1762 WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)

An account of a new method of reducing shoulders (without the use of an ambe) which have been several months dislocated, in cases where the common methods have proved inefficient.

White’s method of reducing shoulder dislocations by means of suspending the patient from the affected arm. This method either reduced the dislocation entirely, or moved the head of the humerus into a position where it…

GMN 4407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6145

1842 –1843 FERGUSSON, Sir William (1808 – 1877)

Excision of a portion of the scapula.

First description of operation for partial excision of scapula.

GMN 4323.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5544

1850 LANGENBECK, Bernard Rudolf Conrad von (1810 – 1887)

Grosses Enchondrom (Gallertknorpel-Geschwulst) des Schulterblattes; Exstirpation des ganzen Schulterblattes mit Ausnahme des Processus coracoides am 6 Febr.; Tod am 7 Febr.

Complete excision of the scapula.

GMN 4326.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5559

1863 EULENBURG, Moritz Michael (1811 – 1877)

Hochgradige Dislocation der Scapula.

First description of congenital high-scapula “Sprengel’s deformity”; see also No. 4359.

GMN 4332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5563

1870 KOCHER, Emil Theodor (1841 – 1917)

Eine neue Reductionsmethode für Schulterverrenkung.

Kocher was Professor of Surgery at Berne, and among the greatest surgeons of his day. He is remembered, among other things, for his method of reduction of subluxation of the shoulder-joint.

GMN 4425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6236

1872 DUPLAY, Simon (1836 – 1924)

De la périarthrite scapulo-humérale et des raideurs de l’épaule qui en sont la conséquence.

“Frozen shoulder” syndrome described.

GMN 4339.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5689

1891 SPRENGEL, Otto Gerhard Karl (1852 – 1915)

Die angeborene Verschiebung des Schulterblattes nach oben.

Classic description of “Sprengel’s deformity”, a congenital upward displacement of the scapula.

GMN 4359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5797

1894 PÉAN, Jules-Émile (1830 – 1898)

Des moyens prothétiques destinés à obtenir la réparation des parties osseuses.

Total prosthetic replacement of shoulder (p. 291) using an artificial joint made of hardened rubber and platinum. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 443-46.

GMN 4364.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5821

1923 BANKART, Arthur Sydney Blundell (1879 – 1951)

Recurrent or habitual dislocation of the shoulder-joint.

Blundell Bankart’s operation.

GMN 4432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6278

1934 CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)

The shoulder.

Definitive study of the rotator cuff, written in Codman’s idiosyncratic and iconoclastic style. Reprint, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1965.

GMN 4400.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6029