Entry Nos. 3400–3499

1793 CE

#2281

The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body.

Baillie was a nephew and pupil of William Hunter. The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as an independent science. See also Nos. 2736, 3167.1. Baillie wa…

1949 CE

#3342

A history of oto-laryngology

From antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

1906 CE

#3400

Ueber die vom Ohrlabyrinth ausgelöste Gegenrollung der Augen bei Normalhörenden.

Bárány’s caloric test for labyrinthine function.

1906 CE

#3401

Untersuchungen über den vom Vestibularapparat des Ohres reflektorisch ausgelösten Rhythmischen und seine Begleiterscheinungen.

Bárány’s pointing test for the localization of circumscribed cerebellar lesions. Republished in book form, Berlin, 1906. In 1914 Bárány was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me…

1911 CE

#3402

Vestibularapparat und Zentralnervensystem.

“Bárány’s syndrome” – unilateral deafness, vertigo, and pain in the occipital region.

1913 CE

#3403

Otosclerosis: certain clinical features and experimental operative procedures.

Jenkins suggested the modern fenestration operation of otosclerosis.

1923 CE

#3404

Some experiences in the surgery of otosclerosis.

Holmgren’s fenestration operation.

1924 CE–1933 CE

#3405

Atlas of otology illustrating the normal and pathological anatomy of the temporal bone. 2 vols.

1928 CE

#3406

Menière’s disease; its diagnosis and a method of treatment.

Dandy’s operation for relief of Menière’s syndrome.

1930 CE

#3407

Otologische Röntgendiagnostik.

Includes a brief history of the subject.

1937 CE

#3408

New technique in the surgical treatment of severe and progressive deafness from otosclerosis.

First successful attempt to restore hearing in otosclerosis by fenestration.

1938 CE

#3409

Observations on the pathology of Menière’s syndrome.

Hallpike and Cairns were first to describe the characteristic histological changes in Menière’s disease. Also published in J Laryng. Otol., 1938, 53, 625-55.

1938 CE

#3410

Improvement of hearing in cases of otosclerosis: a new, one-stage surgical technic.

Lempert’s fenestration operation.

1941 CE

#3411

History and present status of operations on the labyrinthine capsule for otosclerosis.

Kopetzky improved the technique of the fenestration operation. The above has a useful history of the development of this operation. See also his earlier papers in Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1930, 39, 996; 1931, 40, 157.

1942 CE

#3412

The surgical treatment of deafness.

Shambaugh improved the technique of the fenestration operation. See also Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1942, 51, 817-25.

1907 CE–1913 CE

#3413

Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde. 2 vols.

It is fitting that Politzer should have been the greatest historian of otology. He was Professor of Otology in Vienna and his teaching had great influence upon the advancement of the subject. The Geschichte is a maste…

1588 CE

#3416

A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.

This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…

1586 CE

#3417

De medica historia mirabili.

An early history of diseases, with extensive sections on ophthalmology (ff. 66-77) and urology (ff. 260-271). Lib. IV, Cap. iii, page 196 contains the first recorded case of gastric ulcer. Lib. VI. cap. iii contains t…

1732 CE

#3418

Diverses observations anatomiques.

Littré was first to suggest colostomy in intestinal obstruction – “Littré’s operation”.

1717 CE

#3419

An account of the dissection of a child.

First description of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Reprinted in Mark M. Ravitch, "The story of pyloric stenosis," Surgery, 48 (1960) 1117-1143.

1727 CE

#3420

A preternatural perforation found in the upper part of the stomach, with the symptoms it produced.

First reported case of perforating gastric ulcer.

1730 CE

#3421

De motus hemorrhoidalis, et fluxus hemorrhoidum.

An early work specifically on hemorrhoids.

1733 CE

#3422

Two examples of children born with preternatural conformations of the guts.

First description of congenital atresia of the ileum.

1742 CE

#3423

De mutuo intestinorum ingressu.

First recorded successful operation for intussusception in an adult. The paper is also included in Haller’s Disputationes, vol. 1.

1746 CE

#3424

De ruptura intestini duodeni.

First description of duodenal ulcer.

