1770 –1773 PORTAL, Antoine (1742 – 1832)
Histoire de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie. 6 vols.
A biobibliographical survey to 1755, including dentistry.
GMN 437.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1091
1774 –1775 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)
Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols
Reprinted, Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1971.
GMN 5789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6862
1774 –1780 PEYRILHE, Bernard (1735 – 1804); DUJARDIN, François (1738 – 1775)
Histoire de la chirurgie depuis son origine jusqu’a nos jours. 2 vols.
Dujardin seems to be the first European to discuss acupuncture within its historical context as an ancient remedy still found to be of practical value. His section on Chinese and Japanese medicine appears on pp. 75-10…
GMN 6374.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8318
1781 BRAMBILLA, Giovanni Alessandro (1728 – 1800)
Instrumentarium chirurgicum Viennense oder, Wiennerische chirurgische Instrumenten-Sammlung.
Brambilla was a personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and the first director of the Vienna hospital and the Josefinum school for military surgeons (now a medical museum). Brambilla provided a history of s…
GMN 10715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12909
1840 MALGAIGNE, Joseph François (1806 – 1865)
Histoire de la chirurgie en Occident depuis de VIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, et histoire de la vie et des travaux d’Ambroise Parè.
Billings considered Malgaigne “the greatest surgical historian and critic the world has ever seen”; Leonardo (No. 5812) says that his greatest contribution to surgery was his unique manner of evaluating surgical techn…
GMN 5790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6865
1859 GRÜNDER, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig (1819 – 1866)
Geschichte der Chirurgie von den Urzeiten bis zu Anfang des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.
GMN 5791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6868
1867 FERGUSSON, Sir William (1808 – 1877)
Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century.
GMN 5793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6873
1868 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865); GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.
An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14634
1876 FISCHER, Georg (1836 – 1921)
Chirurgie vor 100 Jahren; historische Studie.
Reprinted Berlin, Springer, 1978.
GMN 5794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6878
1876 GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
A century of American surgery.
The first serious history of American surgery to 1876. Also published in No. 6586.
GMN 5795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6879
1877 –1878 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); PÉTREQUIN, Joseph Pierre Eléonord (1809 – 1876)
Chirurgie d’Hippocrate. 2 vols
A Greek-French edition with extensive notes and commentaries by J. E. Pétrequin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon. Operations attributed to Hippocrates included trephination and paracentesis; his most import…
GMN 4850.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6814
1883 –1885 ROHLFS, Heinrich (1827 – 1898)
Die chirurgischen Klassiker Deutschlands. 2 vols.
GMN 5796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6881
1886 SOUTH, John Flint (1797 – 1882); POWER, Sir D’Arcy (1855 – 1941)
Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.
South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Digital facsimi…
GMN 5797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6886
1890 YOUNG, Sidney (1843 – )
The annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London, compiled from their records and other sources
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6888
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
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
1902 BUSCHAN, Georg Hermann Theodor (1863 – 1942)
Chirurgisches aus der Völkerkunde.
GMN 5802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6901
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 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 MILNE, John Stewart ( – 1913)
Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.
GMN 5806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6910
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
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 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
1934 FOURMESTRAUX, Jacques de (1879 – 1950)
Histoire de la chirurgie française (1790-1920).
GMN 5807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6914
1937 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590); DOE, Janet
A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré: Premier chirugien & conseiller du Roy
GMN 11215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13412
1943 LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )
History of surgery
GMN 5812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6920
1948 –1949 LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )
Lives of master surgeons.
One volume and supplement.
GMN 6740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7869
1951 KILLIAN, Hans Franz Edmund (1892 – 1981); KRÄMER, G
Meister der Chirurgie und die Chirurgenschulen im Deutschen Raum.
GMN 5813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6923
1958 HURWITZ, Alfred (1909 – 1994); DEGENSHEIN, George A. (1918 – 1979)
Milestones in modern surgery.
Each chapter contains prefatory comments, a short biography of each main builder of the particular milestone (with portrait), and his surgical contribution reprinted or translated in full.
GMN 5813.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6927
1959 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: A history.
GMN 6548.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8189
1960 RANDERS-PEHRSON, Justine (1910 – )
The surgeon’s glove.
Contains an extensive bibliography.
GMN 5813.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6930
1961 ZIMMERMAN, Leo M. (1898 – 1980); VEITH, Ilza (1915 – 2013)
Great ideas in the history of surgery.
GMN 5813.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6936
1963 WHIPPLE, Allen Oldfather (1881 – 1963)
The story of wound healing and wound repair.
See No. 3659.1.
GMN 5813.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6940
1964 ELLIOTT, Isabelle Mary Zena
A short history of surgical dressings.
Based on material collected by James Rawling Elliott (1905-1958).
GMN 5813.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6942
1965 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
A history of the acute abdomen.
GMN 5813.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6946
1966 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Mille ans de chirurgie en occident: Ve-XVe siècles.
GMN 5813.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6950
1966 ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)
Safavid surgery.
The history of surgery during the Safavid dynasty that ruled Persia from 1502 to 1736, and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.
GMN 12570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14809
1967 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016); SANDISON, Andrew Tawse (1923 – 1982)
Diseases in antiquity: a survey of the diseases, injuries and surgery of early populations.
GMN 2312.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2985
1968 MICHLER, Markwart (1923 – 2001)
Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.
GMN 8406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10583
1975 MAJNO, Guido (1922 – 2010)
The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.
Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.
GMN 5813.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6961
1975 DULIEU, Louis (1917 – 2003)
La chirurgie à Montpellier de ses origines au début du XIXe siècle.
GMN 8633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10810
1978 WANGENSTEEN, Owen Harding (1898 – 1981); WANGENSTEEN, Sarah D.
The rise of surgery from empiric craft to scientific discipline.
Not a systematic history but an assessment of those technical factors that contributed to or retarded the advance of surgery.
GMN 5813.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6966
1980 CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005); ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); CHRISTANSON, Eric H.
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.
GMN 6596.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8507
1980 GELFAND, Toby (1942 – )
Professionalizing modern medicine: Paris surgeons and medical science and institutions in the 18th century.
GMN 11454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13653
1981 RAVITCH, Mark Mitchell (1910 – 1989)
A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.
GMN 10329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12521
1983 EARLE, A. Scott
Surgery in America. From the colonial era to the twentieth century. Second edition.
Well-chosen readings from original published sources, with informative commentary.
GMN 5813.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6974
1983 MOULIN, Daniël de (1919 – 2002)
A short history of breast cancer.
GMN 7871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10043
1987 ORGAN, Claude H. Jr. (1926 – 2005); KOSIBA, Margaret M.
A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,
GMN 5813.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6979
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