Facets

1838

#3587

Treatise on ruptures. 5th ed.

This was the standard text for many years. It first appeared in 1807 as Treatise on hernia.

1838

#4321

Beiträge zur operativen Orthopädik.

Stromeyer is the founder of modern surgery of the locomotor system. He advocated and practised subcutaneous tenotomy for all deformities of the body arising from muscular defects.

1838

#4415

Views and treatment of an important injury of the wrist.

“Barton’s fracture” of the radius.

1838

#5743.4

Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie. Nebst einer Vorrede von J.F. Dieffenbach.

In this work Zeis introduced the term “plastic surgery”. The first half of the work covers the general principles of plastic surgery, and the first history of the subject. The second half describes the special operati…

1838

#5594

Traité d’anatomie chirurgicale et de chirurgie expérimentale. 2 vols.

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.

1838

#13150

Clinique des maladies des enfants nouveau-nes.

The first work on the diseases of newborns and the first work on child neurology and pediatric neurosurgery.

1839

#3442

Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel dans la région lombaire sans pénétrer dans le péritoine.

In 1839 Amussat performed the first lumbar colostomy for obstruction of the colon (“Amussat’s operation”). His work established lumbar colostomy as the method of choice. Translated in Dis. Colon. Rect., 1983, 26, 483-…

1839

#4322

Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 2me. éd. Tom. 3.

Pp. 455-61: Dupuytren was the first to treat wry neck by subcutaneous section of the sternomastoid muscle. This he did on 16 Jan, 1822. The operation was first reported in C. Averill: Short treatise on operative surge…

1839

#4322.1

On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions.

Little suffered from club-foot himself. This is the greatest English classic on the subject. See No. 4329.

1839

#4322.2

Operations on club-feet.

Brown was the first surgeon in the United States to specialize in orthopedics, founding the Orthopedic Infirmary of the City of Boston (soon renamed the Boston Orthopedic Institution) in 1838. Brown was also the first…

1839

#3443

Opération d’anus artificiel, par la méthode de Littre, sur un homme adulte qui a survécu vingt-huit jours. In: Amussat, J. Z., Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel

Pillore performed caecostomy in 1776, the patient surviving 28 days. Amussat went to considerable trouble to find the document describing the operation. See No. 3442.

1840 –1841

#59

Oeuvres complètes d’Ambroise Paré revues et collationnées sur toutes les éditions, avec les variantes; ornées de 217 planches et du portrait de l'auteur; accompagnées de notes historiques et critiques et précédées d'une introduction sur l'origine et les progrès de la chirurgie en occident du sixième au seizième siècle, et sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Ambroise Paré. Par J.-F. Malgaigne. 3 vols.

The best edition of Paré’s works, edited by Malgaigne. An English translation of Pare's Oeuvres by Thomas Johnson appeared as early as 1634. See also No. 5565. Janet Doe published A bibliography of the works of Ambroi…

1840

#5769.1

On the anatomy of the breast. 2 vols.

Anatomical sequel to No. 5769, with outstanding illustrations.

1840

#5770

Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.

“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54.

1840

#5790

Histoire de la chirurgie en Occident depuis de VIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, et histoire de la vie et des travaux d’Ambroise Parè.

Billings considered Malgaigne “the greatest surgical historian and critic the world has ever seen”; Leonardo (No. 5812) says that his greatest contribution to surgery was his unique manner of evaluating surgical techn…

1840

#8465

A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.

Includes a discussion of the Hindu method of rhinoplasty and other plastic operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1841

#3588

Operation for strangulated hernia.

Luke’s operation for femoral hernia.

1841

#4323

Ueber die Durchschneidung der Sehnen und Muskeln.

Report on 140 cases of tenotomy for treatment of club-foot.

1842

#30

Antylli veteris chirurgi quae apud Oribasium libro xliv, xlv et L leguntur fragmenta. Dissertatio inauguralis chirurgico-historica....By Friedrich C. F. Wolz.

Antyllus, a Greek surgeon who lived in Rome during the second century CE. is particularly remembered for his work on the surgery of aneurysm. He was first to recognize two forms of aneurysm–one caused by dilatation an…

1842 –1843

#2959

Gun-shot wound of the face and neck; ligature of the carotid artery.

First successful ligature of the carotid artery (for secondary haemorrhage) Oct. 18, 1807, eight months before Sir Astley Cooper (No. 2929). Published 35 years after the event, this paper may set some kind of record f…

1842

#3445

On acute ulceration of the duodenum, in cases of burn.

“Curling’s ulcer”. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it.

1842 –1843

#4323.1

Excision of a portion of the scapula.

First description of operation for partial excision of scapula.

1842

#4416

Ueber spontane und congenitale Luxationen.

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.

1842

#5596

A system of practical surgery.

Fergusson was the founder of conservative surgery. He was surgeon of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, before being appointed to the chair of surgery at King’s College Hospital, London, a position to which he was succee…

1842

#5650.1

Account of a case of sccessful amputation of the thigh during the mesmeric state.

