WANGENSTEEN, Owen Harding (1898 – 1981)
1898 – 1981
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1932 CE
#3554
The early diagnosis of acute intestinal obstruction with comments on pathology and treatment. With a report of successful decompression of three cases of mechanical bowel obstruction by nasal catheter suction siphonage.
Wangensteen’s apparatus for relief of acute intestinal obstruction. See also his Intestinal Obstructions: Physiological, pathological and clinical considerations with emphasis on therapy, including description o…
1978 CE
#5813.11
The rise of surgery from empiric craft to scientific discipline.
Not a systematic history but an assessment of those technical factors that contributed to or retarded the advance of surgery.