1831 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)
De la rétraction des doigts par suite d’une affection de l’aponévrose palmaire, opération chirurgicale qui convient dans ce cas.
Dupuytren devised an operation for the treatment of contracture of the palmar fascia (“Dupuytren’s contracture”). Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 127-50. The condition was first mentioned by Pl…
GMN 4317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5532
1869 FORT, Joseph-Auguste Aristide (1835 – 1920)
Des difformités congénitales et acquises des doigts et des moyens d’y remédier. Thèse présentée au concours pour l’agrégation (section de chirurgie).
This exceptionally long and comprehensive (246pp., 39 text illustrations) thesis was the first French work on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13341
1882 BLUM, Albert (1844 – )
Chirurgie de la main.
The first manual on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 14320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16645
1905 KANAVEL, Allen Buchner (1874 – 1938)
An anatomical, experimental, and clinical study of acute phlegmons of the hand.
"Kanavel produced the classic paper on infection in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1905. In that paper, he described the anatomy and clinical study of acute infections of the hand. This clearly changed the cour…
GMN 14147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16462
1912 KANAVEL, Allen Buchner (1874 – 1938)
Infections of the hand: A guide to the surgical treatment of acute and chronic suppurative processes in the fingers, hand, and forearm.
The first comprehensive treatise on hand surgery, and the classic work on tendon and bursal hand spaces relevant to management of hand infections. Kanavel developed the method of forcible injection of radio-opaque mat…
GMN 4386.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5922
1932 MASON, Michael Livingood (1895 – 1963); SHEARON, Clarence Good (1899 – 1945)
The process of tendon repair: An experimental study of tendon suture and tendon graft.
GMN 14038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16346
1944 BUNNELL, Sterling (1882 – 1957)
Surgery of the hand.
Bunnell originated hand surgery as a specialty.
GMN 4404.02 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6071
1963 HUESTON, John (1926 – 1993)
Recurrent Dupuytren's contracture.
Hueston described Dupuytren's diathesis, including early onset, bilateral involvement, postive family history, and presence of ectopic lesions. He noted that patents presenting Dupuytren's diathesis experience more se…
GMN 14103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16414
1966 SWANSON, A. B.
A flexible implant for replacement of arthritic or destroyed joints in the hand.
“Swanson prosthesis” – flexible silicone rubber finger-joint prosthesis.
GMN 4405.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6123
1972 STACK, H. Graham
The palmar fascia.
"There have been many descriptions of the palmar fascia by anatomists and in papers dealing with the surgical treatment of Dupuytren's contracture, but what seems to be lacking is an overall view of the problem, based…
GMN 7433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9605
1976 BOYES, Joseph H. (1905 – 1995)
On the shoulders of giants. Notable names in hand surgery.
A history of hand surgery.
GMN 4483.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/342