The original account of the first major operation performed in England using hypnosis as a form of anesthesia. The amputation was performed by Ward. Topham, a lawyer interested in mesmerism, performed the hypnosis. Th…

1842

#12862

Arthroplastik oder die sämmtlichen, bisher bekannt gewordenen künstlichen Hände und Füsse, zum Ersatz dieser verloren gegangenen Gliedmassen, nach Manuscripten des...C. A. F. Kluge... bearbeitet und abgebildet von H. E. Fritze. Mit 26 in Stein gravirten Tafeln.

This work with its elaborate series of 26 lithographed schematic drawings was certainly the most comprehensive work on hand and foot protheses of its time. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

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.

1843

#3259

A nasal operation for the removal of a large tumour filling up the entire nostril and extending to the pharynx.

Removal of a fibrous growth from the nostril by division of the nasal and maxillary bones, July 8, 1841. Preliminary note in the same journal, 1842, 3, 257.

1843

#3446

An experimental and critical inquiry into the nature and treatment of wounds of the intestines.

Reports of a series of experiments upon dogs to determine the best way to treat intestinal wounds. First published in West. J. Med. Surg., 1843. 7, 1-50, [81]-141, [161]-224.

1843

#5650.2

Numerous cases of surgical operation without pain in the mesmeric state.

Elliotson was one of the first in England to perform surgical operations with the aid of hypnotism. He was a great friend of Dickens and Thackeray, but his views on hypnotism were bitterly opposed by Thomas Wakley, ed…

1844 –1850

#11

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

1844

#3447

Mémoire sur une tumeur cancéreuse affectant l’iliaque du colon; ablation de la tumeur et de l’intestin; réunion directe et immédiate des deux bouts de cet organe. Guérison.

First intestinal resection for cancer.

1844 –1845

#4852

Exstirpation of the os coccygis for neuralgia.

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.

1844

#5746.1

Lettre (Deuxième lettre) sur l’opération du bec-de-lièvre, considérée dans ses divers états de simplicité et de complication.

Mirault modified Malgaigne’s technique for cleft lip repair by discarding the medial flap and bringing the lateral flap of mucosa across. Abridged English translation by R. Ivy in No. 5768.2.

1844 –1859

#5597

Elémens de pathologie chirurgicale. 5 vols.

Nélaton was a great teacher and operator at the Hôpital St. Louis. He invented several surgical instruments. The description of “Nélaton’s tumor” of bone appears in vol.. 2, p. 46, and on p. 441, “Nélaton’s line”.

1844

#5598

A treatise on operative surgery.

Pancoast was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Jefferson Medical College. He was a fine operator and devised a number of new surgical operations and instruments. This was work contains 80 fine lithographed plates, a…

1844 –1847

#8306

The seven books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the Greek, with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery by Francis Adams. 3 vols.

Book VI is entirely devoted to operative surgery. Adams himself says that it “contains the most complete system of operative surgery which has come down to us from ancient times”. Book IV contains much information on …

1845

#1968

Neuralgia - introduction of fluid to the nerve.

Rynd, an Irish physician, invented the hollow needle used in hypodermic syringes. The description of his instrument is given in Dublin Quart. J. med. Sci., 1861, 32, 13.

1845

#4324

The knee-joint anchylosed at a right angle – restored nearly to a straight position after the excision of a wedge-shaped portion of bone, consisting of the patella, condyles and articular surface of the tibia.

Buck’s operation, “one of the more spectacular surgical feats by an American surgeon in the first half of the nineteenth century” (Rutkow). The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 791-99.

1845

#4325

A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails, and the general management of the feet.

Durlacher, surgeon chiropodist to Queen Victoria, gave the first description of anterior metatarsalgia (p. 52), to which the name “Morton’s metatarsalgia” has been given (see No. 4341). Digital facsimile from the Inte…

1845

#5746.4

Die plastische Chirurgie.

Fritze and Reich studied under Dieffenbach. This is the first extensively illustrated general treatise on plastic surgery published in Europe. Some copies have the plates hand-colored.

1845 –1848

#5598.1

Die operative Chirurgie. 2 vols.

Dieffenbach’s most comprehensive work, covering in addition to reconstructive procedures, virtually all other types of procedures including amputations, paracentesis, laparotomy, hysterectomy, dental extractions, etc.

1846

#3589

A practical treatise on abdominal hernia.

1846

#2902

Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery.

Page 361 contains the first description of intermittent claudication in man. This was first reported (in the horse) by “Boullay” [?J. Bouley] in Arch. gén. Méd.,1831, 27, 425. P. 186: Brodie's test for insufficiency o…

1846

#4325.1

On the microscopical character of mollifies ossium.

Report of the histological examination of bone material containing multiple myeloma from the patient described by Macintyre (No. 4327).

1846

#5650.3

Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.

Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.