1679 YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)

Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô. Or an account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinae. More particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts. Where also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured. And lastly, A new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military surgeon.…

Describes how Yonge used turpentine to arrest hemorrhage, and presents the first account of a flap amputation. It also shows that Yonge was familiar with tourniquets. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 4436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6326

1733 PARK, Henry (1744 – 1831)

An account of a new method of treating diseases of the joints of the knee and elbow.

This was originally a letter to Pott. Park became famous for his operation of excision and arthrodesis as a treatment for destructive joint disease. The title page is misprinted “MDCCXXXIII”; the letter is dated 1783.…

GMN 4438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6333

1770 WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)

An account of a case in which the upper head of the os humeri was sawed off, a large portion of the bone afterwards exfoliated, and yet the entire motion of the limb was preserved.

First recorded excision of the head of the humerus.

GMN 4437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6329

1783 –1788 BELL, Benjamin (1749 – 1806)

A system of surgery. 6 vols.

Bell studied under the Monros at Edinburgh. He was surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, for 29 years. He improved the methods of amputation, introducing the “triple incision of Bell”. Above is his best work.

GMN 5579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7004

1791 –1792 FOURCROY, Antoine François, comte (1755 – 1809)

La médecine éclairée par les sciences physiques. 4 vols.

This work edited by Fourcroy contains in vol. 4 (pp. 85-88) the first description of Chopart’s method of partial amputation of the foot. This is in the form of a note by Lafiteau: “Observation sur une amputation parti…

GMN 4439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6336

1803 MOREAU, P. F.

Observations pratiques relatives à la résection des articulations affectées de carie.

Excision and arthrodesis in joint disease. Moreau was the first to excise the elbow. English translation, Glasgow, 1806. See No. 4438.

GMN 4440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6340

1810 WACHTER, Georg Heinrich (1790 – 1864)

Diss. de articulis exstirpandis, imprimis de genu exstirpato.

GMN 4441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6341

1812 –1817 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)

Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes. (Vol. 5 entitled Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages.) 5 vols.

Larrey was the greatest military surgeon in history. Of him Napoleon said: “C’est l’homme le plus vertueux que j’ai connu”. He was present at all Napoleon’s great battles and one of the few who stood by him on his abd…

GMN 2160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/888

1815 LISFRANC DE ST. MARTIN, Jacques [Lisfranc] (1790 – 1847)

Nouvelle méthode opératoire pour l’amputation partielle du pied dans son articulation tarso-métatarsienne.

“Lisfranc’s amputation” of the foot.

GMN 4443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6346

1820 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)

Observation sur une résection de la mâchoire inférieure.

Dupuytren was the first successfully to excise the lower jaw, in 1812, as recorded in his Leçons orales, 1829, 2, 421-53. The above paper deals with a later operation of the same type.

GMN 4444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6348

1820 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)

A treatise on gun-shot wounds. 2nd. ed.

Successful amputation at the hip-joint, after the battle of Waterloo, 7 July, 1815.

GMN 4445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6350

1820 –1847 FRORIEP, Robert Friedrich (1804 – 1861); FRORIEP, J. J. Ludwig Friedrich von (1779 – 1847)

Chirurgische Kupfertafeln. 4 vols.

This collection of 417 plates on surgical procedures, instruments, and bandages, with 4 pages of explanatory text, was published in 96 parts between 1820 and 1847. Fifty-two of the plates were issued hand-colored. The…

GMN 12750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14996

1821 JAMESON, Horatio Gates (1788 – 1855)

Case of tumour of the superior jaw.

First excision of the superior maxilla, 11 Nov, 1820.

GMN 4446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6352

1822 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)

Case of osteo-sarcoma in which the right side of the lower jaw was removed successfully after tying the carotid artery.

Mott resected the entire half of the bone, necessitating a disarticulation at the temporo-mandibular joint.

GMN 4447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6356

1823 DEADERICK, William Harvey (1773 – 1858)

Case of removal of a portion of the lower maxillary bone.

