1668 MEEKEREN, Job Janszoon van (1611 – 1666)
Heel- en geneeskonstige aanmerkingen.
Van Meekeren was first to record a bone graft. He states (Chap. 1) that he read a report of it in a letter received by the Rev. Engebert Sloot of Slooterdijk from John Kraanwinkel, a missionary in Russia, where the op…
GMN 5735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6519
1778 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth, intended as a supplement to the natural history of those parts.
This and Hunter's The natural history of the human teeth (No. 3675) revolutionized the practice of dentistry and provided a basis for later dental research. Hunter devised appliances for the correction of malocclusion…
GMN 3676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5505
1804 BARONIO, Giuseppe (1759 – 1811)
Degli innesti animali.
Baronio was among the first to attempt transplantation and experimental surgery in animals. He successfully carried out full-thickness skin grafts after detachment from the body, and the first purely scientific resear…
GMN 5736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6523
1822 BÜNGER, Christian Heinrich (1782 – 1842)
Gelungener Versuch einer Nasenbildung aus einem völlig getrennten Hautstück aus dem Beine.
First well-documented full-thickness skin graft, used for a rhinoplasty on a patient whose nose and forehead had been destroyed by uncontrolled lupus. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5740.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6540
1822 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)
Nonnula de regeneratione et transplantatione.
Dieffenbach’s thesis for the M.D., Würzburg.
GMN 5741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6541
1837 BIGGER, Samuel Lenox L. (1809 – 1891)
An inquiry into the possibility of transplanting the cornea, with the view of relieving blindness…
Bigger, a Dublin surgeon, successfully grafted a cornea of one gazelle onto that of another. According to this paper, he first performed this operation in 1835 while he was “a prisoner with a Nomadic tribe of Arabs, a…
GMN 5850.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7181
1851 LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)
Transplantation of malignant tumors.
First experimental transplantation of tumors.
GMN 2614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3116
1870 REVERDIN, Jacques-Louis (1842 – 1929)
Greffe épidermique. Expérience faite dans le service de M. le docteur Guyon à l’hôpital Necker.
Reverdin’s work on the transplantation of free skin, as contrasted with the previous method of pedunculated flaps, attracted much attention. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6597
1871 POLLOCK, George David (1817 – 1897)
Cases of skin-grafting and skin-transplantation.
Pollock used Reverdin’s skin-grafting technique in the treatment of burn contractures.
GMN 2248.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2772
1871 LAWSON, George (1831 – 1903)
On the transplantation of portions of skin for the closure of large granulating surfaces.
Lawson, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, London, was the first successfully to transplant sizeable areas of skin, as compared with the small grafts of Reverdin, and of whole thickness skin as well. Reprinted in No. …
GMN 5751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6599
1872 OLLIER, Louis Xavier Édouard Léopold (1830 – 1900)
Greffes cutanées ou autoplastiques.
First description of intermediate thickness skin grafts. Ollier used large grafts and carried out complete excision of scar tissue and its replacement with skin.
GMN 5752 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6601
1874 THIERSCH, Carl (1822 – 1895)
Ueber die feineren anatomischen Veränderungen bei Aufheilung von Haut auf Granulationen.
Thiersch’s first paper on transplantation of skin. Simultaneous publication in Arch. klin. Chir., 1874, 17, 318-24. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8657
1875 WOLFE, John Reissberg (1824 – 1904)
A new method of performing plastic operations.
Wolfe insisted that in free skin grafts the subcutaneous tissue at the site of the graft must be removed, and that the graft should consist of skin only. His name is perpetuated in the “Wolfe-Krause graft rest”.
GMN 5754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6620
1876 NOVINSKY, Mstislav Alexandrovich (1841 – 1914)
O privivanii rakovikh novoobrazovanii. [On the inoculation of cancerous neoplasms.]
Novinsky successfully transplanted two tumors in dogs. German translation in Zbl. med. Wiss., 1876, 14, 790-91. A fuller report appeared in his thesis K voprosu o privivanii zlokachestvennich novoobrazovanii (eksperim…
GMN 2620.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3144
1878 SELLERBECK, Heinrich (1842 – )
Ueber Keratoplastik.
