1490 LANFRANC OF MILAN, Guido [Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, Lanfrancus Mediolanensis] (1250 – 1306); YVOIRE, Guillaume (1450 – 1500)
La chirurgie da Lanfranc traduit du latin par Guillaume Yvoire.
Lanfranc, the founder of French surgery, was a pupil of William of Salicet. He enjoyed a great reputation for his lecturing and bedside teaching. His Chirurgia magna was completed in 1296. According to Hirsch and othe…
GMN 5553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6866
1498 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); ROGER OF SALERNO, (Rogerius Salernitanus, Frugard, Frugardi, Roggerio Frugardo, Rüdiger Frutgard, Roger of Parma) (1140 – 1195); LANFRANC OF MILAN, Guido [Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, Lanfrancus Mediolanensis] (1250 – 1306); BERTAPAGLIA, Leonardo (1380 – 1463); BRUNO DA LONGOBURGO (1200 – 1286); CASTELLI, Bonaventura (Bonaventura de Castello) (1300 – 1353); ROLANDO DA PARMA, (Rolandus Parmensis) (1220 – )
Chirurgia. Add: Brunus Longoburgensis: Chirurgia magna et minor; Bonaventura de Castello: Recepta aquae balnei de Porrecta; Theodoricus Cerviensis: Chirurgia; Rolandus: Libellus de chirurgia; Lanfrancus Mediolanensis: Chirurgia; Rogerius: Practica; Leonardus Bertapalia: Recollectae super quarto libro Avicennae.
This late 15th century edition of the surgery of Guy de Chauliac also contained the first printed editions of various lesser-known medieval surgeries such as those by Bruno da Longoburgo and Leonardo Bertapaglia. It a…
GMN 12925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15172
1518 BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460 – 1530)
Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei.
The first separate treatise on head wounds and their surgical treatment. Berengario described several types of skull fractures and grouped the resulting lesions according to their symptoms, citing the relation between…
GMN 4850.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5578
1561 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
La méthode curative des playes, & fractures de la teste humaine.
Written after the death of Paré’s patient, Henri II, who was struck in the eye by the shaft of a lance at a tournament in celebration of the marriage of Philip, King of Spain, with Elizabeth of France. Paré discusses …
GMN 4850.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5583
1567 ARIAS DE BENEVIDES, Pedro (1505 – )
Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.
Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…
GMN 9053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11232
1760 POTT, Percivall (1714 – 1788)
Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, etc.
This book, which showed Pott’s extensive knowledge of surgical literature, systematized the treatment of head injuries. It shows what a variety of injuries of the head could be sustained even before the advent of the …
GMN 4850.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5590
1781 VIGILIIS VON CREUTZENFELD, Stephan Hieronymus de (1750 – 1789)
Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols.
Fulton (No. 6785) points out that this work contains the “most complete bibliographical study of the literature of head injury that had been brought together up to that time”. Digital facsimile from Google Books at th…
GMN 5000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6549
1823 DUDLEY, Benjamin Winslow (1785 – 1870)
Case reports: From injuries of the head.
Dudley was for many years the leading surgeon on the western frontier of the United States. This paper reports the first operations on the brain performed in the United States. Three of the five patients were relieved…
GMN 4851.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5599
1874 PRUNIÈRES, Pierre Marie Barthélémy (1828 – 1893)
Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.
Prunières separated postmortem trepanations and rondelles from antemortem operations, and also described tuberculous lesions in Neolithic bones.
GMN 7705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9877
1930 BREASTED, James Henry (1865 – 1935)
The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.
At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…
GMN 4850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6807
1977 JENNETT, Bryan (1926 – 2008); TEASDALE, Graham Michael (1940 – )
Aspects of coma after severe head injury.
Glasgow Coma Scale for grading brain injury following head trauma.
GMN 4914.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6035
1978 COURVILLE, Cyril Brian (1900 – 1968); COOPER, William Conrad (1931 – 2006); THOMAS, M. L. Manson
Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.
GMN 8775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10953
1989 BERTAPAGLIA, Leonardo (1380 – 1463)
Leonard of Bertapaglia: On nerve injuries and skull fractures. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Jules C. Ladenheim.
GMN 9433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11616