Deaderick resected a portion of the jaw in 1810. He wrote this paper to obtain priority over Mott (No. 4447).

GMN 4448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/55

1824 ROGERS, David L. (1799 – 1877)

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the superior maxillary bone, with the operation for its removal.

Rogers removed nearly all of the upper jaw. Operation performed in 1810.

GMN 4449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/56

1825 SMITH, Nathan (1762 – 1829)

On the amputation of the knee-joint.

Smith amputated the knee-joint in 1824, being the first in America to do so.

GMN 4450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/57

1827 BARTON, John Rhea (1794 – 1871)

On the treatment of anchylosis, by the formation of artificial joints.

Barton performed a femoral osteotomy between the greater and lesser trochanters to secure motion in an ankylosed hip. This has been called the first successful arthroplasty. Reprinted in Clin. Orthop., 1984, 182, 4-13.

GMN 4451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/58

1827 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)

Successful amputation at the hip-joint.

This is “the first reported amputation at the hip joint found in the American medical literature” (Rutkow). See No. 4462.

GMN 4451.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/59

1828 SYME, James (1799 – 1870)

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the lower jaw.

Syme’s operation of excision of the lower jaw for osteosarcoma.

GMN 4453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/60

1828 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)

An account of a case of osteo-sarcoma of the left clavicle, in which exsection of that bone was successfully performed.

Valentine Mott was an outstanding figure in American surgery during the first half of the 19th century. A pupil of Astley Cooper, he particularly distinguished himself in vascular surgery and in operations involving t…

GMN 4452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/132

1829 –1830 HUTCHINSON, Alexander Copland

Removal of the arm, scapula and clavicle.

Records the first interscapulo-thoracic amputation, performed by Ralph Cuming (d. 1808), a naval surgeon, in 1808.

GMN 4455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/61

1829 SYME, James (1799 – 1870)

Three cases in which the elbow-joint was successfully excised.

GMN 4454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/134

1830 ROUX, Philibert Joseph (1780 – 1854)

Résection des os.

Among the French surgeons of the 19th century, Roux was second in importance only to Dupuytren. He performed staphylorrhaphy in 1819 and sutured the ruptured female peritoneum in 1832; he is also remembered on account…

GMN 4456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/62

1831 SYME, James (1799 – 1870)

Treatise on the excision of diseased joints.

Syme, teacher and father-in-law of Lister, was one of the greatest of the Scottish surgeons. He is remembered for his method of amputation at the ankle (see No. 4459), for his speedy adoption of anesthesia and antisep…

GMN 4457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/63

1838 WHITE, Anthony (1782 – 1849)

Excision of the head of the femur for disease of the hip-joint. IN: S. COOPER: A dictionary of practical surgery. 7th ed., pp. 272-73

White was the first to perform this operation, April 1821.

GMN 4458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8864

1843 SYME, James (1799 – 1870)

Amputation at the ankle-joint.

“Syme’s amputation” at the ankle joint, an operation first successfully performed by him on 8 Sept, 1842.

GMN 4459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/64

1845 –1848 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)

Die operative Chirurgie. 2 vols.

Dieffenbach’s most comprehensive work, covering in addition to reconstructive procedures, virtually all other types of procedures including amputations, paracentesis, laparotomy, hysterectomy, dental extractions, etc.

GMN 5598.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7090

1849 MACKENZIE, Richard James (1821 – 1854)

On amputation at the ankle-joint by internal lateral flap.

“Mackenzie’s operation”, a modification of Syme’s amputation (No. 4459). Mackenzie volunteered for service in the Crimean War and died of Asiatic cholera near Sebastopol.

GMN 4460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/65

1852 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)

Resection of the head of the femur.

First excision of the hip-joint in America. Unfortunately the one-page article provides no details.

GMN 4461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/66

1853 BRASHEAR, Walter (1776 – 1860)

Amputations.