Sellerbeck was first to use human donor corneas for transplants. He was not very successful, probably because the antiseptics employed were too strong.
GMN 5916.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6818
1881 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
Observations concerning transplantation of bone. Illustrated by a case of inter-human osseous transplantation, whereby over two-thirds of the shaft of a humerus was restored.
First allograft transplantation of bone in humans.
GMN 4346.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5729
1888 WEHR, V
Demonstration der durch Impfung von Hund auf Hund erzeugten Carcinomknötchen.
A tumor transplant from dog to dog was reported by Wehr.
GMN 2620.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3147
1888 HIPPEL, Arthur von (1841 – 1917)
Eine neue Methode der Hornhauttransplantation.
Modern keratoplasty is based on the technique introduced by von Hippel.
GMN 5933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6870
1889 HANAU, Arthur Nathan (1858 – 1900)
Erfolgreiche experimentelle Uebertragung von Carcinom.
Hanau successfully transplanted cancer in mammals.
GMN 2621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3150
1890 LANNELONGUE, Odilon Marc (1840 – 1911)
Transplantation du corps thyroïde sur l’homme.
First thyroid transplantation (for treatment of cretinism).
GMN 3837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4857
1892 PARRISH, B. F.
A new operation for paralytic talipes valgus, and the enunciation of a new surgical principle.
First successful tendon transplantation.
GMN 4363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5812
1893 KRAUSE, Fedor (1856 – 1937)
Ueber die Transplantation grosser ungestielter Hautlappen.
Krause popularized the use of whole thickness skin grafts. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6635
1896 ISRAEL, James Adolf (1848 – 1926)
Zwei neue Methoden der Rhinoplastik.
First free bone graft to the nose. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5755.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6638
1901 LOEB, Leo (1869 – 1959)
On transplantation of tumours.
Loeb successfully transplanted cystic sarcoma of the thyroid in rats. He established the fact that growth of the transplant occurred through proliferation of its peripheral cells.
GMN 2624.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3174
1902 ULLMANN, Emerich (1861 – 1937)
Experimentelle Nierentransplantation. Vorlaüfige Mittheilung.
Successful autotransplantation of kidneys in dogs.
GMN 4229.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5062
1904 BALDWIN, James Fairchild (1850 – 1936)
The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.
Baldwin’s operation.
GMN 6117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7566
1905 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944); GUTHRIE, Charles Claude (1880 – 1963)
The transplantation of veins and organs.
Reports experimental heart transplantation in a dog. See also the earlier paper on pp. 284-5.
GMN 3025.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5482
1906 ZIRM, Eduard Konrad (1863 – 1944)
Eine erfolgreiche totale Keratoplastik.
First successful corneal transplantation (keratoplasty).
GMN 5950.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6949
1906 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944); GUTHRIE, Charles Claude (1880 – 1963)
Uniterminal and biterminal venous transplantations.
"The possibility of transforming a vein into an artery, from a functional point of view, naturally arouses the idea of substituting veins for arteries when the latter are rendered useless by some pathological processe…
GMN 11563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13762
1908 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944)
Transplantation in mass of the kidneys.
Carrel revolutionized vascular surgery. He transplanted the kidney from one animal to another, an operation later carried out successfully in man. For his earlier work on vascular anastomosis and transplantation of vi…
GMN 4235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5089
1908 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944)
Results of the transplantation of blood vessels, organs and limbs.
Carrel showed that arteries kept for days or weeks outside the body can be transplanted successfully.
GMN 3027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5498
1908 LEXER, Erich (1867 – 1937)
Ueber Gelenktransplantation.
First osteoarticular joint transplant. English translation in Clin. orthop., 1985, 197, 1-10. See also his paper, "Substitution of whole or half joints from freshly amputated extremities by free plastic operation," Su…
GMN 4377.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5884
1909 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)
Auto- and isotransplantation, in dogs, of the parathyroid glandules.
