Facets

1820 –1821

#5588

Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.

One of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery. Hand-colored copies show more blood than is usual for surgical treatises of this period. From publication in fascicul…

1820

#7596

A dissertation on the treatment of morbid local affections of nerves.

An early discussion of peripheral nerve injuries, tumors, and inflammation of nerves, including issues of pain and healing. Swan was among the first of the 19th-century surgeons to argue that divided nerves that are s…

1820 –1847

#12750

Chirurgische Kupfertafeln. 4 vols.

This collection of 417 plates on surgical procedures, instruments, and bandages, with 4 pages of explanatory text, was published in 96 parts between 1820 and 1847. Fifty-two of the plates were issued hand-colored. The…

1821

#3253

Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l’olfaction. 2me. éd.

An exhaustive work which discusses olfaction, diseases of the nose, membranous occlusion of the nostrils, deviations of the septum, rhinoplasty, coryza, vasomotor rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, etc. The first edition was enti…

1821

#3584

Sull’ernia del perineo.

Scarpa’s work on perineal hernia included a classic description of sliding hernia, or hernia of the large bowel. His contribution to the subject of hernia ranks with that of Cooper, and he did much toward modernizing …

1821

#4411.1

Remarks on certain injuries of the bones in children.

On bending fractures in children.

1821

#4446

Case of tumour of the superior jaw.

First excision of the superior maxilla, 11 Nov, 1820.

1822

#4412.1

A treatise on dislocations, and on fractures of the joints.

Through this and numerous subsequent editions this was the principal reference work on the subject in England and America for 30 years. “Many later clinical modifications were developed from Cooper’s methods” (Bick).

1822

#4447

Case of osteo-sarcoma in which the right side of the lower jaw was removed successfully after tying the carotid artery.

Mott resected the entire half of the bone, necessitating a disarticulation at the temporo-mandibular joint.

1822

#5740.1

Gelungener Versuch einer Nasenbildung aus einem völlig getrennten Hautstück aus dem Beine.

First well-documented full-thickness skin graft, used for a rhinoplasty on a patient whose nose and forehead had been destroyed by uncontrolled lupus. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1822

#5741

Nonnula de regeneratione et transplantatione.

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

1822

#13314

System of surgical anatomy. Part first [all published]: On the structure of the groin, pelvis, and perineum. As connected with inguinal and femoral hernia; Tyeing the iliac arteries; and the operation of lithotomy. Illustrated by nine copper-plate engravings

Anderson trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, emigrated to America in 1820 and, after delivering a series of anatomical lectures in New York under the patronage of Valentine Mott, became affiliated w…

1823

#4448

Case of removal of a portion of the lower maxillary bone.

Deaderick resected a portion of the jaw in 1810. He wrote this paper to obtain priority over Mott (No. 4447).

1823

#3433.1

Extirpation of the parotid gland.

Although Béclard and possibly others may have extirpated the parotid before Davidge, this was the first published case.

1823

#4851.1

Case reports: From injuries of the head.

Dudley was for many years the leading surgeon on the western frontier of the United States. This paper reports the first operations on the brain performed in the United States. Three of the five patients were relieved…

1823 –1828

#4312

Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier. 2 vols.

Delpech's work includes the first account of rhinoplasty in France. On 4 June 1823, Delpech performed the first of six cases of rhinoplasty by the Indian forehead flap method, and one (unsuccessful) with a flap from t…

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.

1824

#3561

Observations pour servir à l’histoire des inflammations de l’appendice du caecum.

Report of two cases of fatal peritonitis due to perforation of the appendix. Of this paper, H. A. Kelly says, “It at once established a definite place for lesions of the appendix in the category of recognized diseases”.

1824

#2945

Account of an operation for the extirpation of a tumour in which a ligature was applied to the carotid artery.

Cogswell ligated the primitive carotid on Nov. 4, 1803.

1824

#3434

Extirpation de la parotide.

First excision of the parotid, 1823.

1824

#5647

A letter on suspended animation, containing experiments showing that it may be safely employed during operations on animals, with a view of ascertaining its probable utility in surgical operations on the human subject.

Hickman was the first to prove that the pain of surgical operations could be abolished by the inhalation of a gas. He rendered animals unconscious, first through partial asphyxiation by the exclusion of air, then by i…

1825

#4450

On the amputation of the knee-joint.

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

1825

#2074

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.

Waterton traveled to the Guyana region of South America to obtain curare. He provided a detailed description of its paralyzing effects, its preparation by distillation, and the blowpipe and darts used to deliver it. O…

1825

#2946

Account of a case in which both carotids were successfully tied.

In 1823 Macgill successfully ligated in continuity both primitive carotid arteries in the same subject within a month. He was the first American to do so.

1825

#5741.2

Mémoire sur la staphyloraphie, ou la suture du voile du palais.

Roux’s first detailed paper on his operation for cleft of the soft palate in which he first proposed the name, “staphylorrhaphy”. The greatly expanded edition in book form, Paris, Chaudé, 1825, was translated into Ger…

1825

#5633

De l’emploi des chlorures d’oxide de sodium et de chaux.

