Entry Nos. 3000–3099

1802 CE

#2207

Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione.

Samuel Johnson called Heberden “the last of our learned physicians”. The above work included all his important papers, which had earned him his great reputation, and which are dealt with elsewhere in this …

1933 CE

#2899

Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity.

Thyroidectomy for congestive heart failure and angina pectoris. With D. D. Berlin.

1916 CE

#3000

Ueber die konservative Behandlung der Varicen.

Injection treatment of varicose veins was introduced by Linser.

1921 CE

#3001

Du traitement des varices par les injection coagulantes, concentrées de sels de quinine.

Injection of quinine urethane for the treatment of varicose veins.

1922 CE

#3002

Traitement des varices par les injections phlébo-sclérosantes du salicylate de soude.

Introduction of sodium salicylate injections for the treatment of varicose veins. With J. Paraf and J. Lermoyez.

1925 CE

#3003

Die Behandlung der Krampfadern mit intravarikösen Kochsalzinjektionen.

Sodium chloride first used in the injection treatment of varicose veins.

1926 CE

#3004

Die Calorose als Verödungsmittel varikös entarteter Venen.

Nobl used dextrose in the injection treatment of varicose veins.

1934 CE

#3005

The treatment of varicose veins.

Cooper combined ligation with subsequent injection of 5 per cent sodium morrhuate in the treatment of varicose veins.

1856 CE

#3006

Thrombose und Embolie. Gefässentzündung und septische Infektion. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin.

Reprints of papers published between 1846 and 1853. Virchow gave the first clear description of thrombosis and embolism (see especially Beitr. exp. Path.,1846, 2,227-380). This work was translated into English by A. C…

1862 CE

#3007

Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Anatomie der Lungen.

First description of pulmonary fat embolism in man.

1862 CE

#3008

Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der Embolie.

Experimental study of the effects of ligation of coronary vessels.

1870 CE

#3009

Traité clinique et expérimental des embolies capillaires.

1872 CE

#3010

Untersuchungen über die embolischen Processe.

Cohnheim developed the doctrine of infarction as a result of occlusion of terminal arteries. He explained the haemorrhagic nature of certain infarcts on the basis of a reflux flow and diapedesis through the altered ca…

1899 CE

#3011

Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821

1908 CE

#3012

Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.

Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).

1911 CE

#3013

Embolie fémorale au cours d’un rétrécissement mitral pur. Arteriotomie. Guérison.

First successful embolectomy; operation carried out by G. Labey, November 16, 1911.

1913 CE

#3014

Ein Fall operierter Embolie der Arteria femoralis.

Key performed his first successful embolectomy on December 4, 1912, and reported it to a meeting of the Svenska Läkaresällskapet on January 28, 1913. See also his review in Ergebn. Chir. Orthop.,1929, 22,1-94.

1913 CE

#3015

Traumatic lipaemia and fatty embolism.

Classic clinical description of pulmonary fat embolism.

1924 CE

#3016

Ein durch die Trendelenburgsche Operation geheilter Fall von Embolie der Art. pulmonalis.

First successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism, a procedure suggested by Trendelenburg in 1908 (see No. 3012).

1925 CE

#3017

Report of a successful case of embolectomy.

First successful embolectomy in Britain.

1929 CE

#3018

Phlébites, thromboses et embolies post-opératoires.

1937 CE

#3019

Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…

1948 CE

#3020

Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.

With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.

1814 CE–1815 CE

#3021

Sur l’hydrothorax et l’hydropéricarde.

First successful pericardiocentesis. The above reference is not to his first writing on the subject, which cannot be traced. See also Dict.Sci. med.,1819, 40, 370.

1876 CE

#3022

Ueber die Paracentese des Perikardiums.

Account of first pericardiocentesis for suppurative pericarditis.

1896 CE

#3023

Fall von penetrirender Stichverletzung des rechten Ventrikel’s. Herznaht.

Rehn was the first successfully to suture a wound of the human heart.

1900 CE

#3024

Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde.

