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377 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04]
1490
#5553
La chirurgie da Lanfranc traduit du latin par Guillaume Yvoire.
Lanfranc, the founder of French surgery, was a pupil of William of Salicet. He enjoyed a great reputation for his lecturing and bedside teaching. His Chirurgia magna was completed in 1296. According to Hirsch and othe…
1553
#5073
De tumoribus praeter naturam.
This treatise on tumors includes (p. 194) the first known description of an epidemic disease resembling scarlet fever. This was a malady prevalent in Italy, and was commonly called rossania or rossalia. Ingrassia was …
1624
#2971
De tumoribus praeter naturam libri quinque. Ex instructissima Bibliotheca Ranchiniana eruti, & publici iuris facti, cura & studio Henric Gras...Accessit Ioannis Saportae Tractatus de lue venerea.
IN 1554 Saporta gave the earliest description of an aortic aneurysm. Many years after Saporta's death Henri Gras of Lyon discovered the manuscript of Saporta's book, and edited it for publication. Digital facsimile fr…
1632
#2273
De recondita abscessuum natura.
The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats of all kinds of swelling under the term “abscess” and describes neoplasms of the genital organs and sarcoma of bones. Tumors of the breast are classified into four g…
1652
#3737
Observationes medicae.
One of the earliest accounts of beri-beri is on pp. 300-05 of this work. Tulp, notable as the demonstrator in Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson”, was among the first, in the same book, to describe the ileo-caecal valve (“Tu…
1666
#1230
De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica.
Includes (pp. 71-100) his essay, De renibus, in which he described the uriniferous tubules and the “Malpighian bodies”. The great detail and clarity of Malpighi’s description was unsurpassed until Bowman (No. 1231). T…
1683
#1545
Traité de l’organe de l’ouie; contenant la structure, les usages et les maladies de toutes les parties de l’oreille.
The first scientific account of the structure, function and diseases of the ear. Du Verney showed that the bony external meatus develops from the tympanic ring and that the mastoid air cells communicate with the tympa…
1695
#1379.1
The anatomy of the brain.
The first book on the brain in the English language, including the first account of the circular venous sinus which Ridley names, and the first English account of a pineal tumor. In it Ridley gives the first account o…
1731
#2275
Samuel Sontag: Dissertatio inauguralis medica de metastasi sive sede morborum mutata oder: Wie sich öffters eine Kranckheit in die andere verwandele. Praeside Hoffmanno.
Recamier (1829) is credited with coining the term metastasis with respect to cancer. It is evident that Hoffmann and his pupil Sontag used the term nearly 100 years earlier in this general thesis on disease. They did …
1752
#3424.1
De tumore scirrhoso trium cum quadrante librarum glandulae parotidis extirpato.
First description of parotid tumor.
1757
#2607
Mémoire avec un précis de plusieurs observations sur le cancer.
Le Dran discarded the humoral conception of cancer for the first time. He regarded cancer as a local disease in its early stage and knew that it spread via the lymphatics to regional nodes, and from there into the gen…
1758 –1763
#3878
De cranii ustione in pertinacioribus capitis vitiis. In his: Ratio medendi in nosocomio practico, 6, 239-287. 8 vols.
Haen provided the first description of amenorrhea in connection with a pituitary tumor. He recorded the case history of a young woman suffering from amenorrhea as well as many neurological symptoms assumed to result f…
1760
#4850.5
Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, etc.
This book, which showed Pott’s extensive knowledge of surgical literature, systematized the treatment of head injuries. It shows what a variety of injuries of the head could be sustained even before the advent of the …
1761
#2607.1
Cautions against the immoderate use of snuff. Founded on the known qualities of the tobacco Plant; and the effects it must produce when this way taken Into the body: And by instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable by its use,
First clinical report (pp. 30-31) of an association between tobacco and cancer, in this case “polypusses” of the nose caused by taking snuff. Hill was a distinguished botanist and apothecary, although regarded by some…
1768
#4015.1
Observations on cancers.
First recorded description of multiple neurofibromatosis. Akenside was better known as a poet; he was caricatured as the republican doctor of Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
1774
#2608
Dissertatio academica de cancro.
Peyrilhe was the first to attempt an experimental study to determine the nature of cancer. He injected fluid from human mammary cancer into a dog; however, the dog howled and aggravated his housekeeper, who drowned it…
1775
#2122
Chirurgical observations relative to the cataract, the polypus of the nose, the cancer of the scrotum, etc.
Includes the first description of occupational cancer. By describing chimney sweeps” cancer of the scrotum, Pott was the first to trace the origin of a type of cancer to a specific external cause. The above work also …
1791
#3250
Observation sur un fongus du sinus maxillaire.
First successful operation on a tumor of the maxillary sinus, 1789.
1795
#2609.1
De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani.
