PHYSICK, Philip Syng (1768 – 1837)
1768 – 1837
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1804 CE
#4409.1
A case of fracture of the os humeri, in which the broken ends of the bone not uniting the usual manner, a cure was effected by means of a seton.
The first paper on orthopedic surgery published in the United States. Physick introduced the use of the seton in the treatment of ununited fractures.
1812 CE–1813 CE
#3432
Account of a new mode of extracting poisonous substances from the stomach.
Physick was the first, in 1805, to use a stomach tube for gastric lavage in a case of poisoning. He acknowledged the priority of Monro secundus in the invention of a similar instrument in 1767. For history of the stom…
1816 CE
#5586
Buck-skin and kid ligatures
Physick, the “Father of American surgery”, graduated at Edinburgh, having been a pupil of John Hunter. He introduced several new procedures in surgery, one of which was the use of absorbable kid and bucksk…
1826 CE
#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.
1828 CE
#3255
Description of a forceps, employed to facilitate the extirpation of the tonsil.
Invention of the modern tonsillotome.