1814 –1815 ROMERO, Francisco

Sur l’hydrothorax et l’hydropéricarde.

First successful pericardiocentesis. The above reference is not to his first writing on the subject, which cannot be traced. See also Dict.Sci. med.,1819, 40, 370.

GMN 3021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5439

1862 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)

Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der Embolie.

Experimental study of the effects of ligation of coronary vessels.

GMN 3008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5365

1873 CALLENDER, George William (1830 – 1878)

Removal of a needle from the heart. Recovery of the patient.

"The first occasion on which a surgeon deliberately operated on an injured heart was in October 1872. This followed a brawl in a public house in East London, after which a 31-year-old man could not find a needle he us…

GMN 11565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13764

1876 HILSMANN, Friedrich Alexander (1849 – )

Ueber die Paracentese des Perikardiums.

Account of first pericardiocentesis for suppurative pericarditis.

GMN 3022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5447

1882 FRANÇOIS-FRANCK, Charles-Émile (1849 – 1921)

Production artificielle d’insuffisances tricuspidienne mitrale et aortique, isolées ou combinées chez le chien.

Experimental valvulotomy. Translation in Amer. J. Cardiol.,1973, 32,993.

GMN 3022.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5461

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 ROSE, Edmund (1836 – 1914)

Hertztamponade: Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.

Rose coined the term "Herztomponade" translated as "cardiac tamponade." He "described the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade and recorded 23 case histories of ruptured or wounded hearts, several of which did not cau…

GMN 12279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14498

1894 DALTON, Henry C. (1847 – )

Stab wound of pericardium; resection of rib; suture of pericardium; recovery.

“This was the first report in America and probably world-wide in which there was a successful evacuation of a traumatic hemopericardium and a suture placed in the pericardium. Dalton’s patient was operated on in Septe…

GMN 3022.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5463

1896 REHN, Ludwig (1849 – 1930)

Fall von penetrirender Stichverletzung des rechten Ventrikel’s. Herznaht.

Rehn was the first successfully to suture a wound of the human heart.

GMN 3023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5467

1897 REHN, Ludwig (1849 – 1930)

Ueber penetrirende Herzwunden und Herznaht.

Before 1896 wounds of the heart had always been regarded as fatal. Rehn’s work marks the begining of cardiac surgery. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of Cardiology, vol. 3, 34-44. See See Karel B…

GMN 3023.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5470

1900 JABOULAY, Mathieu (1860 – 1913)

Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde.

Jaboulay was the first to perform the operation of sympathectomy for the relief of vascular disease.

GMN 3024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5475

1902 BRAUER, Ludolph (1865 – 1951)

Ueber chronich adhäsive Mediastino-Perikarditis und deren Behandlung.

Brauer was first to suggest the operation of cardiolysis, a procedure carried out by Petersen.

GMN 3025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5478

1902 HILL, Luther Leonidas Jr. (1862 – 1946)

A report of a case of successful suturing of the heart, and table of thirty-seven other cases of suturing by different operations with various terminations, and the conclusions drawn.

Hill reported his successful suturing of a knife wound in the left ventricle. His patient, a thirteen-year-old boy recovered. This was the first successful suture of the heart performed in America. Hill argued "that a…

GMN 12249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14464

1904 RICKETTS, Benjamin Merrill (1858 – 1926)

The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 10738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12933

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 GOYANES CAPDEVILA, José (1876 – 1964)

Nuevas trabajos de cirugía vascular; substitución plástica de las arteriás por las venas, ó arterioplastia venosa, aplicada, como nuevo metodo, al tratamiento de los aneurismas.

Goyanes used vein grafts to restore arterial flow.

GMN 3025.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5487

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

1907 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944)

The surgery of blood vessels, etc.

Carrel’s remarkable technique of end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels; see also No. 2909.

GMN 3026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5496

1908 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)

Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.

Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).

GMN 3012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5386

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 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); BRANCH, Joseph R. B.

Experimental and clinical notes on chronic valvular lesions in the dog and their possible relation to a future surgery of cardiac valves.

Cushing and Branch's work was a key step in the early development of surgery of the mitral valves, later realized by Cushing's students Elliot Carr Cutler and Claude Beck in 1924. "Experiments on canine heart valves w…

GMN 10591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12784

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

1910 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944)

Experimental surgery of the aorta and heart.

Carrel attempted the direct placement of a bypass vessel in a dog.

GMN 3028.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5503

1913 JEGER, Ernest

Die Chirurgie der Blutgefässe und des Herzens.

Jeger was the first to advocate the bypass principle for management of peripheral aneurysms.

GMN 2915.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4892

1913 BAUER, Fritz

Fall von Embolus aortae abdominalis, Operation, Heilung.

First successful aortic embolectomy.

GMN 3014.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5401

1913 DOYEN, Eugène-Louis (1859 – 1916)

Chirurgie des malformations congénitales ou acquises du coeur.