First chlorine solution for disinfecting purposes. English translation, 1826.

1825

#11730

Report of the trial of an action: Charles Lowell against John Faxon and Micajah Hawks, doctors of medicine, defendants, for malpractice in the capacity of physicians and surgeons: At the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, holden at Machias for the county of Washington, June term, 1824, before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun., justice of the court.

A detailed narrative on the trial based on the transcript. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1825

#13301

Traité d'anatomie chirurgicale, ou anatomie des régions, considérée dans ses rapports avec la chirurgie; ouvrage orné de quatorze planches représentant les principales régions du corps. 2 vols.

Some copies were issued with the plates hand-colored. Digital facsimile of a black & white copy from Google Books at this link.

1826

#2947

Observation sur un cas de ligature de l’artère iliaque externe.

Successful ligation of the external iliac, Oct. 16, 1815.

1826

#3435

Mémoire sur l’entéroraphie avec la description d’un procédé nouveau pour pratiquer cette opération chirurgicale.

Description of what is now known as Lembert’s suture, which ensures that serous surface is applied to serous surface in suturing intestine – the foundation of all modern gastric and intestinal surgery. Dieffenbach (se…

1826

#3436

Extracts from an account of a case in which a new and peculiar operation for artificial anus was performed.

Physick’s operation for artificial anus – colocutaneous fistula formed as a result of mortification from a strangulated hernia.

1826

#4413

Mémoire sur un déplacement originel ou congénital de la tête des fémurs.

First clear pathological description of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint. Dupuytren distinguished this syndrome caused by failure of fetal development of the acetabulum from deformities due to tuberculosis and …

1826

#11728

A letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, chief justice of the Supreme court of the state of Massachusetts, containing remarks on the dislocation of the hip joint, occasioned by the publication of a trial which took place at Machias, in the state of Maine, June, 1824. By John C. Warren. With an appendix of documents from the trial necessary to illustrate the history of the case.

This work, illustrated with 5 plates, contains several clear and minute descriptions of dislocation of the hip joint. In the course of the monograph Warrenproved the possibility of a type of dislocation that was denie…

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.

1827

#4451.1

Successful amputation at the hip-joint.

This is “the first reported amputation at the hip joint found in the American medical literature” (Rutkow). See No. 4462.

1827

#3562

Mémoire et observations sur quelques maladies de l’appendice cécale.

Mélier was the first to show the existence of chronic appendicitis; he recognized the causal relationship between the chronic affection and abscesses of the right iliac fossa and was first to suggest operative interve…

1827

#2948

Case of axillary aneurism successfully treated by tying the subclavian artery.

In 1823 Key successfully ligated the subclavian artery for aneurysm at the axilla.

1827

#2949

Case of carotid aneurism successfully treated by tying the artery above the aneurismal tumor.

Wardrop successfully treated aneurysm of the carotid artery by distal ligation, a procedure suggested by Pierre Brasdor (see No. 2951). Wardrop expanded this paper into a book: On aneurism, and its cure by a new opera…

1827

#2950

Successful ligature of the common iliac artery.

First successful ligation of the common iliac.

1827

#4414

Case of un-united fracture of the os brachii, successfully treated.

Successful wiring of ununited fracture of humerus.

1827

#5589

Observations upon traumatic haemorrhage, illustrated by experiments upon living animals.

Jameson was surgeon to Baltimore Hospital for 20 years. This essay described some of the earliest multiple animal experiments used in American medical research.

1827

#13539

Pathological and practical observations on spinal diseases: illustrated with cases and engravings. Also, An inquiry into the origin and cure of distorted limbs.

Harrison founded the first infirmary for spinal diseases in London. See Weiner & Silver, "Edward Harrison and the treatment of spinal deformities in the nineteenth century," J. R. Coll. Phys. Edinb., 38 (2006) 265-71.…

1827

#14199

Méthode nouvelle pour le traitement des déviations de la colonne vertébrale; précédée d'un examen critique des divers moyens employés par les orthopédistes modernes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1828

#4453

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the lower jaw.

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

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

#3255

Description of a forceps, employed to facilitate the extirpation of the tonsil.

Invention of the modern tonsillotome.

1828

#2951

Aneurism of the arteria innominata involving the subclavian and the root of the carotid; successfully treated by tying the carotid artery.

First application in the United States of the Pierre Brasdor (1721-97) operative technique by distal ligation. Second report, 1830, 6, 532-34.

1828

#3437

Mémoire sur une méthode nouvelle pour traiter les anus accidentels.

Dupuytren invented an enterotome to perform his operation for artificial anus.

1828

#4314

On trephining the tibia.

“Brodie’s abscess”. The patient was first seen in 1824. Brodie published an account of some further cases in Med.-chir. Trans., 1832, 17, 239-49, which paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 900-06.

1828

#4315

De l’orthomorphie. 2 vols. and atlas.

Delpech, Professor of Surgery at Montpellier, published a comprehensive treatise on deformities of the bones and joints. He established the tuberculous nature of Pott’s disease. Delpech did more than any other man tow…