Entry Nos. 5700–5799

1948

#1929.3

Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.

Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.

1932

#2657

Apparition de cancers de la mamelle chez la souris mâle, soumise à des injections de folliculine.

Demonstration of the carcinogenic effect of ovarian hormone.

1942

#4404.01

The use of preserved bone grafts in orthopaedic surgery.

These studies form the basis of the modern use of bone preserved by refrigeration.

1894 –1895

#5640

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…

1917 –1918

#5700

Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether outfit.

Boyle’s continous-flow anesthetic machine.

1920

#5701

Zur Technik der Splanchnicusanästhesie.

Splanchnic anesthesia. See also Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1920, 46, 535.

1921

#5702

Anestesia metamérica.

Introduction of epidural anesthesia.

1921

#5703

Anaesthetics in the plastic surgery of the face and jaws.

Intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization. See also Magill, I. W., Lancet, 1921, 1, 918; 1923, 2, 229.

1914

#5704

L’anesthésie régionale.

There was a second edition in 1917. Gaston Labat was the third co-author of the third edition (1921). Labat published his own book in English in 1922, the first work in English on the subject.

1923

#5705

Physiologic effects of ethylene; a new gas anesthetic.

Introduction of ethylene.

1923

#5706

Isoamyl ethyl barbituric acid-an anesthetic without influence on blood sugar regulation.

Sodium amytal described.

1925

#5707

A lecture on respiration in anaesthesia: Control by carbon dioxide.

Henderson’s important investigations on the physiology of respiration included his demonstration of the relation of acapnia to anesthesia and the recommendation that carbon dioxide inhalation be used to overcome colla…

1927

#5708

Ueber rektale Narkose mit Avertin (E 107).

Experimental use of “avertin’’ (tribromethanol).

1927

#5709

Klinische Erfahrungen mit Avertin (E 107).

First clinical use of “avertin”.

1929

#5710

Eine psycheschonende und steuerbare Form der Allgemeinbetäubung.

Intravenous use of “avertin”.

1929

#5711

A new anaesthetic gas: Cyclopropane. A preliminary report.

1929

#5712

Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.

Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.

1930

#5713

The anesthetic properties of certain unsaturated ethers.

Demonstration of the anesthetic properties of divinyl ether.

1932

#5714

Evipan, ein neuartiges Einschlafmittel.

Introduction of evipan (hexobarbitone).

1933

#5715

The anesthetic action of divinyl oxide on humans.

Clinical application of divinyl ether.

1934

#5716

A study of anesthesia and analgesia, with special reference to such substances as trichlorethylene and vinesthene (divinyl ether), together with apparatus for their administration.

Experimental use of trichlorethylene as anesthetic.

1934

#5717

Cyclopropane as an anesthetic agent: a preliminary clinical report.

First clinical use of cyclopropane. With W. B. Neff, and E. A. Rovenstine.

1934

#5718

Cyclopropane anesthesia.

Closed circuit method.

1935

#5719

Curare.

Isolation from curare of d-tubocurarine chloride.

1935

#5720

Intravenous anesthesia: preliminary report of the use of two new thiobarbiturates.

Introduction of thiopentone sodium.

1935

#5721

Clinical experiences with the use of trichlorethylene in the production of over 300 analgesias and anesthesias.

Human anesthetization with trichlorethylene. With S. Goldblatt, I. S. Warm, and D. E. Jackson.

1940

#5722

A method of continous spinal anesthesia. A preliminary note.

Continous spinal analgesia introduced.

1941

#5723

The Oxford vaporiser No. 1.

With R. R. Macintosh and K. Mendelssohn. The Oxford vaporiser No. 2 is described in the same journal, pp. 64-66 by S. L. Cowan, R. D. Scott, and S. F. Suffolk.

1942

#5724

The use of curare in general anesthesia.

Introduction of curare in anesthesia.

1946

#5725

Propriétés curarisantes du di-iodoéthylate de bis-[quinoléyloxy-8’] 1.5-pentane.

Introduction of gallamine triethiodide (“flaxedil”). With S. Courvoisier, R. Ducrot, And R. Horclois. See also the same journal, 1947, 225, 74.

