Entry Nos. 3500–3599

1898

#2687.1

The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays.

Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He showed that bismuth, opaque to x rays, could be of great use in conjunction with roentgenology in the investigation of the digestive tract. See No. 1029.

1774

#3357

Traité des maladies chirurgicales et des opérations qui leur conviennent. 3 vols.

Records (Vol, 1, pp. 153, 160) the first successful operation for mastoiditis, performed by Petit in 1736. “Petit’s hernia” and “triangle” described (vol. 2, pp. 256-58). (See also No. 3357.) A lumbar hernia had previ…

1891

#3500

Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode der Verdauungsorgane und einige Resultate derselben.

Sahli’s test for estimating the functional activity of the stomach.

1892

#3501

Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.

Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.

1892

#3502

Om extra-abdominal Behandlung af cancer intestinalis (rectum derfra undtaget) med en Fremstilling af de for denne Sygdom foretagne Operationer og deres Resultater.

Bloch was first to employ the two-stage (Mikulicz) operation for cancer of the colon. See also No. 3527.

1892

#3503

On achylia gastrica.

Einhorn introduced the concept of achylia gastrica, to indicate a primary nervous functional disorder of the gastric secretion.

1892

#3504

De la gastro-duodénostomie.

Introduction of gastroduodenostomy.

1892

#3505

Ein Fall von einem frei in die Bauchhöhle perforirten Magengeschwür; Laparotomie; Naht der Perforationsstelle; Heilung.

In 1892 Ludwig Heusner (1846-1916) successfully sutured a perforated gastric ulcer, the first successful case on record. It was reported by H. Kriege.

1892

#3506

Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.

First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.

1892

#3507

Cholecysto-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, entero-intestinal anastomosis, and approximation without sutures.

“Murphy’s button” introduced.

1893

#3508

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.

See No. 3512.

1893

#3509

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.

1893

#3510

On diseases of the duodenum.

A careful examination of the records of post mortems carried out at Guy’s Hospital, 1826-92, was made by Perry and Shaw, who showed that of 70 reports of duodenal ulcer, ten occurred in cases of severe burns.

1893

#3511

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.

1893

#3512

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.

1894

#3513

Eine Methode zur titrimetrischen Bestimmung der hauptsächlichsten Factoren der Magenacidität.

Toepfer’s test for hydrochloric acid in gastric juice.

1895

#3514

Modified incision for removal of the vermiform appendix.

“Battle’s incision”.

1895

#3515

Colectomy.

Paul’s operation of extra-abdominal resection of the colon.

1896

#3516

Zur Anwendung des Röntgenschen Verfahrens in der Medicin.

Becher introduced a solution of lead into the stomach of a guinea-pig, making it opaque to x rays; he thus showed the possibility of radiological diagnosis of gastric disease.

1897 –1899

#3517

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

First successful total gastrectomy.

1897 –1898

#3518

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…

1899

#3520

Ueber multiple falsche Darmdivertikel in der Flexura sigmoidea.

A false diverticulum of the sigmoid flexure, described by Graser, has been given the eponym “Graser’s diverticulum”.

1900 –1901

#3521

Ueber Magenspiegelung.

Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.

1900

#3522

Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.

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

1901

#3523

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.

1901

#3524

Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.

1902

#3525

A new use for the useless appendix, in the surgical treatment of obstinate colitis.

Weir’s appendicostomy operation.

1903

#3526

Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.

Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.

1903

#3527

Chirurgische Erfahrungen über das Darmcarcinom.

Development of Bloch’s two-stage Operation for resection of tumors of the rectum. English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 210-29.

1908

#3528

On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.

“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).

1908

#3529

Beitrag zur Magenchirurgie.

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

1909

#3530

Essais de traitement de quelques cas d’épithélioma de l’oesophage par les applications locales directes de radium.

Radium therapy by means of the esophagoscope.

1909

#3531

The operative treatment of chronic constipation.

Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.

1910

#3532

A method of anastomosis between sigmoid and rectum.

Balfour’s operation for resection of the sigmoid colon.

1910

#3533

Zur röntgenologischen Diagnose der Ulzerationen in der Pars media des Magens.

First demonstration of the characteristic niche in gastric ulcer.

1910

#3534

Removal of the rectum for cancer: statistical report of 120 cases.

Mayo’s radical operation for carcinoma of the rectum.

1910

#3535

Duodenal ulcer.

Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence, pain-food-ease, and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he establ…

1911

#3536

Ein operativ geheilter Fall von kongenitaler Dünndarmatresie.

Treatment of congenital atresia of ileum by lateral anastomosis.

1911

#3537

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.

1913

#3538

The cause and treatment of certain unfavourable after-effects of gastroenterostomy.

First description of the “dumping syndrome”, so named by C. L. Mix, Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1922, 2, 617-22. (During WWI Hertz changed his name to Hurst; see No. 8604.)

1912

#3539

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 …

1913

#3540

The first successful case of resection of the thoracic portion of the oesophagus for carcinoma.

See also Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1925, 10, 353-60, which reported that the patient was still living.

1915

#3541

Gastric and duodenal ulcer; medical cure by an efficient removal of gastric juice corrosion.

“Sippy diet” for the treatment of peptic ulcer.

1918

#3542

Dysentery bacilli: the differentiation of the true dysentery bacilli from allied species.

Shigella alkalescens described.

1918

#3543

Ausgedehnte Magenresektion bei Ulcus duodeni statt der einfachen Duodenalresektion bzw.

Hofmeister-Finsterer gastro-enterostomy (see No. 3529).

1921

#3544

Studies in gastric secretion. Introduction.

Ryle’s tube, for obtaining specimens of gastric juice.

1922

#3545

Probleme und Technik der Gastroskopie, mit der Beschreibung eines neuen Gastroskops.

Schindler made gastroscopy a “method”. See also his paper in the Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 535-37.

1928

#3546

Die Entzündungen des Magens. In: F. Henke & O. Lubarsch: Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie, 4, Heft 2, 768-1116.

Konjetzny suggested that peptic ulceration is the sequel to a specific form of gastritis.

1929

#3547

Gastric and duodenal ulcer.

1929

#3548

Ueber Gastrophotographie.

Introduction of gastrophotography.