1781 CAMPER, Petrus (Pieter) (1722 – 1789)
Dissertation sur la meilleure forme des souliers.
Classic discussion of childhood shoe-induced deformities. There was also an edition in Dutch published the same year. Digital facsimile of the edition in French from the Internet Archive at this link. English translat…
GMN 4305.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5484
1803 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)
Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congenita dei fanciulli.
First accurate description of the pathological anatomy of congenital club-foot. English translation, Edinburgh, 1818.
GMN 4308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5497
1803 HEY, William (1736 – 1819)
Practical observations in surgery.
Hey is remembered for “Hey’s saw” and “Hey’s internal derangement of the knee,” a phrase that he coined. He was an outstanding surgeon in his day; he founded and was senior surgeon of the General Infirmary, Leeds. He …
GMN 4308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5506
1823 –1828 DELPECH, Jacques Mathieu (1777 – 1832)
Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier. 2 vols.
Delpech's work includes the first account of rhinoplasty in France. On 4 June 1823, Delpech performed the first of six cases of rhinoplasty by the Indian forehead flap method, and one (unsuccessful) with a flap from t…
GMN 4312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6544
1833 STROMEYER, Georg Friedrich Ludwig (1804 – 1876)
Die Durchschneidung der Achillessehne, als Heilmethode des Klumpfusses, durch zwei Fälle erläutert.
Successful tenotomy for clubfoot established the reputation of Stromeyer as an orthopedic surgeon.
GMN 4320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5537
1839 LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions.
Little suffered from club-foot himself. This is the greatest English classic on the subject. See No. 4329.
GMN 4322.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5540
1839 BROWN, John Ball (1784 – 1862)
Operations on club-feet.
Brown was the first surgeon in the United States to specialize in orthopedics, founding the Orthopedic Infirmary of the City of Boston (soon renamed the Boston Orthopedic Institution) in 1838. Brown was also the first…
GMN 4322.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5541
1841 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)
Ueber die Durchschneidung der Sehnen und Muskeln.
Report on 140 cases of tenotomy for treatment of club-foot.
GMN 4323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5542
1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Kostno-plasticheskoye udlineniye kostei goleni pri vilushtshenii stopi. [Osteoplastic elongation of the bones of the leg in amputation of the foot.]
Pirogov’s method of complete osteoplastic amputation of the foot. German translation, Leipzig, 1854.
GMN 4465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/137
1875 THOMAS, Hugh Owen (1834 – 1891)
Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method.
Thomas splint. Enlarged second edition, 1876. See No. 4348.
GMN 4340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5693
1882 ALBERT, Eduard (1841 – 1900)
Einige Fälle von kunstlicher Ankylosenbildung an paralytischen Gliedmassen.
Albert introduced the concept of joint arthrodesis into orthopedic surgery. This is the first description of arthrodesis of an ankle for paralytic foot. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 52-54.
GMN 4347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5733
1892 PARRISH, B. F.
A new operation for paralytic talipes valgus, and the enunciation of a new surgical principle.
First successful tendon transplantation.
GMN 4363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5812
1893 ALBERT, Eduard (1841 – 1900)
Achillodynie.
Tendo Achilles bursitis, “Albert’s disease”.
GMN 4364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5818
1908 KÖHLER, Alban (1874 – 1947)
Ueber eine häufige, bisher anscheinend unbekannte Erkrankung einzelner kindlicher Knochen.
“Köhler’s disease” of the scaphoid bone of the foot in children. See No. 4387.
GMN 4377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5882
1927 MORTON, Dudley Joy (1884 – 1960)
Metatarsus atavicus: The identification of a distinct type of foot disorder.
"Morton's toe," the condition of having a first metatarsal which is short in relation to the second metatarsal. It is a type of brachymetatarsia. See also Morton, The human foot: Its evolutionary development, physiolo…
GMN 13996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16300
1939 KITE, Joseph Hiram (1891 – 1986)
Principles involved in the treatment of congenital clubfoot.
Kite’s method, involving “a series of plaster casts and wedgings, without the use of anesthetics, forcible manipulations, or operative procedures”, became standard practice.
GMN 4403.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6049
