1791 PLAIGNAUD, M.

Observation sur un fongus du sinus maxillaire.

First successful operation on a tumor of the maxillary sinus, 1789.

GMN 3250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3901

1830 LISFRANC DE ST. MARTIN, Jacques [Lisfranc] (1790 – 1847)

Mémoire sur l'excision de la partie inférieure du rectum, devenue carcinomateuse.

“The first successful operation for rectal cancer was performed by Lisfranc in 1826. This consisted of excising the anus and rectum via the perineum, which resulted in the functional equivalent of a perineal colostomy…

GMN 11150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13347

1843 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)

A nasal operation for the removal of a large tumour filling up the entire nostril and extending to the pharynx.

Removal of a fibrous growth from the nostril by division of the nasal and maxillary bones, July 8, 1841. Preliminary note in the same journal, 1842, 3, 257.

GMN 3259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3933

1844 REYBARD, Jean François (1790 – 1863)

Mémoire sur une tumeur cancéreuse affectant l’iliaque du colon; ablation de la tumeur et de l’intestin; réunion directe et immédiate des deux bouts de cet organe. Guérison.

First intestinal resection for cancer.

GMN 3447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5500

1852 GREEN, Horace (1802 – 1866)

The surgical treatment of polypi of the larynx and oedema of the glottis.

Green was one of the few to remove a laryngeal tumor before the invention of the laryngoscope.

GMN 3262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3952

1853 BUCK, Gurdon (1807 – 1877)

On the surgical treatment of morbid growths within the larynx, illustrated by an original case and statistical observations, elucidating their nature and forms.

Thyrotomy for removal of cancer of the larynx. The operation took place in May 1851, and the patient died in 1852.

GMN 3263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3954

1857 MIDDELDORPF, Albrecht Theodor (1824 – 1868)

De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.

First operation for tumor of the esophagus.

GMN 3456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5585

1863 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

GMN 6052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7393

1865 SANDS, Henry Berton (1830 – 1888)

Case of cancer of the larynx, successfully removed by laryngotomy.

Laryngectomy for papillomata.

GMN 3272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3976

1865 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

GMN 6053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7396

1867 SOLIS-COHEN, Jacob da Silva (1838 – 1927)

Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.

First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.

GMN 3274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3982

1874 GUSSENBAUER, Carl (1842 – 1903)

Ueber die erste durch Th. Billroth am Menschen ausgeführte Kehlkopf-Exstirpation und die Anwendung eines künstlichen Kehlkopfes.

The first complete excision of the larynx for cancer, performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873 and reported by Gussenbauer. The patient left the hospital in good state on 3 March 1874. Also published in Arch. klin. C…

GMN 3282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4009

1878 FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

GMN 6070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7451

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 SCHRÖDER, Karl Ludwig Ernst (1838 – 1887)

Ueber die theilweise und vollständige Ausschneidung der carcinomatösen Gebärmutter.

GMN 6074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7465

1884 KRÖNLEIN, Rudolph Ulrich (1847 – 1910)

Ueber Lungenchirurgie.

Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.

GMN 3174.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4162

1884 THOMPSON, Sir Henry (1820 – 1904)

On tumours of the bladder.

Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.

GMN 4180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6078

1886 PÉAN, Jules-Émile (1830 – 1898)

Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.

Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.

GMN 6084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7487

1887 FRÄNKEL, Bernhard (1836 – 1911)

Erste Heilung eines Larynx-Cancroids vermittelst Ausrottung per vias naturales.

First successful intralaryngeal extirpation of a malignant growth.

GMN 3296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4209

1892 BLOCH, Oscar Thorvald (1847 – 1926)

Om extra-abdominal Behandlung af cancer intestinalis (rectum derfra undtaget) med en Fremstilling af de for denne Sygdom foretagne Operationer og deres Resultater.

Bloch was first to employ the two-stage (Mikulicz) operation for cancer of the colon. See also No. 3527.

GMN 3502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3921

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

1901 BEATSON, Colonel Sir George Thomas (1848 – 1933)

The treatment of cancer of the breast by öophorectomy and thyroid extract.

GMN 5779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6826

1917 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)

Endothelioma of the right bronchus removed by peroral bronchoscopy.

First reported case.

GMN 3194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4243

1922 DUNHILL, Sir Thomas Peel (1876 – 1957)

Removal of intrathoracic tumours by the trans-sternal route.

Dunhill’s operation for the removal of intrathoracic tumors.

GMN 5630.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7220

1927 MAYO, Charles Horace (1865 – 1939)

Paroxysmal hypertension with tumor of retroperitoneal nerve. Report of a case.

First resection of a pheochromocytoma in America, and the second in the world, by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. In 1926 César Roux of Lausanne did the first resection of this rare type of tumor.

GMN 12266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14483

1930 THOMSON, Sir St Clair (1859 – 1943); COLLEDGE, Lionel (1883 – 1948)

Cancer of the larynx.

Thomson’s technique in the laryngofissure procedure for intrinsic cancer of the larynx was published in his Diseases of the nose and throat, London, 1911, pp. 732-37.

GMN 3326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4564

1939 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964); ET AL

Myasthenia gravis and tumors of the thymic region. Report of a case in which the tumor was removed.

First deliberate treatment of myasthenia gravis by thymectomy, with M. F. Mason, H. J. Morgan, and S. S. Riven.

GMN 4771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1422