Soemmerring noted an association between pipe smoking and cancer of the lip (p. 109).
1804
#13225
Surgical observations, containing a classification of tumours, with cases to illustrate the history of each species; - an account of diseases which strikingly resemble the venereal disease; - and various cases illustrative of different surgical subjects.
Abernethy published the first classification of tumors based on pathologic anatomy. "Abernethy is best known for his lectures and writings on surgery and for the first attempt at classification of tumors, some of whic…
1811
#3055
Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck.
Burns was the first to suggest (p. 31) ligature of the innominate artery. His book describes “Burns’s space”, the fascial space at the suprasternal notch. The first recorded case of chloroma (myeloid sarcoma, granuloc…
1817
#4258
Cases of Fungus haematodes, with observations.
Prostatic carcinoma first reported (p. 279).
1818 –1819
#2941
Surgical essays. 2 vols.
Cooper, the pupil and great interpreter of Hunter, was the most popular surgeon in London during the Regency. In 1802 he gained the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Travers was surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital, and …
1820
#2073
Pharmacologia; or the history of medicinal substances, with a view to establish the art of prescribing. 3rd ed.
First description of cancer caused by arsenic (p. 133).
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.
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
#2606
De tumoribus praeter naturam. In his Opera omnia, ed. cur. C.G. Kühn. 7, 705-32.
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Galen’s classification of tumors persisted for more than 1,000 years. He considered neoplasms to be due to an excess of black bile, which solidified in certain sites. He advocated purges to dissolve the black bile, an…
1824
#6025
Ueber den Gebärmutterkrebs, dessen Entstehung und Verhütung.
Classic account of cancer of the uterus.
1824
#10184
Recherches pour server à l'histoire des maladies du système lymphatique.
First description of lymphangitis carcinomatosa. See L. Doyle, "Gabriel Andral (1797-1876) and the first reports of lymphangitis carcinomatosa," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 82 (1989) 491-93.
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 –1829
#4523
Observations on neuroma.
Neuroma first described.
1829
#2610
Recherches sur le traitement du cancer par la compression méthodique. 2 vols.
Récamier was the first to recognize the process of metastasis. He also described for the first time invasion of veins by cancer.
1830
#2611
A short tract on the formation of tumours, and the peculiarities that are met with in the structure of those that have become cancerous; with their mode of treatment.
Contains the first illustrations of microscopic sections of cancer; however, Home drew no worthwhile conclusion from his microscopic studies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1830
#11150
Mémoire sur l'excision de la partie inférieure du rectum, devenue carcinomateuse.
“The first successful operation for rectal cancer was performed by Lisfranc in 1826. This consisted of excising the anus and rectum via the perineum, which resulted in the functional equivalent of a perineal colostomy…
1832
#3762
On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen.
First full description of lymphadenoma, which Wilks in 1865 referred to as “Hodgkin’s disease”. This is more typically designated as Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 1666 Malpighi had vaguely outlined the condition. Hodgkin was…
1833
#6028
Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.
Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.
1837
#539
Symbolae ad anatomiam villorum intestinalium, imprimis eorum epithelii et vasorum lacteorum.
Henle first described the epithelia of the skin and intestines, and defined the structure and function of columnar and ciliated epithelium. He applied the term “epithelium” to all mucous membranes in the body. Modern …
1837
#2611.1
Surgical observations on tumours, with cases and operations.
The first North American book on tumors, with 16 hand-colored plates by David Claypoole Johnston (1799-1865).
1838
#2612
Ueber den feinern Bau und die Formen der krankhaften Geschwülste. Lief. 1.
This classic work showed that Müller realized the necessity of the cell theory for the comprehension of the nature of cancer. He recognized cells, their nuclei and nucleoli, and could distinguish various types of tumo…
1839
#4259
A case of enlargement from melanoid tumour of the prostate gland, in a child of five years of age.
Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford.
1840
#5770
Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.
“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54.
1841
#3444
Maladies de la glande parotide et de la région parotidienne.
First important treatise on parotid tumors.
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.
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 –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 –1845
#267.1
Cours de microscopie. 1 vol. and atlas.
Donne's and Foucault's work was the first biomedical textbook to be illustrated with images made from photomicrographs, in this case daguerreotypes of blood cells. Among its noteworthy images are the first microphotog…
1845
#3061
Case of hypertrophy of the spleen and liver, in which death took place from suppuration of the blood.
First definite description of leukemia as a blood disorder; a case under the care of Sir R. Christison but reported by Bennett. On p. 400 of the same journal is a report of a case by D. Craigie, referring to a patient…
1845
#3062
Weisses Blut.
Only six weeks after Bennett, Virchow independently published a report on the necropsy of a case of leukemia. He gave the condition its present name. For translation, see Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd. e…
1845
#6036
A practical treatise on inflammation, ulceration, and induration of the neck of the uterus.
Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumors.