1907 MILNE, John Stewart ( – 1913)

Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.

GMN 5806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6910

1908 SCHLOFFER, Hermann (1868 – 1937)

Chronisch entzündliche Bauchdeckengeschwülste nach Bruchoperationen.

“Schloffer’s tumor” – a rare inflammatory pseudotumor of the abdomen. It usually appears several years after abdominal surgery, including herniotomy, or trauma.

GMN 2634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3226

1908 STUMPF, R

Beitrag zur Magenchirurgie.

Report of Hofmeister’s modification of the Billroth II gastro-enterostomy.

GMN 3529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4024

1908 ASCHOFF, Karl Albert Ludwig (1866 – 1942)

Die Wurmfortsatzentzündung.

Aschoff’s theory of the enterogenous origin of appendicitis.

GMN 3572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4087

1908 CORNIL, André Victor (1837 – 1908)

Les tumeurs du sein.

GMN 5781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6830

1909 HARTMANN, Henri Albert (1860 – 1952)

Some considerations upon high amputation of the rectum.

“Hartmann’s critical point”, the site on the large intestine where the lowest sigmoid artery meets the superior rectal arterial branch.

GMN 789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/104

1909 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912); GODLEE, Sir Rickman John (1849 – 1925); CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878 – 1958); CHEYNE, Sir William Watson (1852 – 1932); WILLIAMS, Sir Dawson (1854 – 1928); MARTIN, C. J.

The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.

Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the antiseptic…

GMN 85 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1407

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

1909 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)

Hemorrhage and transfusion.

GMN 5628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7211

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

1911 PÓLYA, Jenő Sándor [Eugen Alexander] (1876 – 1944)

Zur Stumpversorgung nach Magenresektion.

Pólya’s modification of the Billroth II operation. Pólya is believed to have been murdered by a Nazi group during the siege of Budapest by the Russians in December, 1944, although his body was never recovered.

GMN 3537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4038

1912 –1913 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)

Thymektomie bei einem Fall von Morbus Basedowi mit Myasthenie.

Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Reported by C. H. Schumacher and – . Roth.

GMN 4764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1411

1912 OMBRÉDANNE, Louis (1871 – 1956)

Technique chirurgicale infantile: Indications opératoires, opérations courantes.

Ombrédanne improved surgical techniques for the correction of undescended testicles, cleft palate and penile hypospadias in children.

GMN 14126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16437

1913 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)

The kinetic theory of shock and its prevention through anoci-association (shockless operation).

Crile advanced the anoci-association concept in which local and general anesthesia are combined in a sequence to eliminate pre-operative fear and tension.

GMN 5629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7213

1915 GRAY, Henry McIlree Williamson (1870 – 1938)

Treatment of gunshot wounds by excision and primary suture.

Gray revived débridement of wounds, with primary suture. This procedure has been traditionally credited to Larrey and Desault. Larrey (No. 2160) employed excision and primary suture only for treatment of wounds of the…

GMN 2177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1216

1915 DAKIN, Henry Drysdale (1880 – 1952)

On the use of certain antiseptic substances in the treatment of infected wounds.

Eusol and chloramine-T. “Dakin’s solution” was employed by Carrel (No. 5642) in the Carrel–Dakin method of irrigation of wounds.

GMN 1903.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2653

1915 CARREL, Alexis (1873 – 1944); DAKIN, Henry Drysdale (1880 – 1952); DEHELLY, Georges; ET AL

Traitement abortif de l’infection des plaies.

Carrel–Dakin treatment of wounds. With J. Daufresne and M. Dumas. Carrel & Dehelly expanded this into a monograph entitled Le traitement des plaies infectées. Paris: Masson et Cie, 1917. That was rapidly translated in…

GMN 5642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7267

1916 MORISON, James Rutherford (1853 – 1939)

The treatment of infected suppurating war wounds.

Introduction of “BIPP” in the treatment of wounds, an acronym for bismuth iodoform parafin paste.

GMN 5644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7273

1916 CAMERON, Sir Charles Alexander (1830 – 1921)

A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.

First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6537.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8150

1917 BROWNING, Carl Hamilton (1881 – 1972); ET AL

Flavine and brilliant green, powerful antiseptics with low toxicity to the tissues: their use in the treatment of infected wounds.

Introduction of acriflavine. With R. Gulbransen, E. L. Kennaway, and L. H. D. Thomton.

GMN 1905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2656

1917 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)

Endothelioma of the right bronchus removed by peroral bronchoscopy.

First reported case.

GMN 3194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4243

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

1919 LAROQUE, G. Paul (1876 – 1934)

The permanent cure of inguinal and femoral hernia. A modification of the standard operative procedures.

Laroque combined a superior transperitoneal gridiron incision with a Bassini repair.

GMN 3608.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4494

1919 DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968); LAIDLAW, Sir Patrick Playfair (1881 – 1940)

Histamine shock.

Experimental shock produced by histamine and shown to be similar to traumatic and surgical shock.

GMN 5630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7217

1920 CHEATLE, Sir George Lenthal (1865 – 1951)

An operation for the radical cure of inguinal and femoral hernia.

First preperitoneal approach to hernia repair.

GMN 3608.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4496

1921 –1924 PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690); HEIBERG, Johan Ludvig (1854 – 1928)

Paulus Aegeneta [Opera] ed. J.L. Heiberg. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX. 2 vols.

Standard Greek text.

GMN 37 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8761

1921 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

GMN 10823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13019

1922 HANDLEY, William Sampson (1872 – 1962)

Cancer of the breast and its treatment. 2nd ed.

