Entry Nos. 4400–4499

1824

#4449

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the superior maxillary bone, with the operation for its removal.

Rogers removed nearly all of the upper jaw. Operation performed in 1810.

1825

#4450

On the amputation of the knee-joint.

Smith amputated the knee-joint in 1824, being the first in America to do so.

1827

#4451

On the treatment of anchylosis, by the formation of artificial joints.

Barton performed a femoral osteotomy between the greater and lesser trochanters to secure motion in an ankylosed hip. This has been called the first successful arthroplasty. Reprinted in Clin. Orthop., 1984, 182, 4-13.

1828

#4452

An account of a case of osteo-sarcoma of the left clavicle, in which exsection of that bone was successfully performed.

Valentine Mott was an outstanding figure in American surgery during the first half of the 19th century. A pupil of Astley Cooper, he particularly distinguished himself in vascular surgery and in operations involving t…

1828

#4453

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the lower jaw.

Syme’s operation of excision of the lower jaw for osteosarcoma.

1829

#4454

Three cases in which the elbow-joint was successfully excised.

1829 –1830

#4455

Removal of the arm, scapula and clavicle.

Records the first interscapulo-thoracic amputation, performed by Ralph Cuming (d. 1808), a naval surgeon, in 1808.

1830

#4456

Résection des os.

Among the French surgeons of the 19th century, Roux was second in importance only to Dupuytren. He performed staphylorrhaphy in 1819 and sutured the ruptured female peritoneum in 1832; he is also remembered on account…

1831

#4457

Treatise on the excision of diseased joints.

Syme, teacher and father-in-law of Lister, was one of the greatest of the Scottish surgeons. He is remembered for his method of amputation at the ankle (see No. 4459), for his speedy adoption of anesthesia and antisep…

1838

#4458

Excision of the head of the femur for disease of the hip-joint. IN: S. COOPER: A dictionary of practical surgery. 7th ed., pp. 272-73

White was the first to perform this operation, April 1821.

1843

#4459

Amputation at the ankle-joint.

“Syme’s amputation” at the ankle joint, an operation first successfully performed by him on 8 Sept, 1842.

1849

#4460

On amputation at the ankle-joint by internal lateral flap.

“Mackenzie’s operation”, a modification of Syme’s amputation (No. 4459). Mackenzie volunteered for service in the Crimean War and died of Asiatic cholera near Sebastopol.

1852

#4461

Resection of the head of the femur.

First excision of the hip-joint in America. Unfortunately the one-page article provides no details.

1853

#4462

Amputations.

The first successful amputation of the hip-joint was performed by Brashear in 1806 at Bardstown, Kentucky; he first amputated the thigh through its middle third, and tied off the bleeding vessels; then he made a long …

1853

#4463

Exsection of the clavicle.

J. H. Johnson (New Orleans med. surg. J., 1850, 6, 474-76) stated that McCreary performed the first resection of the clavicle in the United States on 4 May, 1811. Valentine Mott reported the operation in 1828. See No.…

1854

#4464

Ueber Resectionen und Amputationen.

1854

#4465

Kostno-plasticheskoye udlineniye kostei goleni pri vilushtshenii stopi. [Osteoplastic elongation of the bones of the leg in amputation of the foot.]

Pirogov’s method of complete osteoplastic amputation of the foot. German translation, Leipzig, 1854.

1857

#4466

Dell’amputazione del femore al terzo inferiore e della disarticulazione del ginocchio.

Gritti’s amputation of the thigh was later improved by Stokes (see No. 4470).

1858

#4467

On amputation by a long and a short rectangular flap.

Teale’s method of amputation.

1864

#4468

On amputation by a single flap.

Carden devised a single flap operation, cutting through the femur just above the knee-joint. He published a book on the subject in 1864.

1865

#4469

On excision of the wrist for caries.

1870

#4470

On supra-condyloid amputation of the thigh.

Gritti–Stokes amputation (see also No. 4466).

1883

#4471

Amputation du membre supérieur dans la contiguïté du tronc (désarticulation de l’omoplate).

“Berger’s operation”, interscapulothoracic amputation. See also his monograph, Paris, Masson, 1887.

1894

#4472

La désarticulation interilio-abdominale.

Interilio-abdominal amputation first described.

