1588 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); JOHN OF ARDERNE (1307 – 1380); ARCEO, Francisco (1493 – 1571); READ, John (1550 – )
A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…
GMN 3416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10207
1730 STAHL, Georg Ernst (1660 – 1734)
De motus hemorrhoidalis, et fluxus hemorrhoidum.
An early work specifically on hemorrhoids.
GMN 3421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5343
1732 LITTRÉ, Alexis (1658 – 1726)
Diverses observations anatomiques.
Littré was first to suggest colostomy in intestinal obstruction – “Littré’s operation”.
GMN 3418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5331
1765 POTT, Percivall (1714 – 1788)
Remarks on the disease commonly called a fistula in ano.
Probably the greatest English classic of colon-rectal surgery. Pott recommended the practice of simple division rather than the newer, more complicated methods proposed by Cheselden and Le Dran, and audaciously pointe…
GMN 3424.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5355
1798 DURET, Pierre (1745 – 1851)
Observation sur un enfant né sans anus, et auquel il a été fait une ouverture pour y suppléer.
First successful construction of artificial anus, for congenital atresia, Oct. 20, 1793.
GMN 3429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5378
1805 FINE, Pierre (1760 – 1814)
Mémoire et observation sur l’entérotomie.
The first recorded colostomy for intestinal obstruction was performed by Fine in 1797. The patient survived 3.5 months.
GMN 3430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5381
1826 PHYSICK, Philip Syng (1768 – 1837)
Extracts from an account of a case in which a new and peculiar operation for artificial anus was performed.
Physick’s operation for artificial anus – colocutaneous fistula formed as a result of mortification from a strangulated hernia.
GMN 3436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5404
1828 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)
Mémoire sur une méthode nouvelle pour traiter les anus accidentels.
Dupuytren invented an enterotome to perform his operation for artificial anus.
GMN 3437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5427
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
1835 BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins (1783 – 1862)
Lectures on diseases of the rectum. III. Preternatural contraction of the sphincter ani.
“Brodie’s pile”. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1938, 2, 929-40.
GMN 3440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5436
1837 BUSHE, George Macartney (1793 – 1836)
A treatise on the malformations, injuries and diseases of the rectum and anus. Text and atlas.
The first American treatise on colon–rectal surgery.
GMN 3441.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5443
1839 AMUSSAT, Jean Zuléma (1796 – 1856)
Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel dans la région lombaire sans pénétrer dans le péritoine.
In 1839 Amussat performed the first lumbar colostomy for obstruction of the colon (“Amussat’s operation”). His work established lumbar colostomy as the method of choice. Translated in Dis. Colon. Rect., 1983, 26, 483-…
GMN 3442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5445
1839 PILLORE, H
Opération d’anus artificiel, par la méthode de Littre, sur un homme adulte qui a survécu vingt-huit jours. In: Amussat, J. Z., Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel
Pillore performed caecostomy in 1776, the patient surviving 28 days. Amussat went to considerable trouble to find the document describing the operation. See No. 3442.
GMN 3443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8850
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
1860 BODENHAMER, William (1808 – 1905)
A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.
The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …
GMN 3459.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8221
1861 LUSCHKA, Hubert von (1820 – 1875)
Ueber polypöse Vegetationen der gesammten Dickdarmschleimhaut.
First authentic description of polyposis of the colon.
GMN 3460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5598
1878 VOLKMANN, Richard von (1830 – 1889)
Ueber den Mastdarmkrebs und die Extirparlo recti.
First excision of the rectum for cancer.
GMN 3470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5639
1884 BODENHAMER, William (1808 – 1905)
A theoretical and practical treatise on the hemorrhoidal disease, givings its history, nature, cases, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.
An encyclopedic work containing considerable history and a comprehensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 3482.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5694
1885 ALLCHIN, Sir William Henry (1846 – 1912)
Case of acute extensive ulceration of the colon.
First detailed description of ulcerative colitis.
GMN 3482.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5697
1887 –1888 HIRSCHSPRUNG, Harald (1830 – 1916)
Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.
Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).
GMN 3489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3886
1887 KRASKE, Paul (1851 – 1930)
Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti.
Kraske introduced the sacral method of resection of the rectum for carcinoma.
GMN 3490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3889
1888 MAYDL, Karel (1853 – 1913)
Zur Technik der Kolotomie.
First successful colostomy.
GMN 3492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3895
1888 MIKULICZ-RADECKI, Jan (Johann Freiherr von) (1850 – 1905)
Zur operativen Behandlung des Prolapsus recti et coli invaginati.
Description of Mikulicz’s important operation for complete prolapse of the rectum.
GMN 3493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3900
1888 ANDREWS, Edward Wyllys (1856 – 1927); ANDREWS, Edmund (1824 – 1904)
Rectal and anal surgery, with a description of the secret methods of the itinerants.
The authors were father and son. An unusual feature of this work was its critical analysis of the methods used by itinerant or untrained practitioners. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 9533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11719
1891 PAUL, Frank Thomas (1851 – 1941)
A method of performing inguinal colotomy, with cases.
Paul’s tube introduced.
GMN 3499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3913
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
1895 PAUL, Frank Thomas (1851 – 1941)
Colectomy.
Paul’s operation of extra-abdominal resection of the colon.
GMN 3515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3990
1902 WEIR, Robert Fulton (1838 – 1927)
A new use for the useless appendix, in the surgical treatment of obstinate colitis.
Weir’s appendicostomy operation.
GMN 3525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4017
1903 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.
Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.
GMN 3526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4018
1903 MIKULICZ-RADECKI, Jan (Johann Freiherr von) (1850 – 1905)
Chirurgische Erfahrungen über das Darmcarcinom.
Development of Bloch’s two-stage Operation for resection of tumors of the rectum. English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 210-29.
GMN 3527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4020
1908 MILES, William Ernest (1869 – 1947)
A method of performing abdomino-perineal excision for carcinoma of the rectum and of the terminal portion of the pelvic colon.
Miles devised the operation of abdomino-perineal resection.
GMN 3528.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4023
1910 BALFOUR, Donald Church (1882 – 1963)
A method of anastomosis between sigmoid and rectum.
Balfour’s operation for resection of the sigmoid colon.
GMN 3532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4027
1910 MAYO, William James (1861 – 1939)
Removal of the rectum for cancer: statistical report of 120 cases.
Mayo’s radical operation for carcinoma of the rectum.
GMN 3534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4031
1935 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.
Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.
GMN 8318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10494
1938 BLANCHARD, Charles Elton (1868 – 1945)
The romance of proctology, which is the story of the history and development of this much neglected branch of surgery.
GMN 5808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6915
1947 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.
A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.
GMN 5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/29
1988 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )
Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.
GMN 8268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10444
2005 GELLER, Markham J.
Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).
Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume edits all of…
GMN 8512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10689
2012 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); BOS, Gerrit
Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
GMN 8258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10434
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