1932 –1933 DOTT, Norman McOmish (1897 – 1973)
Intracranial aneurysms: Cerebral arterioradiography: Surgical treatment.
The first planned intracranial operation for aneurysm.
GMN 4901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5939
1933 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955); FONTAINE, René (1899 – 1979)
Techniques des diverses sympathectomies lombaires.
Lumbar sympathectomy by the antero-lateral extraperitoneal approach.
GMN 4902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5944
1933 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Benign tumors in the third ventricle of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.
GMN 11349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13547
1934 PUTNAM, Tracy Jackson (1894 – 1938)
Treatment of hydrocephalus by endoscopic coagulation of the choroid plexus. Description of a new instrument and preliminary report of results.
GMN 4903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5948
1934 MIXTER, William Jason (1880 – 1958); BARR, Joseph Seaton (1901 – 1963)
Rupture of the intervertebral disc with involvement of the spinal canal.
Demonstration of the causal role of intervertebral disc herniation in sciatica.
GMN 4435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6294
1934 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Benign, encapsulated tumors in the lateral ventricles of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.
GMN 11350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13548
1935 LIVINGSTON, William Kenneth (1892 – 1966)
The clinical aspects of visceral neurology with special reference to the surgery of the sympathetic nervous system.
GMN 4904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5953
1936 OLIVECRONA, Herbert (1891 – 1980); BERGSTRAND, Karl Joseph Hilding (1886 – 1867); TÖNNIS, Wilhelm (1898 – 1978)
Gefässmissbildungen und Gefässgeschwülste des Gehirns.
Olivecrona first successfully removed an intracranial aneurysm in 1932.
GMN 4904.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5958
1936 EGAS MONIZ, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire (1874 – 1955)
Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.
Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originally Anton…
GMN 4905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5959
1936 FREEMAN, Walter Jackson II (1895 – 1972); WATTS, James Winston (1904 – 1994)
Prefrontal lobotomy in agitated depression. Report of a case.
See also the book by the same authors, Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion, and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders. Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1942. By the 1950s lobotomy was large…
GMN 4906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5964
1936 WALTER, William Grey (1911 – 1977)
The location of cerebral tumours by electro-encephalography.
GMN 4907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5967
1937 SJÖQVIST, Carl Olof (1901 – 1954)
Eine neue Operationsmethode bei Trigeminusneuralgie: Durchschneidung des Tractus spinalis trigemini.
Trigeminal tractotomy. See also Acta psychiat. neural. (Kbh.), 1938, Suppl. 17, 1-139.
GMN 4908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5971
1938 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); EISENHARDT, Louise Charlotte (1891 – 1967)
Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.
Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, Hafner,…
GMN 4612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/590
1938 DOGLIOTTI, Achile Mario (1897 – 1966)
First surgical sections, in man, of the lemniscus lateralis (pain-temperature path) at the brain stem, for the treatment of diffused rebellious pain.
GMN 4909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5973
1938 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Intracranial aneurysm of the internal carotid artery cured by operation.
Dandy was the first surgeon to directly clip an intracranial aneurysm.
GMN 11187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13384
1939 TORKILDSEN, Arne (1899 – 1968)
A new palliative operation in cases of inoperable occlusion of the Sylvian aqueduct.
Ventriculocisternostomy for the relief of obstructive hydrocephalus.
GMN 4909.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5985
1939 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); THE HARVEY CUSHING SOCIETY; LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994)
A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.
Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.
GMN 11189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13386
1941 PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976); ERICKSON, Theodore
Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.
Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.
GMN 4910.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5992
1943 TARLOV, Isadore Max (1905 – 1977); BENJAMIN, Bernard (1903 – )
Plasma clot and silk suture of nerves. 1. An experimental study of comparative tissue reaction.
Plasma clot nerve suture. Preliminary communication in Science, 1942, 95, 258.
GMN 4912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5999
1944 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Intracranial arterial aneurysms.
GMN 11352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13550
1945 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Surgery of the brain.
Volume XII in Lewis' Practice of Surgery.
GMN 11353 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13551
1946 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
Harvey Cushing: A biography.
Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.
GMN 11018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13214
1947 SPIEGEL, Ernest Adolf (1895 – 1985); WYCIS, Henry T. (1911 – 1972); ET AL
Stereotaxic apparatus for operations on the human brain.
"The first successful cranial application of stereotactic surgery in humans is credited to the team of Ernest Spiegel and Henry Wycis in the Department of Experimental Neurology at Temple University in Philadelphia (S…
GMN 4912.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6004
1948 MOORE, George Eugene (1920 – 2008)
The clinical use of fluorescein in neurosurgery; localization of brain tumors.
Tumor localization by radio-isotopes. With W. T. Peyton, L. A. French, and W. W. Walker. Preliminary reports in Science, 1947, 106, 130-31; 1948, 107, 569-71.
GMN 4615.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/604
1949 SCOVILLE, William Beecher (1906 – 1984)
Selective cortical undercutting as a means of modifying and studying frontal lobe function in man. Preliminary report of forty-three operative cases.
GMN 4914.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6013
1949 LEKSELL, Lars (1907 – 1986)
A stereotaxic apparatus for intracerebral surgery.
