1742 VELSE, Cornelius Henrik

De mutuo intestinorum ingressu.

First recorded successful operation for intussusception in an adult. The paper is also included in Haller’s Disputationes, vol. 1.

GMN 3423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5347

1805 SMITH, Thomas (1785 – 1831)

An essay on wounds of the intestines.

The first serious attempt at repairing intestinal injuries in America, and the first use of dogs for experimental surgery in America.

GMN 3430.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5384

1810 MERREM, Daniel Carl Theodor (1790 – 1859)

Animadversiones quaedam chirurgicae experimentis in animalibus factis illustratae.

Experimental excision of the pylorus.

GMN 3431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5387

1812 TRAVERS, Benjamin (1783 – 1858)

An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines.

Travers’s researches on intestinal sutures recorded the first accurate knowledge on this subject.

GMN 3433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5395

1826 LEMBERT, Antoine (1802 – 1851)

Mémoire sur l’entéroraphie avec la description d’un procédé nouveau pour pratiquer cette opération chirurgicale.

Description of what is now known as Lembert’s suture, which ensures that serous surface is applied to serous surface in suturing intestine – the foundation of all modern gastric and intestinal surgery. Dieffenbach (se…

GMN 3435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5400

1829 JOBERT DE LAMBALLE, Antoine Joseph (1799 – 1867)

Traité théorique et pratique des maladies chirurgicales du canal intestinal. 2 vols.

Jobert, famous French surgeon, made his reputation on this book. He was at one time Consulting Physician to Louis XVIII.

GMN 3439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5433

1835 WILSON, John R. W.

A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.

First operation for intussusception in the United States, performed in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The patient was a negro slave; the operation was a complete success. Reported by Wilson’s pupil, W.W. Thompson.

GMN 3440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5440

1836 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)

Glückliche Heilung nach Ausscheidung eines Theiles des Darms und Netzes.

First account of a resection in which Lembert’s suture was successfully employed.

GMN 3441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5441

1843 GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)

An experimental and critical inquiry into the nature and treatment of wounds of the intestines.

Reports of a series of experiments upon dogs to determine the best way to treat intestinal wounds. First published in West. J. Med. Surg., 1843. 7, 1-50, [81]-141, [161]-224.

GMN 3446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5491

1849 SÉDILLOT, Charles Emmanuel (1804 – 1883)

Opération de gastrostomie pratiquée pour la première fois le 13 novembre 1849.

First gastrostomy.

GMN 3451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5571

1854 FENGER, Carl Emil (1814 – 1884)

Ueber Anlegung einer künstlichen Magenöffnung am Menschen durch Gastrotomie.

Fenger’s operation.

GMN 3452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5572

1858 FORSTER, John Cooper (1824 – 1896)

Description of the operation of gastrotomy.

First gastrostomy in Britain.

GMN 3457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5588

1859 MIDDELDORPF, Albrecht Theodor (1824 – 1868)

Commentatio de fistulis ventriculi externis et chirurgica earum sanatione.

First operation for gastric fistula.

GMN 3459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5593

1870 –1871 ANNANDALE, Thomas (1839 – 1908)

Case in which an intestinal obstruction was removed by the operation of gastrotomy.

GMN 3463.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5609

1870 MAURY, Frank Fontaine (1840 – 1879)

Case of stricture of the oesophagus in which gastrotomy was performed.

First gastrostomy for obstruction of the esophagus performed in America.

GMN 3464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5613

1875 JONES, Sydney (1831 – 1913)

Gastrostomy for stricture (cancerous?) of oesophagus; death from bronchitis forty days after operation.

Successful human gastrostomy by the older (Sédillot’s) method. Reported by S. Osborne.

GMN 3467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5623

1876 GUSSENBAUER, Carl (1842 – 1903); WINIWARTER, Alexander von (1848 – 1917)

Die partielle Magenresektion; eine experimentelle operative Studie.

A practical method for excision of the pylorus, as demonstrated in dogs, was published by these two assistants of Billroth.

GMN 3467.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5627

1876 VERNEUIL, Aristide Auguste Stanislaus (1823 – 1895)

Observation de gastro-stomie pratiquée avec succès pour un rétrécissement cicatriciel infranchissable de l’oesophage.

Verneuil’s gastrostomy operation, a modification of Sédillot’s method.

GMN 3468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5629

1878 –1879 LINDSTEDT, Adolf Fredrik (1847 – 1915); WALDENSTRÖM, Johan Anton (1839 – 1879)

Volvulus flexurae sigmoideae coli – Laparo-colotomia – Helsa.

First recorded operation for volvulus.

GMN 3469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5636

1879 PÉAN, Jules-Émile (1830 – 1898)

De l’ablation des tumeurs de l’estomac par la gastrectomie.

First gastrectomy for carcinoma; unsuccessful.

GMN 3472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5644

1880 RYDYGIER, Ludwik (1850 – 1920)

Wyçiecie raka odźwiernika zoladkowego, śmierćw 12 godzinach.

First extirpation of carcinomatous pylorus. Death after 12 hours. German translation in Dtsch. Z. Chir., 1881, 14, 252-60.

GMN 3473.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5651

1881 BILLROTH, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 – 1894)

Offenes Schreiben an Herrn Dr. L. Wittelshöfer.

First successful resection of the pylorus for cancer, the Billroth I operation.

GMN 3474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5656

1881 WÖLFLER, Anton (1850 – 1917)

Gastro-Enterostomie.

Wölfler perfected the operation of gastro-enterostomy.

GMN 3476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5664

1881 CLARK, Henry Edward (1845 – 1909)

On a case of obstruction of the bowels due to volvulus, treated by abdominal section; recovery.

