1779 DAVID, Jean Pierre (1737 – 1784)

Dissertation sur les effets du mouvement et du repos dans les maladies chirurgicales.

Includes a description of Pott’s disease, with post-mortem findings, better than Pott’s own account. This is an important early work on the effect of movement and of rest in the treatment of joint conditions. English …

GMN 4303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5469

1779 POTT, Percivall (1714 – 1788)

Remarks on that kind of palsy of the lower limbs, which is frequently found to accompany a curvature of the spine.

“Pott’s disease”. Percival Pott, surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital for more than 40 years, left a classic description of spinal curvature due to tuberculous caries and causing paralysis of the lower limbs. He did …

GMN 4304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5473

1828 DELPECH, Jacques Mathieu (1777 – 1832)

De l’orthomorphie. 2 vols. and atlas.

Delpech, Professor of Surgery at Montpellier, published a comprehensive treatise on deformities of the bones and joints. He established the tuberculous nature of Pott’s disease. Delpech did more than any other man tow…

GMN 4315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5526

1834 RUST, Johann Nepomuk (1775 – 1840)

Aufsätze und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Medizin, Chirurgie und Staatsarzneikunde. 1, 196.

First description of “Rust’s disease” – tuberculous spondylitis of the cervical vertebrae.

GMN 4319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5536

1876 SAYRE, Lewis Albert (1820 – 1900)

Report on Pott’s disease, or caries of the spine; treated by extension, and the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre was the first to use plaster of Paris as a support for the spinal column in scoliosis and Pott’s disease. His name is eponymically linked with Sayre’s jacket, a plaster of Paris jacket applied while the patient …

GMN 4344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5714

1877 SAYRE, Lewis Albert (1820 – 1900)

Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic quali…

GMN 4344.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5717

1891 HADRA, Berthold Ernest (1842 – 1903)

Wiring of the vertebrae as a means of immobilization in fracture and Pott’s disease.

“In a case of fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine (C 6-7) he [Hadra] performed open reduction, twisting metal wires around the spinous processes to stabilize the injured sector” (Bick). This is the first report…

GMN 4359.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5800

1891 HADRA, Berthold Ernest (1842 – 1903)

Wiring the spinal processes in Pott’s disease.

First spinal fusion.

GMN 4359.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5802

1915 ALBEE, Fred Houdlett (1876 – 1945)

Bone-graft surgery.

Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make inlaid, perfectly-fitting grafts. See especially his “Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the …

GMN 5757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6678