GMN 3860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4908
1910 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944)
Latent life of arteries.
Carrel’s experiments showed that it was possible to preserve portions of blood vessels in cold storage for long periods before using them in transplantation. For an appreciation of Carrel, see Garrison’s History, p. 733.
GMN 3028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5501
1911 ALBEE, Fred Houdlett (1876 – 1945)
Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the spine for Pott’s disease. A preliminary report.
The beginning of bone graft surgery as a planned, carefully designed procedure. Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. See No. 5757.
GMN 4384.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5912
1912 SCHÖNE, Georg ( – 1960)
Die heteroplastiche und homöoplastiche Transplantation.
Schöne coined the term “transplantation immunity”. He set out general rules governing the acceptance or rejection of tumor grafts which are essentially the same as the modern “laws of transplantation”. This is a compr…
GMN 2567.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3691
1912 GUTHRIE, Charles Claude (1880 – 1963)
Blood-vessel surgery and its applications.
This book describes Guthrie’s pioneer work in tissue and organ transplantation.
GMN 5756.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6669
1915 ALBEE, Fred Houdlett (1876 – 1945)
Bone-graft surgery.
Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make inlaid, perfectly-fitting grafts. See especially his “Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the …
GMN 5757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6678
1916 MAYER, Leo (1884 – 1972)
The physiological method of tendon transplanation.
Mayer’s method of tendon transfer, using tendon sheaths to preserve the gliding surfaces.
GMN 4386.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5936
1923 NEUHOF, Harold (1885 – 1964); HIRSHFELD, Samuel
The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld.
Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography.
GMN 11695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13896
1924 LITTLE, Clarence Cook (1888 – 1971)
The genetics of tissue transplantation in mammals.
Little established that the homograft reaction was due to genetic differences between donor and recipient.
GMN 2573.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3699
1929 BLAIR, Vilray Papin (1871 – 1955); BROWN, James Barrett (1899 – 1971)
The use and uses of large split skin grafts of intermediate thickness.
Split-skin grafts for covering large areas of granulating surfaces introduced.
GMN 5761.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6704
1930 ELSCHNIG, Anton (1863 – 1939)
Keratoplasty.
Elschnig developed the method of corneal grafting introduced by von Hippel (No. 5933) and produced good results on the human eye.
GMN 5975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7031
1930 THOMAS, Sir James William Tudor (1893 – 1976)
Transplantation of cornea: a preliminary report on a series of experiments on rabbits.
See also his paper in Brit. J. Ophthal., 1934, 18, 129-42.
GMN 5979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7050
1932 CASTROVIEJO, Ramon (1904 – 1987)
Keratoplasty. A historical and experimental study, including a new method.
Castroviejo’s method of keratoplasty.
GMN 5981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7058
1933 MANN, Frank Charles (1897 – 1962); PRIESTLEY, James Taggart (1904 – ); YATER, Wallace M. (1895 – 1976); MARKOWITZ, J.
Transplantation of the intact mammalian heart.
Mann and colleagues accomplished the first transplantation of an intact mammalian heart.
GMN 11688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13889
1935 FILATOV, Vladimir Petrovich (1875 – 1956)
Transplantation of the cornea.
Earlier papers recording the important work of Filatov on corneal transplantation appeared in Russian journals.
GMN 5986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7070
1937 GORER, Peter Alfred (1907 – 1961)
The genetic and antigenic basis of tumour transplantation.
Gorer made the initial discoveries which formed the basis of transplantation genetics. He studied mouse blood groups and described an antigen in erythrocytes (antigen II). His studies established the laws of transplan…
GMN 2576.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4121
1939 STEINDLER, Arthur (1878 – 1959)
Tendon transplanation in the upper extremity.
Correction to this article in Am. J. Surg., 1939, 44, 534.
GMN 4403.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6056
1942 INCLAN, Alberto Francis (1916 – )
The use of preserved bone grafts in orthopaedic surgery.
These studies form the basis of the modern use of bone preserved by refrigeration.
GMN 4404.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6067
