1872 ESTLANDER, Jakob August (1831 – 1881)
Eine Methode Aus Der Einen Lippe Substanzverluste Der Anderen zu Ersetzen.
The Abbe-Estlander operation, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip.
GMN 12419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14649
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 BUCK, Gurdon (1807 – 1877)
Contributions to reparative surgery; showing its application to the treatment of deformities produced by destructive disease or injury; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development; and cicatrical contractions from burns.
First American work exclusively on reconstructive surgery.
GMN 5754.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6622
1880 BILLROTH, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 – 1894)
Die Krankheiten der Brustdrüsen.
A monograph on cancer and other diseases of the breast, including a discussion of cancer in the male breast in the final chapter. This work is also significant in the history of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dig…
GMN 5773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6806
1881 ELY, Edward Talbot (1850 – 1885)
An operation for prominence of the auricles.
Otoplasty first described. Ely died very young from tuberculosis.
GMN 5754.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6623
1882 BLUM, Albert (1844 – )
Chirurgie de la main.
The first manual on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 14320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16645
1884 HAGEDORN, Werner (1831 – 1894)
Übereine Modification der Hasenschartenoperation.
Hagedom’s operation is important as forming the basis of most modern methods of unilateral cleft lip repair.
GMN 5754.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6625
1887 ROE, John Orlando (1848 – 1915)
The deformity termed “pug nose” and its correction, by a simple operation.
Roe invented the intranasal approach for corrective rhinoplasty.
GMN 5754.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6628
1889 MANCHOT, Carl (1866 – 1932)
Die Haut Arterien des menschlichen Körpers.
Manchot was the first to describe the vascular territories of the human skin. This work was translated into English by J. Ristic with an introduction by William D. Morain as The cutaneous arteries of the human body (N…
GMN 14299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16624
1891 ROE, John Orlando (1848 – 1915)
The correction of angular deformities of the nose by a subcutaneous operation.
The first reduction rhinoplasty to enhance the appearance of a patient. See No. 5755.3.
GMN 5754.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6629
1892 WEIR, Robert Fulton (1838 – 1927)
On restoring sunken noses without scarring the face.
Reduction rhinoplasty by the endonasal approach. “The beginnings of the logical step-by-step rhinoplasty in use today” (McDowell).
GMN 5754.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6631
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
1896 MACKENRODT, Alwin Karl (1859 – 1925)
Ueber den künstlichen Ersatz der Scheide.
Mackenrodt’s operation for the plastic reconstruction of the vagina.
GMN 6102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7533
1898 MARIE, Pierre (1853 – 1940); SAINTON, Paul (1868 – 1958)
Sur la dysostose cléido-crânienne héréditaire.
In their important description of cleido-cranial dysostosis, Marie and Sainton gave to it its present name. It was first described by Morand (No. 4302.1) in 1760. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics,…
GMN 4369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5850
1898 ABBE, Robert (1851 – 1928)
A new plastic operation for the relief of deformity due to double harelip.
Abbe’s lip-switch flap, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip. This is also known eponymically as the Abbe–Estlander operation, crediting Jakob Estlander …
GMN 5755.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6641
1898 JOSEPH, Jacques (1865 – 1934)
Über die operative Verkleinerung eine Nase (Rhinomiosis).
Joseph rhinoplasty, developed independently of Roe (Nos. 5754.4-5) and Weir (No. 5754.6). Translation in Plast. reconstr. Surg., 1970, 46, 178-81.
GMN 5755.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6645
1898 MONKS, George Howard (1853 – 1933)
Correction, by operation, of some nasal deformities and disfigurements.
Monks developed the modern surgical treatment of rhinophyma.
GMN 5755.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6649
1898 KIRMISSON, Édouard François (1848 – 1927)
Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.
The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…
GMN 10269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12460
1902 MORESTIN, Hippolyte (1869 – 1919)
De l’ablation esthétique des tumeurs bénignes du sein.
Morestin’s method of mammaplasty. He was also responsible for several of the techniques employed in maxillo-facial surgery. Reprinted, Pittsburgh, 1959
GMN 5756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6651
1905 KANAVEL, Allen Buchner (1874 – 1938)
An anatomical, experimental, and clinical study of acute phlegmons of the hand.
"Kanavel produced the classic paper on infection in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1905. In that paper, he described the anatomy and clinical study of acute infections of the hand. This clearly changed the cour…
GMN 14147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16462
1907 MILLER, Charles Conrad (1880 – 1950)
The correction of featural imperfections.
The first book on cosmetic surgery. Miller “was both a quack and surgical visionary, years ahead of his more academic colleagues” (Rogers).
GMN 5756.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6654
1909 BLAIR, Vilray Papin (1871 – 1955)
Underdeveloped lower jaw, with limited excursion. Report of two cases with operation.
Closed ramisection of the mandible for micrognathia or prognathism.
GMN 5756.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6658
1909 DAVIS, John Staige (1872 – 1946)
A method of splinting skin grafts.
The Davis graft was devised by Halsted but Davis popularized its use.
GMN 5756.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6660
1910 LUCKETT, William Henry (1872 – 1929)
A new operation for prominent ears based on the anatomy of the deformity.
