1565 KENTMANN, Johannes (1518 – 1574)
Calculorum qui in corpore ac membris hominum innascuntur, genera XII. depicta descriptaque, cum historiis singulorum admirandis.
The first treatise to specifically on urinary calculi and gallstones, with each of the 12 chapters exploring a part of the human body where such stones are found (gall bladder, kidneys, bladder, etc.). Additionally, t…
GMN 11489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13688
1832 BRIGHT, Richard (1789 – 1858)
Cases and observations connected with disease of the pancreas and duodenum.
GMN 3615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4546
1868 BOBBS, John Stough (1809 – 1870)
Case of lithotomy of the gall-bladder.
First cholecystotomy for the removal of gallstones.
GMN 3621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4563
1882 BALSER, W.
Ueber Fettnekrose, eine zuweilen tödliche Krankheit des Menschen.
First description of pancreatic necrosis, “Balser’s fat necrosis”.
GMN 3626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4576
1882 LANGENBUCH, Carl Johann August (1846 – 1901)
Ein Fall von Exstirpation der Gallenblase wegen chronischer Cholelithiasis; Heilung.
First successful removal of the gallbladder.
GMN 3627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4579
1884 ARNOZAN, Charles Louis Xavier (1852 – 1928); VAILLARD, Louis (1850 – 1935)
Contribution à l’étude du pancreas du lapin. Lésions provoquées par la ligature du canal de Wirsung.
Arnozan and Vaillard showed that blockage of the pancreatic ducts caused atrophy of the pancreas but not diabetes.
GMN 3946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5192
1886 SENN, Nicholas (1844 – 1908)
The surgery of the pancreas, as based upon experiments and clinical researches.
In this review of the world literature and a report of animal experimentation, Senn concluded that complete extirpation of the pancreas was invariably followed by death, but that partial excision was feasible and just…
GMN 3629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4584
1888 BARD, Louis (1857 – 1930); PIC, Adrien (1862 – )
Contribution à l’étude clinique et anatomo-pathologique du cancer primitif du pancréas.
“Bard-Pic syndrome” first described.
GMN 3630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4587
1888 RIEDEL, Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig (1846 – 1916)
Ueber den zungenförmigen Fortsatz des rechten Leberlappens und seine pathognostiche Bedeutung für die Erkrankung der Gallenblase nebst Bemerkungen über Gallensteinoperationen.
“Riedel’s lobe”, a form of constriction lobe of the liver.
GMN 3631 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4614
1889 FITZ, Reginald Heber (1843 – 1913)
Acute pancreatitis; a consideration of pancreatic hemorrhage, hemorrhagic suppurative, and gangrenous pancreatitis, and of disseminated fat necrosis.
Fitz described three forms of acute pancreatitis, and made the earliest suggestion that disseminated fat necrosis is the result of a pathologic process in the pancreas.
GMN 3632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4617
1892 NAUNYN, Bernhard (1839 – 1925)
Klinik der Cholelithiasis.
Naunyn produced a classic monograph on gall-stones, devising an accurate chemical classification. He was one of Frerichs’s best pupils and became Professor of Clinical Medicine successively at Dorpat, Berne, Königsber…
GMN 3634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4631
1898 BUXBAUM, A
Ueber die Photographie von Gallensteinen in vivo.
First x-ray demonstration of gall-stones.
GMN 3638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4636
1903 OPIE, Eugene Lindsay (1873 – 1971)
Disease of the pancreas; its cause and nature.
GMN 3641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4665
1909 ASCHOFF, Karl Albert Ludwig (1866 – 1942); BACMEISTER, Adolf (1882 – 1945)
Die Cholelithiasis.
GMN 3645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4674
1917 MELTZER, Samuel James (1851 – 1920)
The disturbance of the law of contrary innervation as a pathogenetic factor in the diseases of the bile ducts and the gall-bladder.
Non-surgical drainage of the gallbladder was first suggested by Meltzer. See also No. 3651.
GMN 3649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4732
1919 LYON, Bethuel Boyd Vincent (1880 – 1953)
Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the gall-bladder and bilary ducts. Preliminary report on a new method.
See No. 3649.
GMN 3651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4740
1924 GRAHAM, Evarts Ambrose (1883 – 1957); COLE, Warren Henry (1898 – 1990)
Roentgenologic examination of the gallbladder.
Introduction of cholecystography.
GMN 3652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4751
1929 ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944); MCNEE, Sir John William (1887 – 1984)
Diseases of the liver, gall-bladder, and bile ducts. 3rd edition.
GMN 3657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4771
1931 BREUER, Bela
Über ein neues Röntgensymptom der Gallensteinkrankheit.
Star-shaped radiolucencies caused by gas in gallstones.
GMN 3658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4775
1935 WHIPPLE, Allen Oldfather (1881 – 1963); ET AL
Treatment of carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater.
Pancreaticoduodenectomy for cancer of pancreas. With W. B. Parsons and C. R. Mullins.
GMN 3659.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4789
1936 FANCONI, Guido (1892 – 1979); ET AL
Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher Pankreasfibromatose und Bronchiektasien.
Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) described. With E. Uehlinger and C. Knauer.
GMN 3659.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4793
1937 BRUNSCHWIG, Alexander (1901 – 1969)
Resection of head of pancreas and duodenum for carcinoma – pancreatoduodenectomy.
See also the same journal, 1943, 77, 581-84.
GMN 3660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4804
2001 MARESCAUX, Jacques (1948 – ); LEROY, Joël
Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.
The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…
GMN 7959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10134
2007 MARESCAUX, Jacques (1948 – )
"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.
The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…
GMN 7963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10139
