1517 GERSDORFF, Hans von (1455 – 1529)
Feldtbuch der wundartzney.
Gersdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Paré’s abandonment of boiling oil for the cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures of early surgical procedures and includes the first…
GMN 5560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6919
1564 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.
Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in amputations, one of h…
GMN 3668.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6937
1569 DALÉCHAMPS, Jacques (1513 – 1588)
Chirurgie françoise, avec plusieurs figures des instrumens nécessaires pour l'opération manuelle.
Daléchamp, a pupil of Guillaume Rondelet, received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1547; he settled in Lyons in 1552, where he remained for the rest of his life. His Chirurgie françoise…
GMN 13117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15373
1573 CROCE, Giovanni Andrea Della (1514 – 1575)
Chirurgiae Ioannis Andrea a Cruce, Veneti medici libri septem, Quamplurimis instrumentorum imaginibus arti chirurgicae opportunis suis locis exornati, theoricam, practicam ac verissimam experientiam continentes....
Croce improved the instruments for trephination, and published classic woodcuts depicting the operation, including the first illustration of a neurological surgery operation actually taking place. The work is also imp…
GMN 4850.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5586
1575 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.
Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery (No. …
GMN 5565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6944
1594 GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550 – 1613)
La chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens.
Guillemeau was Paré’s son-in-law. His splendidly illustrated work is of special importance for dentistry and for surgery for cleft lip. It describes pyorrhea alveolaris for the first time and is also the first work to…
GMN 3669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5428
1655 SCHULTES, Johannes [SCULTETUS] (1595 – 1645)
Χειροπλοθήκη seu armamentarium chirurgicum.
Scultetus is famous for his illustrations of surgical procedures and both surgical and dental instruments. With respect to dentistry he describes and illustrates stomatological operations and includes fine illustratio…
GMN 3669.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6982
1719 HEISTER, Lorenz (1683 – 1758)
Chirurgie in welcher Alles was zur Wund-Artzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art gründlich abgehandelt....
Heister was the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book contains many interesting illustrations and includes an account of tourniquets used in his time; Heister introduced a spinal brace. This was the most …
GMN 5576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6999
1801 –1808 BELL, John (1763 – 1820)
The principles of surgery. 3 vols.
John Bell, the Scottish anatomist and brother of Charles Bell, is regarded as a founder of surgical anatomy. He was first to ligate the gluteal artery (Vol. I, pp, 421-26), and tied the common carotid and internal ili…
GMN 2926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7011
1820 –1821 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.
One of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery. Hand-colored copies show more blood than is usual for surgical treatises of this period. From publication in fascicul…
GMN 5588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7040
1844 PANCOAST, Joseph (1805 – 1882)
A treatise on operative surgery.
Pancoast was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Jefferson Medical College. He was a fine operator and devised a number of new surgical operations and instruments. This was work contains 80 fine lithographed plates, a…
GMN 5598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7087
1898 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
Operative gynecology. 2 vols.
Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most famous …
GMN 6108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7546
1939 ZOLLINGER, Robert Milton (1903 – 1992); CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947); CODDING, Mildred B. (1902 – 1991)
Atlas of surgical operations
Considered a new type of surgical textbook, with particularly remarkable illustrations by Codding. The work, which was initially used as a field guide for American military personnel during World War II, remained in p…
GMN 14362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16694