Luckett developed the modern operation for the correction of protruding ears.
GMN 5756.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6663
1911 KOLLE, Frederick Strange (1872 – 1929)
Plastic and cosmetic surgery.
First comprehensive work on cosmetic surgery.
GMN 5756.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6665
1912 KANAVEL, Allen Buchner (1874 – 1938)
Infections of the hand: A guide to the surgical treatment of acute and chronic suppurative processes in the fingers, hand, and forearm.
The first comprehensive treatise on hand surgery, and the classic work on tendon and bursal hand spaces relevant to management of hand infections. Kanavel developed the method of forcible injection of radio-opaque mat…
GMN 4386.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5922
1912 BLAIR, Vilray Papin (1871 – 1955)
Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws.
First comprehensive work on maxillofacial surgery. After World War I Blair established the first separate Plastic Surgery Service in the United States at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis.
GMN 5756.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6672
1912 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Die kosmetische Chirurgie. In Handbuch der Kosmetik, ed. M. Joseph.
Briefly describes (p. 688) the first facelift operation. Holländer later stated that the operation was performed in 1901. A pupil of James Israel (No. 5755.1), Holländer is better known today for his series of books o…
GMN 5756.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8658
1917 FILATOV, Vladimir Petrovich (1875 – 1956)
Plastika na kruglom stebl. [Plastic procedure using a round pedicle].
Filatov used a tubed pedicle flap in September 1916. English translation in Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1959, 39, 277-87.
GMN 5757.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6682
1917 GANZER, Hugo (1879 – 1960)
Weichteilplastik des Gesichts bei Kieferschuss-Verletzungen.
Independantly of Filatov, Ganzer devised a tubed flap for repairs about the mouth and jaw.
GMN 5757.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6685
1918 ROBERTS, John Bingham (1852 – 1924)
Congenital clefts of the face.
Roberts introduced the push-back procedure - backward displacement of the velum to ensure adequate speech.
GMN 5757.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6687
1918 ESSER, Johannes Fredericus Samuel (1877 – 1946)
Die Rotation der Wange und allgemeine Bemerkungen bei chirurgischer Gesichtsplastik.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9897
1918 ROBERTS, John Bingham (1852 – 1924)
War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14285
1919 DAVIS, John Staige (1872 – 1946)
Plastic surgery: Its principles and practice.
Davis was the first surgeon to limit his work exclusively to plastic surgery. This was the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.
GMN 5757.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6690
1919 PASSOT, Raymond (1886 – 1933)
La chirurgie esthétique des rides du visage.
Passot was the first surgeon in France to perform facelifts. In this article with 1 illustration, Passot showed "sites of elliptic skin excision of the hairline, the forehead, and the temporal and preauricular areas t…
GMN 7729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9901
1920 GILLIES, Sir Harold Delf (1882 – 1960)
Plastic surgery of the face.
Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.
GMN 5758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6692
1921 ROWBOTHAM, Edgar Stanley (1890 – 1979); MAGILL, Sir Ivan Whiteside (1888 – 1986)
Anaesthetics in the plastic surgery of the face and jaws.
Intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization. See also Magill, I. W., Lancet, 1921, 1, 918; 1923, 2, 229.
GMN 5703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6410
1921 GILLIES, Sir Harold Delf (1882 – 1960); FRY, Sir William Kelsey (1889 – 1963)
A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.
Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.
GMN 5759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6697
1923 KRASKE, Hans (1893 – 1976)
Die Operation der atrophischen und hypertrophischen Hängebrust.
Plastic operation for enlarged breasts.
GMN 5760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6700
1924 GREIG, David Middleton (1864 – 1936)
Hypertelorism. A hitherto undifferentiated congenital cranio-facial deformity.
First description of hypertelorism as a separate entity.
GMN 4392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5970
1925 PASSOT, Raymond (1886 – 1933)
La correction esthétique du prolapsus mammaire par le procédé de la transposition du mamelon.
No vertical scar breast lift technique. Translated into English by Schleich et al, "The aesthetic correction of the ptotic breast by the procedure of nipple-areola transposition - a contemporary translation and commen…
GMN 7728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9900
1926 NOËL, Suzanne Blanche Gros (1876 – 1954)
La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.
Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.
GMN 7724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9896
1928 WARDILL, William Edward Mandall (1894 – 1960)
Cleft palate.
Wardill’s operation for cleft palate.
GMN 5761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6701
1928 DARTIGUES, Louis (1869 – 1940)
Mammectomie totale et autogreffe libre aréolomamelonnaire; mammectomie bilatérale esthétique.
The modern operation of total bilateral mammectomy, with transplantation of the nipple and areola, was especially developed by Dartigues.
GMN 5783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6838
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
1929 ESSER, Johannes Fredericus Samuel (1877 – 1946)
Artery flaps.
GMN 7726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9898
1930 BLAIR, Vilray Papin (1871 – 1955); BROWN, James Barrett (1899 – 1971)
Mirault operation for single harelip.
Modern refinement of Mirault’s precedure for repair of cleft lip.
GMN 5762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6707
1931 VEAU, Victor (1871 – 1949)
Division palatine.
Includes Veau’s operation for cleft palate.
GMN 5763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6709
