Facets

1860

#3459.1

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 …

1860

#9584

Surgical and practical observations on the diseases of the human foot, with instructions for their treatment. To which is added advice on the management of the hand.

A controversial, and not necessarily original work, notable as having been written by Abraham Lincoln's chiropodist (podiatrist), who gained the confidence of Lincoln and served as Lincoln's representative to the Jewi…

1861 –1867

#2968

Der erste Fall von erfolgreicher Unterbindung der Art. hepatica propria gegen Aneurysma.

Successful ligation of the hepatic artery.

1861

#3460

Ueber polypöse Vegetationen der gesammten Dickdarmschleimhaut.

First authentic description of polyposis of the colon.

1861

#6277

Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers.

Semmelweis, who earlier had shown puerperal fever to be a septicemia, strove to improve conditions in the lying-in wards of Vienna and Budapest. Misunderstood and maligned by many, he eventually published this book in…

1861

#7811

A manual of military surgery: for the use of surgeons in the Confederate army: with an appendix of the rules and regulations of the medical department of the Confederate army.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1861

#7814

A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1861

#7867

A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.

Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …

1861 –1862

#13270

(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.

Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of the fi…

1862

#2961

Case of iliac aneurism.

Syme treated a case of iliac aneurysm by opening the sac and ligating the common iliac and the internal and external iliac arteries.

1862

#3008

Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der Embolie.

Experimental study of the effects of ligation of coronary vessels.

1862 –1865

#4422.1

Handbuch der Lehre von den Knochenbruchen. 2 vols.

Gurlt, the celebrated historian of surgery (see No. 5800), wrote an exhaustive and detailed review of the literature on fractures. As a source of obscure and arcane information it is unsurpassed. Digital facsimile fro…

1862

#5748

Die Uranoplastik mittelst Ablösung es mucös-periostalen Gaumenüberzuges.

Langenbeck has several operations named after him, one of the most important being that for cleft palate. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.

1863

#871

On the coagulation of the blood.

In his Croonian Lecture Lister exploded the theory that blood coagulation is due to ammonia and showed that, in the blood vessels, it depends upon their injury. He further showed that by carrying out the strictest pre…

1863

#3592

Ueber einen Fall nicht incarcerierter, aber mit Incarceration des Ileum durch das Omentum complicirter Hernia interna mesogastrica.

“Gruber’s hernia” – internal mesogastric hernia.

1863

#4332

Hochgradige Dislocation der Scapula.

First description of congenital high-scapula “Sprengel’s deformity”; see also No. 4359.

1863

#4333

Contractur des Metatarsus.

Congenital metatarsus varus described.

1863

#5767

Die Literatur and Geschichte der plastichen Chirurgie.

A history of plastic surgery and an annotated bibliography of its literature prior to 1860. Nachträge, 1864. Reprint, including Nachträge, Bologna, 1963. The main bibliography has 2008 references, the supplement 275 m…

1863

#5608

Die allgemeine chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie.

Billroth, professor of surgery at Zürich and Vienna, was the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery. He has also been called the founder of modern abdominal surgery, and he was one of the first to introduce antisepsi…

1863

#5609

On the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain.

Hilton, surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, suggested that symptoms are disordered reflexes. He advocated complete rest in the treatment of surgical disorders of all parts of the body. Second and later editions were entitled O…

1863

#6052

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

1863

#7812

An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863

#7813

Notes and observations on army surgery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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.

1864

#2962

Ligature of the left subclavian inside the scalenus muscle, together with common carotid and vertebral arteries for subclavian aneurism haemorrhage from the distal end of the subclavian; death on 42nd day.

1864

#4334

Lectures on orthopaedic surgery.

Before emigrating to America, Bauer studied under Stromeyer. Hugh Owen Thomas considered him “the first exponent of American orthopaedics”. This is the first comprehensive American textbook of orthopedics. First publi…

1864

#4335

Ueber einen Fall von cystoider Entartung des ganzen Skelettes.