Sampson Handley advanced the theory that in mammary cancer metastasis is due to extension along lymphatic vessels – “lymphatic permeation” – and not to dissemination byway of the blood stream. The book was first publi…

GMN 5782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6833

1922 DUNHILL, Sir Thomas Peel (1876 – 1957)

Removal of intrathoracic tumours by the trans-sternal route.

Dunhill’s operation for the removal of intrathoracic tumors.

GMN 5630.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7220

1923 GALLIE, William Edward (1882 – 1959); LEMESURIER, Arthur Baker (1889 – 1982)

Living sutures in the treatment of hernia.

Gallie and LeMesurier used fascial sutures in their operation for inguinal hernia.

GMN 3609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4498

1924 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922); BURKET, Walter Cleveland (1888 – 1974)

Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.

In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…

GMN 86.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1447

1925 STROMAYR, Caspar ( – 1566); BRUNN, Walter Albert Ferdinand von (1876 – 1952)

Die Handschrift des Schnitt- und Augenarztes Caspar Stromayr in Lindau im Bodensee: In der Lindauer Handschrift (P.1.46) vom 4. Juli 1559. Mit einer historischen Einführung und Wertung von Walter von Brunn.

Stroymayr's manuscript was discovered in Lindau in 1909, and remained unpublished until the above edition, which reproduced his drawings in color. Like Bartisch (No. 5817) Stromayr specialized in hernia repair and eye…

GMN 3573.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8659

1926 LANE-CLAYPON, Janet Elizabeth (1877 – 1967)

A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.

First modern case-control study.

GMN 5782.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6835

1927 WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959); ET AL

Carcinoma of the islands of the pancreas; hyperinsulinism and hypoglycemia.

R. M. Wilder, F. N. Allan, M. H. Power, and H. E. Robertson reported the occurrence of carcinoma with hyperinsulinism. They also reported the first operation for hyperinsulinism performed on December 2, 1926 by Willia…

GMN 3972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5280

1927 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)

Mechanism and treatment of experimental shock. I. Shock following hemorrhage.

First of a series of papers in the Archives. See also No. 5630.3.

GMN 5630.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7223

1927 MAYO, Charles Horace (1865 – 1939)

Paroxysmal hypertension with tumor of retroperitoneal nerve. Report of a case.

First resection of a pheochromocytoma in America, and the second in the world, by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. In 1926 César Roux of Lausanne did the first resection of this rare type of tumor.

GMN 12266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14483

1928 DARTIGUES, Louis (1869 – 1940)

Mammectomie totale et autogreffe libre aréolomamelonnaire; mammectomie bilatérale esthétique.

The modern operation of total bilateral mammectomy, with transplantation of the nipple and areola, was especially developed by Dartigues.

GMN 5783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6838

1929 SPIVACK, Julius Leo (1889 – 1956)

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie.

Introduction of tubo-valvular gastrostomy.

GMN 3549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4060

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

1930 THOMSON, Sir St Clair (1859 – 1943); COLLEDGE, Lionel (1883 – 1948)

Cancer of the larynx.

Thomson’s technique in the laryngofissure procedure for intrinsic cancer of the larynx was published in his Diseases of the nose and throat, London, 1911, pp. 732-37.

GMN 3326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4564

1930 BREASTED, James Henry (1865 – 1935)

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.

At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…

GMN 4850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6807

1930 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)

Experimental shock. The cause of the low blood pressure produced by muscle injury.

Blalock “demonstrated that surgical shock is not due to the elaboration of toxins nor to reflex neurologic mechanisms, but … to decrease in circulating the blood volume” (M.M. Ravitch). He wrote many papers on the sub…

GMN 5630.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7225

1930 PLARR, Victor Gustave (1863 – 1929)

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…

GMN 6730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7850

1931 BAER, William Stevenson (1872 – 1931)

The treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with the maggot (larva of the blow fly).

Larrey observed the therapeutic effect of maggots on wounds; W. S. Baer inaugurated the method of treating osteomyelitis by this means (“Baer therapy”).

GMN 4399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6011

1931 CHEATLE, Sir George Lenthal (1865 – 1951); CUTLER, Max (1899 – 1984)

Tumours of the breast. Their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

GMN 5784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6840

1931 CUTLER, Max (1899 – 1984)

The cause of “painful breasts” and treatment by means of ovarian residue.

Cutler was the first to employ ovarian hormone systematically in the treatment of chronic mastitis.

GMN 5785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6843

1932 WANGENSTEEN, Owen Harding (1898 – 1981)

The early diagnosis of acute intestinal obstruction with comments on pathology and treatment. With a report of successful decompression of three cases of mechanical bowel obstruction by nasal catheter suction siphonage.

Wangensteen’s apparatus for relief of acute intestinal obstruction. See also his Intestinal Obstructions: Physiological, pathological and clinical considerations with emphasis on therapy, including description of oper…

GMN 3554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4065

1932 FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881 – 1955)

On the specific antibacterial properties of penicillin and potassium tellurite. Incorporating a method of demonstrating some bacterial antagonisms.

In this paper Fleming first described the use of penicillin as an antibacterial agent in man, and reported on experiments using it as a wound dressing for septic wounds. He also corrected the species name from Penicil…

GMN 10784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12980

1933 ADAIR, Frank Earl (1887 – 1981)

Plasma cell mastitis–a lesion simulating mammary carcinoma.

First description of plasma-cell mastitis.

GMN 5788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6854

1934 FOURMESTRAUX, Jacques de (1879 – 1950)

Histoire de la chirurgie française (1790-1920).

GMN 5807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6914