1888 SENN, Nicholas (1844 – 1908)
Rectal insufflation of hydrogen gas an infallible test in the diagnosis of visceral injury of the gastro-intestinal canal in penetrating wounds of the abdomen.
Senn’s method of detecting intestinal perforation by insufflation with hydrogen.
GMN 3494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3903
1889 EINHORN, Max (1862 – 1953)
Die Gastrodiaphanie.
Einhorn devised the method of exploration of the stomach by means of a tube – gastrodiaphany.
GMN 3495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3906
1889 BOAS, Ismar Isidor (1858 – 1938)
Ueber Darmsaftgewinnung beim Menschen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.)
Duodenal aspiration.
GMN 3496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3907
1900 –1901 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)
Ueber Magenspiegelung.
Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.
GMN 3521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4010
1908 HERTER, Christian Archibald (1865 – 1910)
On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.
“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).
GMN 3528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4022
1909 LANE, Sir William Arbuthnot (1856 – 1943)
The operative treatment of chronic constipation.
Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.
GMN 3531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4026
1911 FOCKENS, P
Ein operativ geheilter Fall von kongenitaler Dünndarmatresie.
Treatment of congenital atresia of ileum by lateral anastomosis.
GMN 3536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4036
1918 FINSTERER, Hans (1877 – 1955)
Ausgedehnte Magenresektion bei Ulcus duodeni statt der einfachen Duodenalresektion bzw.
Hofmeister-Finsterer gastro-enterostomy (see No. 3529).
GMN 3543 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4050
1932 SCHINDLER, Rudolf (1888 – 1968)
Ein völlig ungefährliches, flexibles Gastroskop.
Introduction of the flexible gastroscope.
GMN 3553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4064