First description of osteitis fibrosa cystica – hyperparathyroid bone disease, also known as “von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone”.

1864

#5667

Ueber die Einwirkung von Wasserstoff auf Einfach-Chlorkohlenstoff.

Discovery of trichlorethylene by Emil Fischer while working on the preparation of tetrachloroethylene.

1864

#11617

Acupressure: A new method of arresting surgical haemorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds.

In 1858 Simpson described a new method of controlling blood loss during surgical operations – acupressure, not to be confused with the traditional Chinese medical technique similarly named. Simpson's technique, though…

1865

#3272

Case of cancer of the larynx, successfully removed by laryngotomy.

Laryngectomy for papillomata.

1865

#4336

A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint.

A valuable contribution to the knowledge and surgical treatment of diseases of the knee-joint.

1865

#6053

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

1865

#4469

On excision of the wrist for caries.

1866

#2963

Successful operation for subclavian aneurism.

First successful ligation of the innominate artery, 1864. A report on the condition of the patient in 1869 is given in New Orleans J. Med.,1869, 22,464-69.

1867

#1996.3

On the electrolytic treatment of tumors, and other surgical diseases.

Althaus introduced Duchenne’s methods into England. He was the first to employ electrolysis for medical purposes. Greatly expanded third edition, 1873.

1867

#3274

Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.

First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.

1867

#3564

An operation for abscess of the appendix vermiformis caeci.

Parker was the first American to operate for appendicitis. In this paper he described a case from 1864, but mentioned a case he had operated on as early as 1843. He advocated the opening of the appendicular abscesses …

1867

#4336.1

Traité expérimentale et clinique de la régenération des os. 2 vols.

Ollier pioneered research in bone allografting.

1867

#4423

Treatment of fractures of the lower extremity, by use of the anterior suspensory apparatus.

1867

#4423.1

On a new method of treating compound fracture, abscess, etc., with observations on the conditions of suppuration.

Lister’s work on the antiseptic principle in surgery. He believed that bacteria could enter wounds and cause suppuration and putrefaction and that it was necessary to kill the bacteria already in wounds and to apply d…

1867

#5793

Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century.

1867

#5635

On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery.

Having realized the significance of Pasteur’s work on fermentation, Lister evolved the idea of the antiseptic prevention of wound infection. This and the preceding entry represent two of the most epoch-making contribu…

1867

#5668

Description of a new apparatus for administering narcotic vapors.

Junker’s chloroform inhaler.

1867

#7704

Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.

Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.

1867

#10718

Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1867 –1872

#14321

Arsenal de la chirurgie contemporaine. Description, mode d'emploi et appréciation des appareils et instruments en usage pour le diagnostic et le traitement des maladies chirurgicales, l'orthopédie, la prothèse, les opérations simples, générales, spéciales et obstétricales. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1868

#4337

Sur quelques arthropathies qui paraissent dépendre d’une lésion du cerveau ou de la moëlle épinière.

Charcot called attention to tabetic arthropathy, a condition which has since borne his name, while the tabetic joints he so well described are now known as “Charcot’s joints”.

1868

#1868

Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l’erythroxylum coca du Pérou et la cocaïne.

The author, formerly a surgeon in the Peruvian army, issued the first study of the pharmacological action of cocaine, containing the earliest suggestion of its use as a local anesthetic. Leclerc issued the commercial …

1868 –1869

#4338

Case of osteoporosis, or spongy hypertrophy of the bones (calvaria, clavicle, os femoris, and rib).

A classic account of osteitis deformans. Wilks was associated with Guy’s Hospital all his life. A kindly, charming man, he was described by Osler as one of the handsomest men in London in his time, even until the age …

1868

#5669

The oxygen mixture; a new anesthetic combination.

Andrews advocated the use of an oxygen-nitrous mixture.