"In 1947 Leksell visited Wycis in Philadelphia and then developed and described his instrument in a publication in 1949. This was the first example of a stereotactic system based on the principle of ‘‘center-of-arc’’.…
GMN 11987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14195
1950 PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976); RASMUSSEN, Theodore Brown (1910 – 2002)
The cerebral cortex of man: A clinical study of localization of function.
GMN 13808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16096
1951 WALKER, Arthur Earl (1907 – 1995)
A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.
Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.
GMN 5017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6605
1952 SACHS, Ernest (1879 – 1958)
The history and development of neurological surgery.
GMN 5018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6606
1954 PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976); JASPER, Herbert Henri (1906 – 1999)
Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.
This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.
GMN 4914.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6016
1954 INGRAHAM, Franc Douglas (1898 – 1965); MATSON, Donald Darrow (1913 – 1969)
Neurosurgery of infancy and childhood.
The first complete textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. Ingraham, a protegé of Harvey Cushing, established the first pediatric neurosurgery unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1929.
GMN 11159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13356
1959 PENFIELD, Wilder Graves (1891 – 1976); ROBERTS, Lamar (1919 – 1978)
Speech and brain mechanisms.
GMN 13242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15507
1959 BAILEY, Percival (1892 – 1973); SCHALTENBRAND, Georges (1897 – 1979)
Einführung in die stereotaktischen Operationen mit einem Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns. Introduction to stereotaxis with an atlas of the human brain. Large folio text plus 2 large folio binders of plates with captions.
One of the most elaborately produced medical books of the 20th century, with numerous very large plates folding out to the size of four folio sheets, and numerous photographs with plastic overlays.
GMN 14227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16544
1959 STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966); RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
GMN 14358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16688
1960 JACOBSON, Julius H. (1927 – ); SUAREZ, Ernesto Luis (1932 – 2017)
Microsurgery in anastomosis of small vessels.
First demonstration of the value of the operating microscope in microsurgery.
GMN 3005.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5334
1960 LASTRES Y QUINONES, Juan B. (1902 – 1960); CABIESES, Fernando Molina (1920 – 2009)
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
GMN 7938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10113
1961 HOUSE, William Fouts
Surgical exposure of the internal auditory canal and is contents through the middle cranial fossa.
House, an otologist, pioneered exploration of the internal auditory canal and removal of acoustic neuromas through the microscope. His success stimulated neurosurgeons to pursue the application of the operating micros…
GMN 11993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14201
1965 KNIGHT, Geoffrey Cureton (1906 – 1993)
Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness.
GMN 4914.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6022
1965 WILKINS, Robert H.
Neurosurgical classics. Compiled by Robert H. Wilkins.
A collection of 52 classic contributions to neurosurgery, translated, where necessary, into English, with an appendix containing over 200 additional references related to the historical development of neurological sur…
GMN 5019.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6644
1965 RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013); KURZE, Theodore (1923 – 2002)
Microsurgical resection of acoustic tumors by a transmeatal posterior fossa approach.
"On August 1st, 1957, Theodore Kurze at the University of Southern California became the first neurosurgeon to use an operating microscope to remove a a neurilemmoma of the VIIIth nerve. The inspiration to develop thi…
GMN 11986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14194
1968 RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013); JANNETTA, Peter Joseph (1932 – 2016)
Microneurosurgery: Application of the binocular surgical microscope in brain tumors, intracranial aneurysms, spinal cord disease, and nerve reconstruction.
GMN 11984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14192
1968 LEKSELL, Lars (1907 – 1986)
Cerebral radiosurgery, I. Gammathalamotomy in two cases of intractable pain.
Leksell Gamma Knife. "Over the subsequent 50 years Gamma Knife surgery has evolved to cover much of what is done in neurosurgery and there are more than 330 Gamma Knife centers all over the world. By the end of 2017 m…
GMN 11988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14196
1969 HARDY, Jules (1932 – )
Transphenoidal microsurgery of the normal and pathological pituitary. In: Clinical neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…1968, 185-217.
Confirmation of Cushing’s idea that a micro-tumor causes Cushing’s syndrome. See No. 3904.
GMN 4914.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6030
1969 RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013)
Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.
The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.
GMN 11990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14198
1969 YASARGIL, Mahmut Gazi (1925 – ); DONAGHY, Raymond Madiford Peardon (1912 – 1991)
Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.
Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…
GMN 11992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14200
1969 WHITE, James Clarke ( – 1981); SWEET, William Herbert (1910 – 2001)
Pain and the neurosurgeon.
This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…
GMN 13809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16097
1973 KELLY, Desmond Hamilton Wilson (1934 – )
Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: Neurophysiological aspects and operative technique.
With A. Richardson and N. Mitchell-Heggs.
GMN 4914.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6033
1977 JENNETT, Bryan (1926 – 2008); TEASDALE, Graham Michael (1940 – )
Aspects of coma after severe head injury.
Glasgow Coma Scale for grading brain injury following head trauma.
GMN 4914.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6035
1978 COURVILLE, Cyril Brian (1900 – 1968); COOPER, William Conrad (1931 – 2006); THOMAS, M. L. Manson
Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.
GMN 8775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10953
1985 BUCY, Paul Clancy (1904 – 1992)
Neurosurgical giants: Feet of clay and iron.
Brief biographical essays by various authors, edited by Bucy. The companion volume, Modern neurosurgical giants (1986) includes articles on living neurosurgeons, written by colleagues. Neither volume includes bibliogr…
GMN 5019.20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6708