First successful operation in Britain for treatment of volvulus, performed 20 February, 1883.

GMN 3479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5677

1882 LORETA, Pietro (1831 – 1889)

Intorno alla divulsione digitale del pilore; osservazione cliniche.

First pyloroplasty, 1882. Abstract in English in Brit. med.J., 1885, 1, 372-74.

GMN 3477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5669

1884 HAUER, Ernst

Darmresektion und Enterorhaphieen, 1878-83.

Billroth was a pioneer in visceral surgery. Above is an account of many intestinal resections and enterorrhaphies carried out by him.

GMN 3480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5680

1884 TREVES, Sir Frederick (1853 – 1923)

Intestinal obstruction

Jacksonian Prize essay.

GMN 3482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5691

1885 GREVES, Edwin Hyla (1856 – 1932)

On a case of acute intestinal obstruction in a boy, with remarks upon the treatment of acute obstruction.

Abdominal section and ileostomy for intestinal obstruction; surgeon’s report on pp. 130-35.

GMN 3482.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5698

1885 HACKER, Viktor von (1852 – 1933)

Zur Casuistik und Statistik der Magenresectionen und Gastro-enterostomieen.

Billroth II pylorectomy, reported by von Hacker. Also published in Arch. klin. Chir., 1885, 32, 616-25.

GMN 3483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5701

1886 HACKER, Viktor von (1852 – 1933)

Ueber die Verwendung des Musculus rectus abdominis zum Verschlusse der künstlichen Magenfistel.

Von Hacker’s method of gastrostomy.

GMN 3486 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3879

1887 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

Circular suture of the intestines; an experimental study.

Halsted set down some of the fundamental rules regarding intestinal anastomosis.

GMN 3488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3883

1888 SENN, Nicholas (1844 – 1908)

Rectal insufflation of hydrogen gas an infallible test in the diagnosis of visceral injury of the gastro-intestinal canal in penetrating wounds of the abdomen.

Senn’s method of detecting intestinal perforation by insufflation with hydrogen.

GMN 3494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3903

1892 ABBE, Robert (1851 – 1928)

Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.

Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.

GMN 3501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3918

1892 JABOULAY, Mathieu (1860 – 1913)

De la gastro-duodénostomie.

Introduction of gastroduodenostomy.

GMN 3504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3927

1892 MURPHY, John Benjamin (1857 – 1916)

Cholecysto-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, entero-intestinal anastomosis, and approximation without sutures.

“Murphy’s button” introduced.

GMN 3507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3962

1893 FRANK, Rudolf (1862 – 1913)

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.

See No. 3512.

GMN 3508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3966

1893 PÉNIÈRES, L

De la gastrostomie par la méthode de la valvule ou du plissement de la muqueuse stomacale.

Pénières of Toulouse conceived the idea of the valvular method of gastrostomy.

GMN 3509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3970

1893 SENN, Nicholas (1844 – 1908)

Enterorrhaphy; its history, technique and present status.

Senn, Professor of Surgery at Chicago, was one of the first to investigate experimentally the subject of gastro-intestinal anastomosis.

GMN 3511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3980

1893 SSABANEJEW, J. F.

Über die Anlegung einer röhrenformigen Magenfistel bei Verengerungen der Speiseröhre.

Ssabanejew and Frank independently developed a new method of gastrostomy, the Ssabanejew-Frank operation. The above is an abstract of the original, which appeared in Khirurgitscheski Vestnik, June 1893.

GMN 3512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3983

1897 –1899 SCHLATTER, Carl B. (1864 – 1934)

Ueber Ernährung und Verdauung nach vollständiger Entfernung des Magens, Oesophagoenterostomie, beim Menschen.

First successful total gastrectomy.

GMN 3517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3997

1897 –1898 BALDY, John Montgomery (1860 – 1934)

First removal of the stomach in America.

Operation performed by Baldy in 1893. He refers to a claim in J. Amer. med. Ass., 1898, 30, 341-44 giving credit for the first excision of the stomach in America to A. C. Bernays (1854-1907). While Baldy probably dese…

GMN 3518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4000

1898 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

Miniature hammers and the suture of the bile ducts.

Illustrated by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 13224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15488

1899 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

Contribution to the surgery of the bile passages, especially of the common bile-duct.

“Among Halsted’s many outstanding surgical accomplishments those related to surgery of the biliary tract are lesser known. However, he is commonly credited with performing the first successful operation for a primary …

GMN 3639.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4642

1900 MAYO, William James (1861 – 1939)

Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.

Mayo’s operation of partial gastrectomy. Mayo was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.

GMN 3522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4012

1901 DEPAGE, Antoine (1862 – 1925)

Nouveau procédé pour la gastrostomie.

Depage used a tube formed from the anterior wall of the stomach, lined with mucous membrane, in his gastrostomy operation.

GMN 3523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4014

1901 ROBSON, Sir Arthur William Mayo (1853 – 1933); MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)

Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.

GMN 3524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4016

1908 STUMPF, R

Beitrag zur Magenchirurgie.

Report of Hofmeister’s modification of the Billroth II gastro-enterostomy.

GMN 3529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4024

1909 LANE, Sir William Arbuthnot (1856 – 1943)

The operative treatment of chronic constipation.

Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.

GMN 3531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4026

1911 PÓLYA, Jenő Sándor [Eugen Alexander] (1876 – 1944)

Zur Stumpversorgung nach Magenresektion.

Pólya’s modification of the Billroth II operation. Pólya is believed to have been murdered by a Nazi group during the siege of Budapest by the Russians in December, 1944, although his body was never recovered.

GMN 3537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4038

1929 SPIVACK, Julius Leo (1889 – 1956)

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie.

Introduction of tubo-valvular gastrostomy.

GMN 3549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4060