1907 LAMBOTTE, Albin (1866 – 1956)
L’intervention opératoire dans les fractures.
Lambotte developed an external fracture fixation device using pins on either side of the fracture, connected by a solid rod.
GMN 4431.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6276
1923 BANKART, Arthur Sydney Blundell (1879 – 1951)
Recurrent or habitual dislocation of the shoulder-joint.
Blundell Bankart’s operation.
GMN 4432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6278
1927 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.
GMN 4406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6162
1927 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ILBERG, Johannes (1860 – 1930)
Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.
Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.
GMN 6009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7182
1929 BÖHLER, Lorenz (1885 – 1973)
Technik der Knochenbruchbehandlung.
Böhler introduced several new methods and devised new apparatus for the treatment of fractures. His clinic in Vienna became world-famous. 12-13th ed., 1951.
GMN 4433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6282
1929 ORR, Hiram Winnett (1877 – 1956)
Osteomyelitis and compound fractures and other infected wounds: Treatment by the method of drainage and rest.
Orr developed a treatment for open fractures “consisting of thorough debridement, reduction of the fracture, and usually, maintenance of the reduction by the technique of pins transfixing the fragments and incorporate…
GMN 4433.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6286
1931 SMITH-PETERSEN, Marius Nygaard (1886 – 1953); ET AL
Intracapsular fractures of the neck of the femur. Treatment by internal fixation.
Smith-Petersen nail, a three-flanged nail which prevented rotation of the femoral head. With E.F. Cave and G. W. Van Gorder.
GMN 4434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6289
1938 HOFFMANN, Raoul
“Rotules à os” pour la réduction dirigée, non sanglante, des fractures (“ostéotaxis”).
Hoffmann, a Swiss general surgeon with a doctorate in theology and unusual skill in carpentry, developed the versatile Hoffmann system of external fixation devices.
GMN 4435.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6298
1938 TRUETA I RASPALL, Josep (1897 – 1977)
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…
GMN 4435.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6303
1940 WATSON-JONES, Sir Reginald Watson (1902 – 1972)
Fractures and other bone and joint injuries.
Watson-Jones's textbook became known as "the bible." It was reprinted 15 times during the author's lifetime and translated into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. "Throughout its publication, Watson-Jones…
GMN 11654 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13855
1949 RUSH, Leslie Vaughn (1905 – 1987); RUSH, H. Low (1897 – 1965)
Evolution of medullary fixation of fractures by the longitudinal pin.
“Rush pins”, made of specially hardened type 316 stainless steel, for fractures of the long bones.
GMN 4435.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6308
1950 CHARNLEY, Sir John (1911 – 1982)
The closed treatment of common fractures.
“A classic exposition of the non-operative approach” (Peltier).
GMN 4435.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6312
1953 YASUDA, Iwao (1909 – 1983)
Fundamental aspects of fracture treatment. [In Japanese]
First electrically-induced osteogenesis. Yasuda demonstrated that small amounts of electric current applied to bone stimulated osteogenesis at the cathode. He was also the first to describe stress generated potentials…
GMN 4435.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6316
1963 HOLDSWORTH, Sir Frank Wild (1904 – 1969)
Fractures, dislocations and fracture-dislocations of the spine.
Holdsworth classification of spinal injuries.
GMN 4435.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6319
1963 SALTER, Robert Bruce (1924 – 2010); HARRIS, W. Robert (1922 – 2005)
Injuries involving the epiphyseal plate.
Standard classification of growth plate fractures in children.
GMN 4435.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6323
1977 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); STEPHANUS OF ATHENS (550 – 630); IRMER, Dieter (1935 – ); PALLADIUS (550 – )
Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].
GMN 12174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14384
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