1804 BARONIO, Giuseppe (1759 – 1811)
Degli innesti animali.
Baronio was among the first to attempt transplantation and experimental surgery in animals. He successfully carried out full-thickness skin grafts after detachment from the body, and the first purely scientific resear…
GMN 5736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6523
1822 BÜNGER, Christian Heinrich (1782 – 1842)
Gelungener Versuch einer Nasenbildung aus einem völlig getrennten Hautstück aus dem Beine.
First well-documented full-thickness skin graft, used for a rhinoplasty on a patient whose nose and forehead had been destroyed by uncontrolled lupus. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5740.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6540
1870 REVERDIN, Jacques-Louis (1842 – 1929)
Greffe épidermique. Expérience faite dans le service de M. le docteur Guyon à l’hôpital Necker.
Reverdin’s work on the transplantation of free skin, as contrasted with the previous method of pedunculated flaps, attracted much attention. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6597
1871 POLLOCK, George David (1817 – 1897)
Cases of skin-grafting and skin-transplantation.
Pollock used Reverdin’s skin-grafting technique in the treatment of burn contractures.
GMN 2248.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2772
1871 LAWSON, George (1831 – 1903)
On the transplantation of portions of skin for the closure of large granulating surfaces.
Lawson, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, London, was the first successfully to transplant sizeable areas of skin, as compared with the small grafts of Reverdin, and of whole thickness skin as well. Reprinted in No. …
GMN 5751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6599
1872 OLLIER, Louis Xavier Édouard Léopold (1830 – 1900)
Greffes cutanées ou autoplastiques.
First description of intermediate thickness skin grafts. Ollier used large grafts and carried out complete excision of scar tissue and its replacement with skin.
GMN 5752 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6601
1874 THIERSCH, Carl (1822 – 1895)
Ueber die feineren anatomischen Veränderungen bei Aufheilung von Haut auf Granulationen.
Thiersch’s first paper on transplantation of skin. Simultaneous publication in Arch. klin. Chir., 1874, 17, 318-24. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8657
1875 WOLFE, John Reissberg (1824 – 1904)
A new method of performing plastic operations.
Wolfe insisted that in free skin grafts the subcutaneous tissue at the site of the graft must be removed, and that the graft should consist of skin only. His name is perpetuated in the “Wolfe-Krause graft rest”.
GMN 5754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6620
1893 KRAUSE, Fedor (1856 – 1937)
Ueber die Transplantation grosser ungestielter Hautlappen.
Krause popularized the use of whole thickness skin grafts. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6635
1912 SCHÖNE, Georg ( – 1960)
Die heteroplastiche und homöoplastiche Transplantation.
Schöne coined the term “transplantation immunity”. He set out general rules governing the acceptance or rejection of tumor grafts which are essentially the same as the modern “laws of transplantation”. This is a compr…
GMN 2567.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3691
1929 BLAIR, Vilray Papin (1871 – 1955); BROWN, James Barrett (1899 – 1971)
The use and uses of large split skin grafts of intermediate thickness.
Split-skin grafts for covering large areas of granulating surfaces introduced.
GMN 5761.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6704
1943 GIBSON, Thomas (1915 – 1993); MEDAWAR, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987)
The fate of skin homografts in man.
Gibson and Medawar placed the laws of transplantation on a firm scientific basis. A later paper by Medawar (J. Anat. [Lond.], 1944, 78, 176- 99) demonstrated that the mechanism of rejection of transplanted tissues is …
GMN 2578.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4141
1943 SANO, Machteld Elisabeth (1903 – 1993)
Skin grafting. A new method based on the principles of tissue culture.
First use of fibrin glue for skin grafting. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1943, 77, 510-13.
GMN 5765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6725
1951 MEDAWAR, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987); BILLINGHAM, Rupert Everett (1921 – 2002)
The technique of free skin grafting in mammals.
This "paper facilitated the later discovery of `actively acquired tolerance' and the definition of the principal laws of transplantation tolerance. Thus, it was in a series of classic experiments (stemming from this J…
GMN 13595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15874
1954 MEDAWAR, Sir Peter Brian (1915 – 1987); BILLINGHAM, Rupert Everett (1921 – 2002); BRENT, Leslie Baruch (1925 – 2019); SPARROW, Elizabeth M.
Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. I. The survival times of skin homografts exchanged between members of different inbred strains of mice. II. The origin, strength and duration of actively and adoptively acquired immunity.
Experimental production of immunological tolerance by Billingham and colleagues.Paper II distinguished adoptive from passive immunization. E. M. Sparrow was a co-author of paper I.
GMN 2578.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4149