Jaboulay was the first to perform the operation of sympathectomy for the relief of vascular disease.

1902 CE

#3025

Ueber chronich adhäsive Mediastino-Perikarditis und deren Behandlung.

Brauer was first to suggest the operation of cardiolysis, a procedure carried out by Petersen.

1907 CE

#3026

The surgery of blood vessels, etc.

Carrel’s remarkable technique of end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels; see also No. 2909.

1908 CE

#3027

Results of the transplantation of blood vessels, organs and limbs.

Carrel showed that arteries kept for days or weeks outside the body can be transplanted successfully.

1910 CE

#3028

Latent life of arteries.

Carrel’s experiments showed that it was possible to preserve portions of blood vessels in cold storage for long periods before using them in transplantation. For an appreciation of Carrel, see Garrison’s H…

1914 CE

#3029

Etude expérimentelle sur la chirurgie des valvules du coeur.

Tuffier carried out the first successful experimental operation for the relief of chronic valvular disease. He also operated successfully in a case of aortic stenosis.

1921 CE

#3030

Un cas de cardiolyse.

First pericardiectomy, for constrictive pericarditis.

1923 CE

#3031

Ueber Erkennung und Behandlung der Umklammerung des Herzens durch schwielige Perikarditis.

First complete pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis.

1925 CE

#3032

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis.

Mitral valvotomy; report of a successful case.

1935 CE

#3034

The development of a new blood supply to the heart by operation.

By implantation of the pectoral muscle into the pericardium, Beck provided a collateral circulation to the heart for the relief of myocardial ischemia. This paper recorded the first operation on a man. It was preceded…

1935 CE

#3035

The production of a collateral circulation to the heart. I. An experimental study.

First cardio-omentopexy.

1935 CE–1936 CE

#3036

The surgical treatment of hypertension.

Peet operation for hypertension. Preliminary communication in Univ. Hosp. Bull. (Ann Arbor), 1935, 1,17-18.

1936 CE

#3037

An experimental method of providing a collateral circulation to the heart.

By attaching a pedicled omental graft to the surface of the heart (cardio-omentopexy), thus providing a collateral circulation to that organ, O’Shaughnessy made an important advance in the treatment of angina an…

1937 CE

#3038

Arterectomy.

Arterectomy in arterial thrombosis. With R. Fontaine and S. M. Dupertuis.

1939 CE

#3039

Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.

One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.

1940 CE

#3040

De la résection du carrefour aortico-iliaque avec double sympathectomie lombaire pour thrombose artéritique de l’aorte; le syndrome de l’oblitération termino-aortique par artérite.

Obliteration of the abdominal aorta.

1940 CE

#3041

A technique for splanchnic resection for hypertension; preliminary report.

Smithwick operation for hypertension.

1941 CE

#3042

Surgery of the heart.

Includes valuable information regarding the history of the subject.

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1945 CE

#3044

Congenital coarctation of the aorta and its surgical treatment.

Crafoord and Gross (No. 3044.1) pioneered this basic operation in cardiac and pediatric surgery.

1946 CE

#3045

Anastomosis of the aorta to a pulmonary artery. Certain types in congenital heart disease.

With S. Smith and S. Gibson.

1948 CE

#3046

Pulmonary valvulotomy for the relief of congenital pulmonary stenosis. Report of three cases.

"Brock performed the first successful valvotomies for isolated pulmonary stenosis in 1948. He gained access to the blood-filled beating heart through a small incision in the right ventricle through which he passed a v…

1948 CE

#3047

A venous shunt for marked mitral stenosis.

First pulmonary-azygos shunt operation for relief of mitral stenosis. Two further patients were operated upon later the same year; all three are reported in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1949, 140, 1259. A similar procedure was …

1519 CE

#3048

Liber theoricae nec non practicae Alsaharavii.

This is the first printing of the medical and therapeutic section of Abul Qasim’s medical encyclopedia or al-Tasrif. It contains what is probably the earliest description of hemophilia (fol. 145). Digital facsim…