1892 WELCH, William Henry (1850 – 1934)

Conditions underlying the infection of wounds.

Discovery of Staph. epidermidis (albus) and its relation to the infection of wounds.

GMN 5621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7179

1893 FRANK, Rudolf (1862 – 1913)

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.

See No. 3512.

GMN 3508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3966

1893 PÉNIÈRES, L

De la gastrostomie par la méthode de la valvule ou du plissement de la muqueuse stomacale.

Pénières of Toulouse conceived the idea of the valvular method of gastrostomy.

GMN 3509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3970

1893 SENN, Nicholas (1844 – 1908)

Enterorrhaphy; its history, technique and present status.

Senn, Professor of Surgery at Chicago, was one of the first to investigate experimentally the subject of gastro-intestinal anastomosis.

GMN 3511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3980

1893 SSABANEJEW, J. F.

Über die Anlegung einer röhrenformigen Magenfistel bei Verengerungen der Speiseröhre.

Ssabanejew and Frank independently developed a new method of gastrostomy, the Ssabanejew-Frank operation. The above is an abstract of the original, which appeared in Khirurgitscheski Vestnik, June 1893.

GMN 3512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3983

1893 BASSINI, Edoardo (1844 – 1924)

Nuovo metodo operativo per la cura radicale dell’ ernia crurale.

Bassini’s operation for femoral hernia.

GMN 3602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4437

1893 FRANKS, Sir Kendal Matthew St John (1851 – 1920)

Resection of the intestine and immediate suture in gangrenous hernia.

Franks finally demonstrated the advantages of primary resection for gangrenous gut in strangulated hernia.

GMN 3603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4439

1893 LOCKWOOD, Charles Barrett (1856 – 1914)

The radical cure of femoral and inguinal hernia.

Lockwood’s operation for femoral hernia.

GMN 3604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4442

1894 TARNIER, Étienne Stéphane (1828 – 1897)

De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.

Tarnier was the first to adopt Listerism in obstetrics. In the discussion following a paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., London, 1881, 4, 390-391, he showed that he was the first to employ carbolic acid solution in obs…

GMN 5639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7259

1894 –1895 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

The results of operations for the cure of cancer of the breast performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894.

Halsted’s operation invariably excised the pectoralis major muscle in radical mastectomy. His operation, modified by the retention of the pectoral muscles, remains the cornerstone of surgical treatment of carcinoma of…

GMN 5640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7262

1894 LANFRANC OF MILAN, Guido [Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, Lanfrancus Mediolanensis] (1250 – 1306); FLEISCHHACKER, Robert von (1855 – 1937)

Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11117

1895 BATTLE, William Henry (1855 – 1936)

Modified incision for removal of the vermiform appendix.

“Battle’s incision”.

GMN 3514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3988

1895 ANDREWS, Edward Wyllys (1856 – 1927)

Imbrication or lap joint method; a plastic operation for hernia.

Described imbrication of flaps in hernia repairs.

GMN 3604.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4469

1895 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); DENNIS, Frederic Shepard (1850 – 1934)

The history and literature of surgery. IN: System of surgery, edited by Frederic S. Dennis, assisted by John S. Billings. 1, 17-144.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 5799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6891

1896 BEATSON, Colonel Sir George Thomas (1848 – 1933)

On the treatment of inoperable cases of carcinoma of the mamma: suggestions for a new method of treatment, with illustrative cases.

Öophorectomy in the treatment of breast cancer.

GMN 5778.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6824

1897 –1899 SCHLATTER, Carl B. (1864 – 1934)

Ueber Ernährung und Verdauung nach vollständiger Entfernung des Magens, Oesophagoenterostomie, beim Menschen.

First successful total gastrectomy.

GMN 3517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3997

1897 –1898 BALDY, John Montgomery (1860 – 1934)

First removal of the stomach in America.

Operation performed by Baldy in 1893. He refers to a claim in J. Amer. med. Ass., 1898, 30, 341-44 giving credit for the first excision of the stomach in America to A. C. Bernays (1854-1907). While Baldy probably dese…

GMN 3518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4000

1898 BLOODGOOD, Joseph Colt (1867 – 1935)

The transplantation of the rectus muscle in certain cases of inguinal hernia in which the conjoined tendon is obliterated.

Bloodgood’s operation for inguinal hernia. See also Ann. Surg., 1919, 70, 81-88.

GMN 3604.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4471

1898 LOTHEISSEN, Georg (1868 – 1941)

Zur Radikaloperation der Schenkelhernien.

Lotheissen’s operation for femoral hernia.

GMN 3605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4473

1898 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

A clinical and histological study of certain adenocarcinomata of the breast, and a brief consideration of the supraclavicular operations for cancer of the breast from 1889 to 1898 at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

GMN 5778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6823

1898 GURLT, Ernst Julius (1825 – 1899)

Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung. Volkschirugie - Alterthum - Mittelalter - Renaissance. 3 vols.

A history of surgery to the end of the 16th century. Includes translations from the literature and illustrations of instruments. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 5800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6894

1898 TILLMANS, Robert Hermann (1844 – 1927)

Hundert Jahre Chirurgie.

History of 18th-century German surgery.