1777 CE

#3425

An account of the diseases most incident to children, from their birth till the age of puberty.

This is an enlarged and more important (third) edition of his An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants (1767) No. 6324. Page 49: Important description of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.

1788 CE

#3426

Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.

First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published…

1793 CE

#3428

Saggio d’osservazioni, e memoire sopra alcuni case singolari riscontrati nell’esercizio della medicina, e della anatomia pratica.

Includes (pp. 33-56) an account of perforating duodenal ulcer.

1798 CE

#3429

Observation sur un enfant né sans anus, et auquel il a été fait une ouverture pour y suppléer.

First successful construction of artificial anus, for congenital atresia, Oct. 20, 1793.

1805 CE

#3430

Mémoire et observation sur l’entérotomie.

The first recorded colostomy for intestinal obstruction was performed by Fine in 1797. The patient survived 3.5 months.

1810 CE

#3431

Animadversiones quaedam chirurgicae experimentis in animalibus factis illustratae.

Experimental excision of the pylorus.

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…

1812 CE

#3433

An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines.

Travers’s researches on intestinal sutures recorded the first accurate knowledge on this subject.

1824 CE

#3434

Extirpation de la parotide.

First excision of the parotid, 1823.

1826 CE

#3435

Mémoire sur l’entéroraphie avec la description d’un procédé nouveau pour pratiquer cette opération chirurgicale.

Description of what is now known as Lembert’s suture, which ensures that serous surface is applied to serous surface in suturing intestine – the foundation of all modern gastric and intestinal surgery. Die…

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

#3437

Mémoire sur une méthode nouvelle pour traiter les anus accidentels.

Dupuytren invented an enterotome to perform his operation for artificial anus.

1829 CE

#3438

Abcès développé dans le petit bassin.

“Dupuytren’s abscess” of the right iliac fossa.

1829 CE

#3439

Traité théorique et pratique des maladies chirurgicales du canal intestinal. 2 vols.

Jobert, famous French surgeon, made his reputation on this book. He was at one time Consulting Physician to Louis XVIII.

1835 CE

#3440

Lectures on diseases of the rectum. III. Preternatural contraction of the sphincter ani.

“Brodie’s pile”. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1938, 2, 929-40.

1836 CE

#3441

Glückliche Heilung nach Ausscheidung eines Theiles des Darms und Netzes.

First account of a resection in which Lembert’s suture was successfully employed.

1839 CE

#3442

Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel dans la région lombaire sans pénétrer dans le péritoine.

In 1839 Amussat performed the first lumbar colostomy for obstruction of the colon (“Amussat’s operation”). His work established lumbar colostomy as the method of choice. Translated in Dis. Colon. Rec…

1839 CE

#3443

Opération d’anus artificiel, par la méthode de Littre, sur un homme adulte qui a survécu vingt-huit jours. In: Amussat, J. Z., Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel

Pillore performed caecostomy in 1776, the patient surviving 28 days. Amussat went to considerable trouble to find the document describing the operation. See No. 3442.

1841 CE

#3444

Maladies de la glande parotide et de la région parotidienne.

First important treatise on parotid tumors.

1842 CE

#3445

On acute ulceration of the duodenum, in cases of burn.

“Curling’s ulcer”. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it.

1843 CE

#3446

An experimental and critical inquiry into the nature and treatment of wounds of the intestines.

Reports of a series of experiments upon dogs to determine the best way to treat intestinal wounds. First published in West. J. Med. Surg., 1843. 7, 1-50, [81]-141, [161]-224.

1844 CE

#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 CE

#3448

Practical observations on organic obstruction of the oesophagus; preceded by a case which called for oesophagotomy and subsequent opening of the trachea.

First esophagotomy for relief of stricture of the esophagus.

1847 CE

#3449

Case of internal strangulation of intestine relieved by operation.

Records the first operation for intestinal strangulation of the small intestine by Hilton at Guy’s Hospital. No anaesthetic was used; the patient died nine hours afterwards.

1848 CE–1849 CE

#3450

On the existence of Entophyta in healthy animals, as a natural condition.

Discovery of the bacterial flora of the intestines.