Facets

1819

#2673

De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplifying t…

1881

#3475

Ueber Gastroskopie und Oesophagoskopie.

Mikulicz was the first to use the electric oesophagoscope invented by Leiter in 1880. He was among the most distinguished of Billroth’s pupils and contributed much to cancer surgery.

1896

#3516.1

Ueber Gastroskopie.

Rosenheim’s gastroscope.

1900 –1901

#3521

Ueber Magenspiegelung.

Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.

1911

#3535.1

Die Gastroskopie.

Elsner designed a straight gastroscope with a rubber tip and an optical system to be pushed into the outer tube, which had a lamp at its tip.

1922

#3545

Probleme und Technik der Gastroskopie, mit der Beschreibung eines neuen Gastroskops.

Schindler made gastroscopy a “method”. See also his paper in the Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 535-37.

1932

#3553

Ein völlig ungefährliches, flexibles Gastroskop.

Introduction of the flexible gastroscope.

1958

#3558.3

Demonstration of the new gastroscope, the “fiberscope”.

The Hirschowitz fiber optic endoscope, the "Fiberscope." In February 1957 Hirschowitz passed the first prototype instrument down his own throat and, a few days later, down that of a patient. Hirschowitz gave the first…

2001

#7959

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…