GMN 5801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6896

1898 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)

Operative gynecology. 2 vols.

Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most famous …

GMN 6108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7546

1898 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

Miniature hammers and the suture of the bile ducts.

Illustrated by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 13224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15488

1899 TRUAX, Charles (1852 – 1918)

The mechanics of surgery.

An encyclopedic work that described illustrated and analysed the entire range of instrumentation employed in medical and surgical practice at the end of the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmons…

GMN 2680.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3563

1899 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)

Contribution to the surgery of the bile passages, especially of the common bile-duct.

“Among Halsted’s many outstanding surgical accomplishments those related to surgery of the biliary tract are lesser known. However, he is commonly credited with performing the first successful operation for a primary …

GMN 3639.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4642

1899 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

GMN 4191.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6119

1899 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)

An experimental research into surgical shock.

Crile saw and recorded elevations in systemic and portal venous pressures under experimental shock.

GMN 5622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7183

1899 BERGER, Paul (1845 – 1908)

De l’emploi du masque dans les opérations.

Introduction of the gauze face mask, October 1897.

GMN 5641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7265

1900 MAYO, William James (1861 – 1939)

Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.

Mayo’s operation of partial gastrectomy. Mayo was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.

GMN 3522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4012

1900 FOWLER, George Ryerson (1848 – 1906)

Diffuse septic peritonitis, with special reference to a new method of treatment, namely, the elevated head and trunk posture, to facilitate drainage into the pelvis, with a report of nine consecutive cases of recovery.

First description of the “Fowler position”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 551-80. Fowler was preceded in this innovation by Charles White. See No. 6270.

GMN 5623 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7194

1901 DEPAGE, Antoine (1862 – 1925)

Nouveau procédé pour la gastrostomie.

Depage used a tube formed from the anterior wall of the stomach, lined with mucous membrane, in his gastrostomy operation.

GMN 3523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4014

1901 ROBSON, Sir Arthur William Mayo (1853 – 1933); MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)

Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.

GMN 3524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4016

1901 BATTLE, William Henry (1855 – 1936)

Abstract of a clinical lecture on femoral hernia.

Battle’s operation for femoral hernia.

GMN 3606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4474

1901 MAYO, William James (1861 – 1939)

An operation for the radical cure of umbilical hernia.

Mayo’s operation for umbilical hernia.

GMN 3607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4477

1901 BEATSON, Colonel Sir George Thomas (1848 – 1933)

The treatment of cancer of the breast by öophorectomy and thyroid extract.

GMN 5779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6826

1901 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)

An experimental and clinical research into certain problems relating to surgical operations.

Crile made important contributions to knowledge regarding shock. He originated the theory that it is due to exhaustion of the vasomotor center. (See also No. 5629.) Chapter V: On the physiologic action of cocain and e…

GMN 5624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7198

1901 OCHSNER, Albert John (1858 – 1925)

The cause of diffuse peritonitis complicating appendicitis and its prevention.

Ochsner was professor of clinical surgery at the University of Illinois. The above is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 600-26.

GMN 5625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7202

1902 BUSCHAN, Georg Hermann Theodor (1863 – 1942)

Chirurgisches aus der Völkerkunde.

GMN 5802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6901

1902 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

On the avoidance of shock in major amputations by cocainization of large nerve-trunks preliminary to their division.

William S. Halsted was first to use infiltration anesthesia (see No. 5679) and it was later developed by Cushing.

GMN 5689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7419

1903 BIER, August Karl Gustav (1861 – 1949)

Hyperaemie als Heilmittel.

Bier introduced hyperemia, active and passive, as an adjuvant in surgical therapy. English translation, Chicago, A. Robertson, 1905. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 5626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7206

1903 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)

Blood-pressure in surgery.

GMN 5627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7208

1903 LIOSNER, S. (1876 – )

Du masque opératoire. Thèse presentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine du Montpellier....

The medical thesis on medical and surgical masks by a woman medical student at Montpellier, who, as indicated on the title page, was born in Witebsk, Russia in 1876. She was also characterized as "Mlle." The thesis in…

GMN 13019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15269

1905 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); HURDON, Elizabeth (1869 – 1941); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)

The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.

The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 3571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4086

1905 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)

The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.

GMN 5803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6903

1905 HELFREICH, Friedrich Christian (1842 – 1927)

Geschichte der Chirurgie. In. T. PUSCHMANN’S Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 3, 1-306.

GMN 5804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6904

1906 BLOODGOOD, Joseph Colt (1867 – 1935)

Senile parenchymatous hypertrophy of female breast.

Bloodgood’s theory of the causation of chronic mastitis.

GMN 5780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6828

1906 SMITH, Stephen (1823 – 1922)

The evolution of American surgery. IN: American practice of surgery, Edited by J.D. Bryant and A.H. Buck, 2, 1-67.

GMN 5805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6908

1907 –1916 SUŚRUTA, (Sushruta); BHISHAGRATNA, Kaviraj Kunjalal (1865 – )

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/899

1907 FERGUSON, Alexander Hugh (1853 – 1912)

The technic of modern operations for hernia.

Includes description of the Ferguson operation.

GMN 3608.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4480