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

1819 ROUX, Philibert Joseph (1780 – 1854)

Observation sur une division congénitale du voile du palais et de la luette guérie au moyen d’une opération analogue à celle de bec-de-liévre.

Report of Roux’s operation on Stephenson (No. 5740). English translation in No. 5768.2. Roux recorded it more fully in his Quarante années de pratique chirurgicale, vol. 1. Paris, Masson, 1854. See No. 5741.2.

GMN 5739.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6535

1820 GRÄFE, Karl Ferdinand von [Graefe] (1787 – 1840)

Die Gaumennath, ein neuentdecktes Mittel gegen angeborene Fehler der Sprache.

Graefe devised an operation for the treatment of congenital cleft palate. He reported his first closure of a cleft in the soft palate to the Med.-Chir. Gesellschaft, Berlin, on 27 December 1816 (see J. pract Heilk., 1…

GMN 5739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6531

1820 STEPHENSON, John (1797 – 1842)

Dissertatio chirurgo-medica inauguralis de velosynthesi.

Stephenson, a medical student from Montreal, was the first to be operated upon by Roux (No. 5739.1) for the repair of cleft of the soft palate. He described the operation in his graduation thesis. Stephenson later fou…

GMN 5740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6538

1825 ROUX, Philibert Joseph (1780 – 1854)

Mémoire sur la staphyloraphie, ou la suture du voile du palais.

Roux’s first detailed paper on his operation for cleft of the soft palate in which he first proposed the name, “staphylorrhaphy”. The greatly expanded edition in book form, Paris, Chaudé, 1825, was translated into Ger…

GMN 5741.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6546

1828 WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)

On an operation for the cure of natural fissure of the soft palate.

Operation in May 1824 – the first staphylorraphy in America – performed without direct knowledge of Roux’s operations. Nathan Smith (1762-1829) published an earlier paper on staphylorrhaphy in America: Am. med. Rev., …

GMN 5742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6548

1842 –1843 WARREN, Jonathan Mason (1811 – 1867)

Operations for fissure of the hard and soft palate (palatoplastie).

Warren devised the first operation for closure of complete clefts of the palate.

GMN 5745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6571

1844 MALGAIGNE, Joseph François (1806 – 1865)

Nouvelle méthode pour l’opération du bec-de-lièvre.

Malgaigne’s two-flap method for repair of cleft lip. English translation by R. Ivy in No. 5768.2.

GMN 5746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6574

1844 MIRAULT, Germanicus (1796 – 1879)

Lettre (Deuxième lettre) sur l’opération du bec-de-lièvre, considérée dans ses divers états de simplicité et de complication.

Mirault modified Malgaigne’s technique for cleft lip repair by discarding the medial flap and bringing the lateral flap of mucosa across. Abridged English translation by R. Ivy in No. 5768.2.

GMN 5746.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6578

1862 LANGENBECK, Bernard Rudolf Conrad von (1810 – 1887)

Die Uranoplastik mittelst Ablösung es mucös-periostalen Gaumenüberzuges.

Langenbeck has several operations named after him, one of the most important being that for cleft palate. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.

GMN 5748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6593

1868 SIMON, Gustav (1824 – 1876)

Mittheilungen aus der chirurgischen Klinik des Rostocker Krankenhauses während der Jahre 1861-65. I. Abtheilung: Summarische Berichte. Chirurgische Mittheilungen mit Beschreibung interessanter Krankheitsfälle. (Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Deutschen Klinik' vom Jahre 1866 und 1867.) II. Abtheilung. Beiträge zur plastischen Chirurgie, vorzugsweise zu den plastischen Operationen an den Wandungen der zugängigen Körperhölen. Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Prager Viertelhahrschrift für prakt. Heilkunde' vom J. 1866 u. 1867.

Subtitle of II Abtheilung: ..."zugängigen Körperhöhlen: des Mundes, der Scheide und des Mastdarmes verbunden mit einem Berichte über meine plastischen Operationen von Ostern 1861 - Ostern 1866." Simon was the first to…

GMN 5749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7436

1872 ESTLANDER, Jakob August (1831 – 1881)

Eine Methode Aus Der Einen Lippe Substanzverluste Der Anderen zu Ersetzen.

The Abbe-Estlander operation, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip.

GMN 12419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14649

1884 HAGEDORN, Werner (1831 – 1894)

Übereine Modification der Hasenschartenoperation.

Hagedom’s operation is important as forming the basis of most modern methods of unilateral cleft lip repair.

GMN 5754.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6625

1898 ABBE, Robert (1851 – 1928)

A new plastic operation for the relief of deformity due to double harelip.

Abbe’s lip-switch flap, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip. This is also known eponymically as the Abbe–Estlander operation, crediting Jakob Estlander …

GMN 5755.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6641

1918 ROBERTS, John Bingham (1852 – 1924)

Congenital clefts of the face.

Roberts introduced the push-back procedure - backward displacement of the velum to ensure adequate speech.

GMN 5757.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6687

1921 GILLIES, Sir Harold Delf (1882 – 1960); FRY, Sir William Kelsey (1889 – 1963)

A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.

Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.

GMN 5759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6697

1928 WARDILL, William Edward Mandall (1894 – 1960)

Cleft palate.

Wardill’s operation for cleft palate.

GMN 5761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6701

1930 BLAIR, Vilray Papin (1871 – 1955); BROWN, James Barrett (1899 – 1971)

Mirault operation for single harelip.

Modern refinement of Mirault’s precedure for repair of cleft lip.

GMN 5762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6707

1931 VEAU, Victor (1871 – 1949)

Division palatine.

Includes Veau’s operation for cleft palate.

GMN 5763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6709

1933 DORRANCE, George Morris (1877 – 1949)

The operative story of cleft palate.

GMN 5768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6757

1949 LEMESURIER, Arthur Baker (1889 – 1982)

A method of cutting and suturing the lip in the treatment of complete unilateral clefts.

LeMesurier’s cheiloplasty procedure was based on Hagedorn’s method. He was first to attempt construction of the cupid’s bow of the vermilion.

GMN 5766.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6732

1976 –1980 MILLARD, David Ralph Jr. (1919 – 2011)

Cleft craft: The evolution of its surgery. 3 vols.

An encyclopedic monograph on cleft palate surgery, exceptionally well written, illustrated, and produced, incorporating an historical approach.

GMN 5766.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6743