1829 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
Illustrations of the diseases of the breast.
Includes one of the earliest descriptions of hyperplastic cystic disease of the breast, which Cooper referred to as “hydatid disease”.
GMN 5769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6794
1840 COOPER, Sir Astley Paston (1768 – 1841)
On the anatomy of the breast. 2 vols.
Anatomical sequel to No. 5769, with outstanding illustrations.
GMN 5769.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6798
1840 BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins (1783 – 1862)
Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.
“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54.
GMN 5770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6801
1854 VELPEAU, Alfred Armand Louis Marie (1795 – 1867)
Traité des maladies du sein et de la région mammaire.
Velpeau was the leading French surgeon of the first half of the 19th century. His treatise on tumors of the breast, his best work, was the most important of its time on the subject. It includes a good account of hyper…
GMN 5771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6803
1874 PAGET, Sir James (1814 – 1899)
On disease of the mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland.
First description of “Paget’s disease of the nipple” –eczema of the nipple with cancer. The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 75-78. Paget was Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, and a great surgical patho…
GMN 5772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6805
1880 BILLROTH, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 – 1894)
Die Krankheiten der Brustdrüsen.
A monograph on cancer and other diseases of the breast, including a discussion of cancer in the male breast in the final chapter. This work is also significant in the history of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dig…
GMN 5773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6806
1883 RECLUS, Jean Jacques Paul (1847 – 1914)
La maladie kystique des mamelles.
“Reclus’s disease”. Reclus was professor of surgery in Paris; he left a classic description of chronic cystic mastitis.
GMN 5774 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6811
1890 –1891 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)
The treatment of wounds with especial reference to the value of the blood clot in the management of dead spaces.
Halsted showed that optimum wound healing was most easily obtained by avoiding hematoma formation. Contains description of Halsted’s method of radical mastectomy – one of the greatest contributions ever made to the tr…
GMN 5776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6816
1892 SCHIMMELBUSCH, Curt Theodor (1860 – 1895)
Das Cystadenom der Mamma.
“Schimmelbusch’s disease”.
GMN 5775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6812
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
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
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
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
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
1908 CORNIL, André Victor (1837 – 1908)
Les tumeurs du sein.
GMN 5781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6830
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
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
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
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
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