First attempt at surgical relief of valvular disease of the heart (congenital pulmonary stenosis). Experimental valvotomy.

GMN 3028.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5511

1914 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)

Etude expérimentelle sur la chirurgie des valvules du coeur.

Tuffier carried out the first successful experimental operation for the relief of chronic valvular disease. He also operated successfully in a case of aortic stenosis.

GMN 3029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5516

1921 HALLOPEAU, Paul (1876 – 1924)

Un cas de cardiolyse.

First pericardiectomy, for constrictive pericarditis.

GMN 3030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5520

1923 CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947); LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)

Cardiotomy and valvulotomy for mitral stenosis. Experimental observations and clinical notes concerning an operated case with recovery.

Successful section of mitral valve for relief of mitral stenosis.

GMN 3030.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5525

1923 VOLHARD, Franz (1872 – 1950); SCHMIEDEN, Viktor (1874 – 1945)

Ueber Erkennung und Behandlung der Umklammerung des Herzens durch schwielige Perikarditis.

First complete pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis.

GMN 3031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5527

1924 KIRSCHNER, Martin (1879 – 1942)

Ein durch die Trendelenburgsche Operation geheilter Fall von Embolie der Art. pulmonalis.

First successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism, a procedure suggested by Trendelenburg in 1908 (see No. 3012).

GMN 3016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5408

1924 BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971); CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947); LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis: Experimental and clinical studies.

The first successful operations on the mitral valves, published in a paper of monograph length. As Surgeon-in-Chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, under whom Beck, Cutler, and Levine worked, Harvey Cushing reported, …

GMN 10592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12785

1925 SOUTTAR, Sir Henry Sessions (1875 – 1964)

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis.

Mitral valvotomy; report of a successful case.

GMN 3032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5529

1929 HARVEY, Samuel Clark (1886 – 1953)

The history of hemostasis.

Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of Medical History, N. S. Vol. I, No. 2, March, 1929.

GMN 11003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13199

1931 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)

Erfolgreiche operative Beseitigung eines Aneurysma der rechten Herzkammer.

First successful surgical intervention in cardiac aneurysm.

GMN 2990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5193

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 LINDBERGH, Charles Augustus (1902 – 1974)

An apparatus for the culture of whole organs.

In 1931, the year before his son’s sensational kidnapping, the celebrity aviator began working with Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute on a perfusion pump which would allow the cultivation of whole organs in v…

GMN 858.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/736

1935 BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971)

The development of a new blood supply to the heart by operation.

By implantation of the pectoral muscle into the pericardium, Beck provided a collateral circulation to the heart for the relief of myocardial ischemia. This paper recorded the first operation on a man. It was preceded…

GMN 3034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5533

1935 BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971); TICHY, Vladimir Leslie (1899 – 1967)

The production of a collateral circulation to the heart. I. An experimental study.

First cardio-omentopexy.

GMN 3035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5535

1936 O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laurence Frederick (1900 – 1940)

An experimental method of providing a collateral circulation to the heart.

By attaching a pedicled omental graft to the surface of the heart (cardio-omentopexy), thus providing a collateral circulation to that organ, O’Shaughnessy made an important advance in the treatment of angina and card…

GMN 3037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3447

1937 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955); ET AL

Arterectomy.

Arterectomy in arterial thrombosis. With R. Fontaine and S. M. Dupertuis.

GMN 3038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3450

1939 GIBBON, John Heysham Jr. (1903 – 1973)

An oxygenator with a large surface–volume ratio.

First heart–lung machine used successfully on an animal.

GMN 3038.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3454

1939 GROSS, Robert Edward (1905 – 1988); HUBBARD, John Perry (1903 – 1990)

Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.

One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.

GMN 3039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3459

1940 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955)

De la résection du carrefour aortico-iliaque avec double sympathectomie lombaire pour thrombose artéritique de l’aorte; le syndrome de l’oblitération termino-aortique par artérite.

Obliteration of the abdominal aorta.

GMN 3040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3464

1940 SMITHWICK, Reginald Hammerick (1899 – 1987)

A technique for splanchnic resection for hypertension; preliminary report.

Smithwick operation for hypertension.

GMN 3041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3469

1941 KING, Edgar Samuel John (1900 – 1966)

Surgery of the heart.

Includes valuable information regarding the history of the subject.

GMN 3042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3472

1941 WILLIUS, Frederick Arthur (1888 – 1972); KEYS, Thomas Edward (1908 – 1995)

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

GMN 3158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4094

1944 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); BAUER, Donald deF.; ASTBURY, Eppie C.

Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.

Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.

GMN 11859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14063

1945 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964); TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins.[70] The pr…

GMN 3043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3475

1945 CRAFOORD, Clarence (1899 – 1984); NYLIN, Karl Gustav Vilhelm (1892 – 1961)

Congenital coarctation of the aorta and its surgical treatment.

Crafoord and Gross (No. 3044.1) pioneered this basic operation in cardiac and pediatric surgery.

GMN 3044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3484