1717 BLAIR, Patrick (1660 – 1728)

An account of the dissection of a child.

First description of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Reprinted in Mark M. Ravitch, "The story of pyloric stenosis," Surgery, 48 (1960) 1117-1143.

GMN 3419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5338

1777 ARMSTRONG, George (1719 – 1789)

An account of the diseases most incident to children, from their birth till the age of puberty.

This is an enlarged and more important (third) edition of his An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants (1767) No. 6324. Page 49: Important description of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.

GMN 3425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5358

1788 BEARDSLEY, Hezekiah (1748 – 1790)

Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.

First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published. Beard…

GMN 3426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5363

1888 HIRSCHSPRUNG, Harald (1830 – 1916)

Fälle von angeborener Pylorusstenose, beobachtet bei Säuglingen.

Hirschsprung first made the medical world aware of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis as a distinct clinical entity. In this paper he made no suggestions concerning therapy.

GMN 3489.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3888

1912 RAMMSTEDT, Wilhelm Conrad (Ramstedt) (1867 – 1963)

Zur Operation der angeborenen Pylorusstenose.

The first pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis, incising the pyloric muscle while leaving the mucosa intact and leaving the muscle to heal: “Rammstedt’s operation.” In 1920 Rammstedt discovered that the family name had …

GMN 3539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4043