1632 SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio [SEVERINUS] (1580 – 1656)
De recondita abscessuum natura.
The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats of all kinds of swelling under the term “abscess” and describes neoplasms of the genital organs and sarcoma of bones. Tumors of the breast are classified into four g…
GMN 2273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2841
1682 YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)
Wounds of the brain proved curable, not only by the opinion and experience of many (the best) authors, but the remarkable history of a child four years old cured of two very large depressions, with the loss of a great part of the skull, a portion of the brain also issuing thorough a penetrating wound of the dura and pia mater…
Probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head and brain. Yonge was a naval surgeon who set up in practice in Plymouth after he gave up the sea. He had just performed the operation for an injury of the…
GMN 8836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11014
1838 VALLEIX, François Louis Isidore (1807 – 1855)
Clinique des maladies des enfants nouveau-nes.
The first work on the diseases of newborns and the first work on child neurology and pediatric neurosurgery.
GMN 13150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15409
1905 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
Concerning surgical intervention for the intracranial hemorrhages of the new-born.
Successful operative intervention in intracranial hemorrhage of the new-born.
GMN 4878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5742
1914 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946); BLACKFAN, Kenneth Daniel (1883 – 1941)
Internal hydrocephalus.
Dandy and the pediatrician Blackfan published two papers on the production, circulation, and absorption of CSF in the brain and on the causes and potential treatments of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the buildup of …
GMN 4597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8926
1918 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Extirpation of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles in communicating hydrocephalus.
GMN 4888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5843
1931 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
Experiences with the cerebellar astrocytomas. A critical review of seventy-six cases.
Cushing's most extensive contribution to pediatric neurosurgery concerned his operative experience with these tumors (often benign) that most frequently occur in childhood.
GMN 11188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13385
1954 INGRAHAM, Franc Douglas (1898 – 1965); MATSON, Donald Darrow (1913 – 1969)
Neurosurgery of infancy and childhood.
The first complete textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. Ingraham, a protegé of Harvey Cushing, established the first pediatric neurosurgery unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1929.
GMN 11159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13356
