1465 SABUNCUOGLU (OTTOMAN TURKISH: شرف الدّین صابونجی اوغلی), Şerafeddin (1385 – 1468)
Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)
In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…
GMN 6819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8982
1752 FATIO, Johannes (1649 – 1691)
Der Arzney Doctor, Helvetisch-Vernünftige Wehe-Mutter, oder Gründlicher Unterricht, wie mit den Schwangern, Gebährenden, Kindbetterinnen und neugebohrnen Kindern umzugehen, selbige gebührend zu verpflegen, und in allerhand ihnen zustossenden Kranckheiten zu begegnen seye: Samt einer ausführlichen Beschreibung von Fortpflanzung des menschlichen Geschlechts, und aller weiblichen Leibes-Theilen, auch der Empfängniß, Formir- und Bildung der Frucht im Mutterleibe. Nebst des Verfassers curiösen Anmerckungen, selbst-bewährten Handgriffen, Curen und dazu dienlichen Arzney-Mitteln. Dem löblichen Frauenzimmer, geschwohrnen Weibern, und andern ehrbaren Frauen zu Nutz, mit besonderm Fleisse in fünf Abschnitte eingetheilt. Mit vielen Kupfern und dreyen Registern.
Fatio was probably the first surgeon to study and treat surgical conditions of children in a systematic fashion. His book, first published over 60 years after his death, is divided into five parts: 1) the anatomy of w…
GMN 6357.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8217
1798 DURET, Pierre (1745 – 1851)
Observation sur un enfant né sans anus, et auquel il a été fait une ouverture pour y suppléer.
First successful construction of artificial anus, for congenital atresia, Oct. 20, 1793.
GMN 3429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5378
1860 BODENHAMER, William (1808 – 1905)
A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.
The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …
GMN 3459.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8221
1864 –1867 GUERSANT, Paul Louis Benoit (1800 – 1869)
Notices sur la chirurgie des enfants.
The first general treatise on pediatric surgery. From parts publication. Translated into English by Richard J. Dunglison as Surgical diseases of infants and children, Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Digital facsimil…
GMN 11385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13584
1865 HILLIER, Thomas (1831 – 1868)
Hydronephrosis in a boy four years old, repeatedly tapped; recovery.
Hillier performed the first therapeutic percutaneous nephrostomy for giant hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a four-year old boy.
GMN 4211.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6256
1869 BOURNEVILLE, Désiré-Magloire (1840 – 1909); GIRALDÈS, Joachim Albin Cardozo Cazado (1808 – 1875)
Leçons cliniques sur les maladies chirurgicales des enfants, professées par M. J. Giraldès. Recueillies et publiées par MM. Bourneville et E. Bourgeois; revues par le professeur.
GMN 9660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11847
1874 HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan (1828 – 1913)
A successful case of abdominal section for intussusception.
In 1871 Hutchinson was the first successfully to operate on a case of intussusception in a two year-old infant. Preliminary account in Med. chir. Trans., 1876, 41 (2nd ser.), 99-102.
GMN 3466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8226
1876 HIRSCHSPRUNG, Harald (1830 – 1916)
Et Tilfaelde af Subakut Tarminvagination.
Discouraged by the high mortality of intussusception, Hirschsprung instituted a plan of controlled hydrostatic pressure reduction. By 1905 he was able to present a 35 per cent mortality based on 107 personal cases in …
GMN 6357.55 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8228
1884 SAINT-GERMAIN, Louis Alexandre de (1835 – 1897)
Chirurgie des enfants. Leçons cliniques professées à l'Hôpital des Enfants-Malades... Recueillies et publiées par Pierre-J. Mercier.
GMN 9659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11846
1898 KIRMISSON, Édouard François (1848 – 1927)
Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.
The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…
GMN 10269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12460
1912 RAMMSTEDT, Wilhelm Conrad (Ramstedt) (1867 – 1963)
Zur Operation der angeborenen Pylorusstenose.
The first pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis, incising the pyloric muscle while leaving the mucosa intact and leaving the muscle to heal: “Rammstedt’s operation.” In 1920 Rammstedt discovered that the family name had …
GMN 3539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4043
1939 GROSS, Robert Edward (1905 – 1988); HUBBARD, John Perry (1903 – 1990)
Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.
One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.
GMN 3039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3459
1941 GROSS, Robert Edward (1905 – 1988); LADD, William Edwards (1880 – 1967)
Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.
Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.
GMN 6357.57 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8232
1943 HAIGHT, Cameron (1901 – 1970); TOWSLEY, Harry Albert (1906 – 1993)
Congenital atresia of the esophagus with tracheo-esophageal fistula. Extrapleural ligation of fistula and end-to-end anastomosis of esophageal segments.
Ablation of the tracheo-oesophageal fistula and primary end-to-end oesophageal anastomosis, first achieved in 1941.
GMN 6357.58 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8250
1945 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964); TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)
The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.
The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins.[70] The pr…
GMN 3043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3475
1953 GROSS, Robert Edward (1905 – 1988)
The surgery of infancy and childhood.
Gross developed the specialty of pediatric surgery, inventing numerous operations. This was the first modern comprehensive textbook on the subject.
GMN 6357.59 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8252
1955 KIRKLIN, John Webster (1917 – 2004); ET AL
Intracardiac surgery with the aid of a mechanical pump oxygenator system (Gibbon type): Report of eight cases.
Co-authored with JW Dushane, RT Patrick, DE Donald, PS Hetzel and EH Wood, "Kirklin refined the heart-lung machine (screen type) originally developed by Gibbon, to the point that it allowed the person to receive oxyge…
GMN 10995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13191
1966 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964); RAVITCH, Mark Mitchell (1910 – 1989)
The papers of Alfred Blalock. Edited by Mark Ravitch. 2 vols.
This massive (2026-page) work includes a biographical study of Blalock, his complete bibliography, and biographical sketches of co-authors of Blalock's publications.
GMN 11554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13753
1969 RASTELLI, Giancarlo (1934 – 1970)
A new approach to “anatomic” repair of transposition of the great arteries.
The Rastelli procedure. “Intraventricular rerouting of left ventricular output through the ventricular septal defect to the aorta and establishing of a new right ventricular outflow through the ventriculotomy and an e…
GMN 3047.22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3642
1969 RICKHAM, Peter Paul (1917 – 2003); JOHNSTON, J. H.
Neonatal surgery.
Rickham founded the first neonatal surgical unit in the world, at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. This unit became the benchmark for similar units around the world. It brought about an improvement in the s…
GMN 11917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14122
1986 RICKHAM, Peter Paul (1917 – 2003)
Historical aspects of pediatric surgery. Prog. pediat. Surg., 20.
Well-documented illustrated series of historical articles by various authors.
GMN 6357.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8254
1986 THOMAS, Vivien Theodore (1910 – 1985)
Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas
Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.
GMN 12376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14601
2012 RAFFENSPERGER, John G.
Children's surgery: A worldwide history.
GMN 11386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13585
