferdinand von (1839 – 1930)
Ueber die Grundsätze der Behandlung von Eiterungen in starrwandigen Höhlen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Empyems der Pleura.
First thoracotomy for empyema.
GMN 3177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4173
1890 SCHEDE, Max (1844 – 1902)
Die Behandlung der Empyeme.
Schede introduced the method of extensive rib resection for the treatment of empyema.
GMN 3177.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4176
1893 FOWLER, George Ryerson (1848 – 1906)
A case of thoracoplasty for the removal of a large cicatricial fibrous growth from the interior of the chest, the result of an old empyema.
First thoracoplasty.
GMN 3179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4188
1893 LOWSON, David (1850 – 1907)
A case of pneumonectomy.
Partial lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5023
1894 DELORME, Edmond (1847 – 1929)
Nouveau traitement des empyèmes chroniques.
The procedure of decortication of the lung for treatment of chronic empyema was introduced by Delorme. For his later work on the subject, see Congr. franç. Chir., 1896, 10, 379.
GMN 3180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4192
1897 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)
Chirurgie du poumon en particulier dans les cavernes tuberculeuses et la gangrène pulmonaire.
Describes (p. 31) first cure of tuberculosis by removal of lung apex.
GMN 3228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3841
1906 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
On some points in the surgery of the lung.
Removal of left lung for tuberculosis, April 24, 1895. The patient was alive in 1940; see Bowman, Life and teaching of Sir William Macewen (London, 1942), p. 344.
GMN 3229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3850
1908 BRAUER, Ludolph (1865 – 1951)
Indications du traitement chirurgical de la tuberculose pulmonaire.
First radical thoracoplasty.
GMN 3231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3852
1908 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.
Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).
GMN 3012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5386
1909 KÖRTE, Werner (1853 – 1937)
Ueber Lungenresektion wegen bronchiektatischer Cavernen.
Körte was the first successfully to remove bronchiectatic lobes.
GMN 3187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4213
1910 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)
Gangrène pulmonaire ouverte dans les bronches et traitée par décollement pleuro-pariétal, et greffe d’une masse lipomateuse entre la plèvre décollée et les espaces intercostaux.
Tuffier’s method of extrapleural pneumolysis.
GMN 3191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4227
1911 WILMS, Carl Max Wilhelm (1867 – 1918)
Eine neue Methode zur Verengung des Thorax bei Lungentuberkulose.
Wilms’s operation.
GMN 3232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3853
1913 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)
Die Beeinflüssung von Lungenerkrankungen durch künstliche Lähmung des Zwerchfells (Phrenikotomie).
Phrenicotomy in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3855
1916 JACOBAEUS, Hans Christian (1879 – 1937)
Endopleurale Operationen unter der Leitung des Thorakoskops.
Jacobaeus introduced adhesion-section with the cautery, to secure collapse in artificial pneumothorax.
GMN 3235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3856
1920 –1925 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)
Die Chirurgie der Brustorgane. Zugleich zweite Auflage der Technik der Thoraxchirurgie. 2 vols.
Abridged English translation, Baltimore, 1937.
GMN 3195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4255
1922 DUNHILL, Sir Thomas Peel (1876 – 1957)
Removal of intrathoracic tumours by the trans-sternal route.
Dunhill’s operation for the removal of intrathoracic tumors.
GMN 5630.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7220
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 BRUNN, Harold (1874 – 1950)
Surgical principles underlying one-stage lobectomy.
Brunn’s one-stage lobectomy.
GMN 3202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4301
1931 NISSEN, Rudolph (1896 – 1981)
Exstirpation eines ganzen Lungenflügels.
Removal of entire bronchiectatic lung; successful.
GMN 3203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4311
1932 SHENSTONE, Norman Strahan (1881 – 1970); JANES, Robert Meredith (1894 – 1966)
Experiences in pulmonary lobectomy.
Introduction of the hilar tourniquet in pulmonary surgery.
GMN 3203.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4317
1933 GRAHAM, Evarts Ambrose (1883 – 1957); SINGER, Jacob Jesse (1882 – 1954)
Successful removal of entire lung for carcinoma of the bronchus.
First reported case: April 5, 1933.
GMN 3205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4326
1933 LILIENTHAL, Howard (1861 – 1946)
Pneumonectomy for sarcoma of the lung in a tuberculous patient.
Total pneumonectomy.
GMN 3207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4330
1935 FREEDLANDER, Samuel Oscar (1893 – 1971)
Lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis. Report of a case.
The modern era in lung resection for tuberculosis begins with the work of Freedlander. He performed the first planned lobectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3859
1935 SEMB, Carl Boye (1895 – 1971)
Thoracoplasty with extrafascial apicolysis.
“Semb’s operation”.
GMN 3239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3860
1939 CHURCHILL, Edward Delos (1895 – 1972); BELSEY, Ronald Herbert Robert (1910 – 2007)
Segmental pneumonectomy in bronchiectasis. The lingula segment of the left upper lobe.
GMN 3211.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4350
