1861 STODDARD, Charles L.
Case of encephaloid disease of the kidney; removal, etc.
Erastus Bradley Wolcott (1804-1880) was first to excise the kidney (for renal tumor). The preoperative diagnosis had been tumor of the liver. Only after the operation did the surgeons realize that they had removed the…
GMN 4210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6249
1865 HILLIER, Thomas (1831 – 1868)
Hydronephrosis in a boy four years old, repeatedly tapped; recovery.
Hillier performed the first therapeutic percutaneous nephrostomy for giant hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a four-year old boy.
GMN 4211.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6256
1870 SIMON, Gustav (1824 – 1876)
Exstirpation einer Niere am Menschen.
First successful planned nephrectomy for urinary tract fistula. A more detailed, illustrated account of the case appears in No. 4214.
GMN 4213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6266
1871 –1876 SIMON, Gustav (1824 – 1876)
Chirurgie der Nieren. Teil 1-2.
Simon was Professor of Surgery at Rostock and Heidelberg. The work was projected as 3 vols., but Simon died before it was completed.
GMN 4214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6272
1877 LANGENBUCH, Carl Johann August (1846 – 1901)
Eine eigenthümliche Nierenexstirpation.
First nephrectomy for malignant disease.
GMN 4216.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6285
1881 HAHN, Eugen (1841 – 1902)
Die operative Behandlung der beweglichen Niere durch Fixation.
Hahn devised the operation of nephropexy (nephrorrhaphy) for the relief of movable kidney.
GMN 4218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6299
1882 BASSINI, Edoardo (1844 – 1924)
Un caso di rene mobile fissato col mezzo dell’operazione cruenta.
Important modification of Hahn’s operation of nephropexy.
GMN 4219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6302
1888 BOZEMAN, Nathan (1825 – 1905)
Chronic pyelitis, successfully treated by kolpo-uretero-cystotomy.
Bozeman treated vesical and fecal fistulae in women, dealing with the complication of pyelitis by catheterization of the ureter through a vesicovaginal opening.
GMN 4221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6309
1890 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
Ueber Blasenscheidenfisteloperationen und über Beckenhochlagerung bei Operationen in der Bauchhöhle.
Includes an account of his attempt, 1886, to cure hydronephrosis by a plastic operation – the first recorded surgical intervention for the relief of this condition. Includes description of the “Trendelenburg position”…
GMN 4222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6313
1892 KÜSTER, Ernst Georg Ferdinand von (1839 – 1930)
Ein Fall von Resektion des Harnleiters.
First successful plastic operation for the relief of hydronephrosis.
GMN 4223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6318
1893 EDEBOHLS, George Michael (1853 – 1908)
Movable kidney; with a report of twelve cases treated by nephrorrhaphy.
In his nephropexy operation Edebohls utilized flaps of the capsule of the kidney. He believed that decapsulation improved the renal blood supply.
GMN 4224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6321
1894 FENGER, Christian (1840 – 1902)
Operation for the relief of valve formation and stricture of the ureter in hydro- or pyo-nephrosis.
Fenger’s operation for stenosis of the uretero-pelvic junction.
GMN 4225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5036
1896 ALBARRAN Y DOMINGUEZ, Joaquin Maria (1860 – 1912)
Sur un série de quarante opérations pratiquées sur la rein.
First planned nephrostomy.
GMN 4226.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5055
1901 EDEBOHLS, George Michael (1853 – 1908)
The cure of chronic Bright’s disease by operation.
Edebohls introduced the operation of renal decortication for the treatment of chronic nephritis.
GMN 4229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5060
1906 ALBARRAN Y DOMINGUEZ, Joaquin Maria (1860 – 1912)
Technique de la néphropexie.
“Albarran’s operation” – nephropexy.
GMN 4233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5083
1937 FOLEY, Frederic Eugene Basil (1891 – 1966)
A new plastic operation for stricture at the uretero-pelvic junction: report of 20 operations.
Foley’s operation for hydronephrosis.
GMN 4250.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5145