The first successful amputation of the hip-joint was performed by Brashear in 1806 at Bardstown, Kentucky; he first amputated the thigh through its middle third, and tied off the bleeding vessels; then he made a long …

GMN 4462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/67

1853 MCCREARY, Charles (1785 – 1826)

Exsection of the clavicle.

J. H. Johnson (New Orleans med. surg. J., 1850, 6, 474-76) stated that McCreary performed the first resection of the clavicle in the United States on 4 May, 1811. Valentine Mott reported the operation in 1828. See No.…

GMN 4463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/68

1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)

Kostno-plasticheskoye udlineniye kostei goleni pri vilushtshenii stopi. [Osteoplastic elongation of the bones of the leg in amputation of the foot.]

Pirogov’s method of complete osteoplastic amputation of the foot. German translation, Leipzig, 1854.

GMN 4465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/137

1854 HEYFELDER, Johann Ferdinand Martin (1798 – 1869)

Ueber Resectionen und Amputationen.

GMN 4464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8865

1857 GRITTI, Rocco (1828 – 1920)

Dell’amputazione del femore al terzo inferiore e della disarticulazione del ginocchio.

Gritti’s amputation of the thigh was later improved by Stokes (see No. 4470).

GMN 4466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/69

1858 TEALE, Thomas Pridgin (1800 – 1867)

On amputation by a long and a short rectangular flap.

Teale’s method of amputation.

GMN 4467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/70

1864 CARDEN, Henry Douglas ( – 1873)

On amputation by a single flap.

Carden devised a single flap operation, cutting through the femur just above the knee-joint. He published a book on the subject in 1864.

GMN 4468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/162

1865 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912)

On excision of the wrist for caries.

GMN 4469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8867

1870 STOKES, Sir William (1839 – 1900)

On supra-condyloid amputation of the thigh.

Gritti–Stokes amputation (see also No. 4466).

GMN 4470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/71

1883 BERGER, Paul (1845 – 1908)

Amputation du membre supérieur dans la contiguïté du tronc (désarticulation de l’omoplate).

“Berger’s operation”, interscapulothoracic amputation. See also his monograph, Paris, Masson, 1887.

GMN 4471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/72

1894 JABOULAY, Mathieu (1860 – 1913)

La désarticulation interilio-abdominale.

Interilio-abdominal amputation first described.

GMN 4472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/73

1895 GIRARD, Charles (1850 – 1916)

Désarticulation de l’os iliaque pour sarcome.

First successful hind-quarter amputation.

GMN 4473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/74

1898 VANGHETTI, Giuliano (1861 – 1940)

Amputazione, disarticulazione et protesi.

Vanghetti was the first to suggest the use of the musculature remaining above the amputation stump to form a motor unit for artificial limbs – “kinematization of stumps”.

GMN 4474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/314

1906 CECI, Antonio (1852 – 1920)

Tecnica generale della amputazioni mucosi. Amputazioni plastico-ortopediche con metodo proprio secundo la proposta del Vanghetti. Dimonstrazioni pratiche.

Ceci was the first to operate on the lines suggested by Vanghetti.

GMN 4475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/75

1917 KRUKENBERG, Hermann (1863 – 1935)

Eine neue osteoplastische Amputationsmethode des Oberschenkels.

GMN 4476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/315

1918 PUTTI, Vittorio (1880 – 1940)

The utilization of the muscles of a stump to actuate artificial limbs: cinematic amputations.

Putti developed and improved kineplastic surgery.

GMN 4477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/76

1935 GORDON-TAYLOR, Sir Gordon (1878 – 1960); WILES, Philip (1899 – 1967)

Interinnomino-abdominal (hind-quarter) amputation.

One-stage operation.

GMN 4478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/77

1964 MCKHANN, Charles Freemont (1930 – ); MALT, Ronald A. (1931 – 2002)

Replantation of severed arms.

First successful reattachment of a completely amputated human limb.

GMN 4405.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6118