1949

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

1949

#5728

Proprietà farmacodinamiche di alcuni derivati della succinilcolina dotati di azione curarica. Esteri di trialchiletanolammonio di acidi bicarbossilici alifatici.

Introduction of succinylcholine chloride. With S. Guarino, V. G. Longo, and M. Marotta.

1951

#5729

Bis-Cholinester von Dicarbonsäuren als Muskelrelaxantien in derNarkose.

Clinical use of succinylcholine chloride. With K. H. Ginzel, H. Klupp, F. Pfaffenschlager, and G. Werner.

1848

#5730

Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers and discovery.

Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery (No. 5651), and his subsequent advocacy of ether as an anesthetic assured its adoption throughout the civilized world. The above work deals with the priority claims o…

1945

#5732

The history of surgical anesthesia.

Reprinted with corrections and additions, 1963. Reprint, 1978.

1947

#5733

The development of inhalation anaesthesia, with special reference to the years 1846-1900.

Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New series, No. 2. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1597

#5734

De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem.

Tagliacozzi of Bologna became famous for his work on rhinoplasty, but Paré and Fallopius both abused him and his work, and the Church (which regarded such operations as meddling with the work of God) exhumed his body …

1668

#5735

Heel- en geneeskonstige aanmerkingen.

Van Meekeren was first to record a bone graft. He states (Chap. 1) that he read a report of it in a letter received by the Rev. Engebert Sloot of Slooterdijk from John Kraanwinkel, a missionary in Russia, where the op…

1804

#5736

Degli innesti animali.

Baronio was among the first to attempt transplantation and experimental surgery in animals. He successfully carried out full-thickness skin grafts after detachment from the body, and the first purely scientific resear…

1816

#5737

An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead.

Carpue revived the Hindu method of rhinoplasty (see No. 5735.1), and reported two successful cases. Facsimile edition, with biography of Carpue by Frank C. McDowell and bibliography of his writings, Birmingham, Classi…

1818

#5738

Rhinoplastik, oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen.

Von Graefe revived rhinoplasty in Germany with this survey of what he called the three methods: the Italian, the Indian, and the “German” method, his own variation on the Italian method. On p. 13 he described the firs…

1820

#5739

Die Gaumennath, ein neuentdecktes Mittel gegen angeborene Fehler der Sprache.

Graefe devised an operation for the treatment of congenital cleft palate. He reported his first closure of a cleft in the soft palate to the Med.-Chir. Gesellschaft, Berlin, on 27 December 1816 (see J. pract Heilk., 1…

1820

#5740

Dissertatio chirurgo-medica inauguralis de velosynthesi.

Stephenson, a medical student from Montreal, was the first to be operated upon by Roux (No. 5739.1) for the repair of cleft of the soft palate. He described the operation in his graduation thesis. Stephenson later fou…

1822

#5741

Nonnula de regeneratione et transplantatione.

Dieffenbach’s thesis for the M.D., Würzburg.

1828

#5742

On an operation for the cure of natural fissure of the soft palate.

Operation in May 1824 – the first staphylorraphy in America – performed without direct knowledge of Roux’s operations. Nathan Smith (1762-1829) published an earlier paper on staphylorrhaphy in America: Am. med. Rev., …

1829 –1834

#5743

Chirurgische Erfahrungen besonders über die Wiederherstellung zerstörter Theile des menschlichen Körpers nach neuen Methoden. 3 vols. [in 4] and atlas.

Dieffenbach was Professor of Surgery in Berlin. He was a pioneer in the field of plastic and orthopedic surgery, performing tenotomy and skin-grafting successfully. English translation of the section on rhinoplasty, w…

1842

#5744

Die plastische Chirurgie.

1842 –1843

#5745

Operations for fissure of the hard and soft palate (palatoplastie).

Warren devised the first operation for closure of complete clefts of the palate.

1844

#5746

Nouvelle méthode pour l’opération du bec-de-lièvre.

Malgaigne’s two-flap method for repair of cleft lip. English translation by R. Ivy in No. 5768.2.

1854

#5747

Elkoplasty, or anaplasty applied to the treatment of old ulcers.

Hamilton was among the first to treat ulcers by skin-grafting. He made the flap smaller than the space which it was intended to fill, “trusting to growth and expansion of the graft to complete the cure”. Also publishe…