1895

#4473

Désarticulation de l’os iliaque pour sarcome.

First successful hind-quarter amputation.

1898

#4474

Amputazione, disarticulazione et protesi.

Vanghetti was the first to suggest the use of the musculature remaining above the amputation stump to form a motor unit for artificial limbs – “kinematization of stumps”.

1906

#4475

Tecnica generale della amputazioni mucosi. Amputazioni plastico-ortopediche con metodo proprio secundo la proposta del Vanghetti. Dimonstrazioni pratiche.

Ceci was the first to operate on the lines suggested by Vanghetti.

1917

#4476

Eine neue osteoplastische Amputationsmethode des Oberschenkels.

1918

#4477

The utilization of the muscles of a stump to actuate artificial limbs: cinematic amputations.

Putti developed and improved kineplastic surgery.

1935

#4478

Interinnomino-abdominal (hind-quarter) amputation.

One-stage operation.

1919

#4479

Menders of the maimed.

Gives details of the work of John Hunter, John Hilton, Hugh Owen Thomas, Little, Stromeyer, Marshall Hall, Arbuthnot Lane, Syme, Julius Wolff, etc., in the development of modern orthopaedics. Second edition, 1925. Fac…

1925

#4480

The evolution of orthopaedic surgery.

1936 –1938

#4481

Die orthopädische Weltliteratur 1903-30. Herausg von A. Blencke und H. Gocht. Ergänzungsband 1931-35 bearbeitet von Erich Witte. 3 vols.

1948

#4482

Source book of orthopaedics.

A concise, thematic history of orthopedic surgery from the earliest times. Includes a useful bibliography. Reprinted 1968.

1949

#4483

On the contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of Liverpool, Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool and London, John Ridlon, M.D., of New York and Chicago, to modern orthopedic surgery.

1642

#4485

Liber de rheumatismo et pleuritide dorsale.

De Baillou is usually credited with introducing the term “rheumatism”. He was court physician in Paris at the time of Henri IV. His book, the first on rheumatism, was translated into English by C. C. Barnard in Brit. …

1683

#4486

Tractatus de podagra et hydrope.

Of the many great works of Sydenham, this is considered his masterpiece. He clearly differentiated gout from rheumatism. For an English translation, see his Works, published by the Sydenham Society, 1850, 2, 123-84.

1720

#4487

Observations concerning the nature and due method of treating the gout.

1764

#4488

Podagra. In his Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, 4, 287-393

1771

#4489

A dissertation on the gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same causes; what those causes are; and a rational and natural method of cure proposed.

This book excited great attention and ran through eight editions in one year. Cadogan’s advice on moderate exercise and moderation in drinking as a cure for gout caused much criticism.

1800

#4490

Doit-on admettre une nouvelle espèce de goutte sous la dénomination de goutte asthénique primitive? an VIII

Landré-Beauvais gave the first reasonably accurate description of rheumatoid arthritis.

1805

#4492

A clinical history of diseases. Part first: being 1. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism. 2. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints.

The first monograph on acute rheumatism.

1831

#4493

On a new practice in acute and chronic rheumatism.

First description of the neurotic spinal arthropathies.

1840

#4494

Traité clinique du rhumatisme articulaire.

Extension of Bouillaud’s work on the coincidence of heart disease and acute rheumatism. He regarded fever as the effect of endocarditis (see also No. 2749).

1848

#4495

Observations on certain pathological conditions of the blood and urine in gout, rheumatism and Bright’s disease.

The “thread test” in gout was introduced by Garrod. Later he wrote more fully on gout and rheumatism (see No. 4497).

1857

#4496

A treatise on rheumatic gout, or chronic rheumatic arthritis, of all the joints.

An excellent description of chronic rheumatic arthritis. Adams also published Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout, London, 1857.

1859

#4497

The nature and treatment of gout and rheumatic gout.

Garrod was the leading authority of his time on gout, which he separated from other forms of arthritis by his discovery of excess of uric acid in the blood of gouty sufferers. He gave to rheumatoid arthritis its prese…

1864

#4498

Contributions à l’étude des altérations anatomiques de la goutte.

Charcot and Cornil gave an important description of the renal lesions in gout.

1864

#4499

Mémoire sur les coincidences pathologiques du rhumatisme articulaire chronique.

First description of chronic arthritis in childhood.