Facets

1832 CE

#14180

Traité theorique et pratique de la ligature des artères.

Manec was head of anatomy at the Facultè de Médecine de Paris and a surgeon at the Salpetrière. He wrote text of his atlas on ligations of arteries in the first person based upon his experience pe…

1850 CE

#9383

Traité théorique et pratique de la méthode anesthésique appliquée a la chirurgie et aux différentes branches de l'art de guérir.

Of particular interest for the introductory chapter 2 on pain produced in surgical operations and chapter 3 on the history of the understanding and attempts at treatment of pain, surgical and otherwise, before ether a…

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.

1915 CE

#5642

Traitement abortif de l’infection des plaies.

Carrel–Dakin treatment of wounds. With J. Daufresne and M. Dumas. Carrel & Dehelly expanded this into a monograph entitled Le traitement des plaies infectées. Paris: Masson et Cie, 1917. That was rapidly …

1931 CE

#4898

Traitement des syndromes douloureux de la périphérie par 1’alcoolisation sub-arachnoïdienne des racines postérieures à leur émergence de la moelle épinière.

Subarachnoid injection of alcohol for the relief of pain.

2001 CE

#7959

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…

1959 CE

#13334

Transfusions et greffes de moelle osseuse homologue chez des humains irradiés a haute dos accidentellement.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Mathé, Jammet, Pendic et al. Mathé performed the first bone marrow graft between unrelated donors and hosts in order to save six Yugoslavian nuclear resea…

1969 CE

#4914.5

Transphenoidal microsurgery of the normal and pathological pituitary. In: Clinical neurosurgery: Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…1968, 185-217.

Confirmation of Cushing’s idea that a micro-tumor causes Cushing’s syndrome. See No. 3904.

2003 CE

#10143

Transplant: From myth to reality.

2003 CE

#12241

Transplant: From myth to reality.

"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…

1890 CE

#3837

Transplantation du corps thyroïde sur l’homme.

First thyroid transplantation (for treatment of cretinism).

1908 CE

#4235

Transplantation in mass of the kidneys.

Carrel revolutionized vascular surgery. He transplanted the kidney from one animal to another, an operation later carried out successfully in man. For his earlier work on vascular anastomosis and transplantation of vi…

1911 CE

#4384.1

Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the spine for Pott’s disease. A preliminary report.

The beginning of bone graft surgery as a planned, carefully designed procedure. Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. See No. 5757.

1930 CE

#5979

Transplantation of cornea: a preliminary report on a series of experiments on rabbits.

See also his paper in Brit. J. Ophthal., 1934, 18, 129-42.

1973 CE

#14161

Transplantation of isolated pancreatic islets into the portal vein of diabetic rats.

Lacy and colleagues showed that transplanation of murine pancreatic islet tissue into the portal vein of diabetic rats of the same inbred strain normalized the sugar levels and urine output of the rats that received t…

1851 CE

#2614

Transplantation of malignant tumors.

First experimental transplantation of tumors.

1935 CE

#5986

Transplantation of the cornea.

Earlier papers recording the important work of Filatov on corneal transplantation appeared in Russian journals.

1933 CE

#11688

Transplantation of the intact mammalian heart.

Mann and colleagues accomplished the first transplantation of an intact mammalian heart.

1888 CE

#2985

Traumatic aneurism of the left brachial artery. Failure of direct and indirect pressure; ligation of the artery immediately above tumor; return of pulsation on the tenth day; ligation immediately below tumor; failure to arrest pulsation; incision and partial excision of sac; recovery.

First aneurysmorrhaphy, April 6, 1888. See also Trans. Amer. surg.Ass.,1902, 20,396-434.

1928 CE

#3004.1

Traumatic aneurysm of the intracranial portion of the internal carotid artery. With a note by Wilfred Trotter.

In 1924 Wilfred Trotter(1872-1939) performed the first planned operation for intracranial aneurysm diagnosed pre-operatively.

1913 CE

#3015

Traumatic lipaemia and fatty embolism.

Classic clinical description of pulmonary fat embolism.

1898 CE

#4429.1

Traumatic separation of the epiphyses.

Definitive and exhaustive study of growth plate fractures in children. Poland also published the series of x rays included in the above work as a separate atlas: Skiagraphic atlas showing the development of the bones …

1892 CE

#4357

Traumatische rarefizierende Ostitis.

“Kümmell’s disease”. He described a form of traumatic spondylitis.

1890 CE

#4353

Treatise on orthopedic surgery.

Includes a description of the “Bradford frame”, used in the treatment of spinal disorders.

1838 CE

#3587

Treatise on ruptures. 5th ed.

This was the standard text for many years. It first appeared in 1807 as Treatise on hernia.

1831 CE

#4457

Treatise on the excision of diseased joints.

Syme, teacher and father-in-law of Lister, was one of the greatest of the Scottish surgeons. He is remembered for his method of amputation at the ankle (see No. 4459), for his speedy adoption of anesthesia and antisep…

1935 CE

#3659.1

Treatment of carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater.

Pancreaticoduodenectomy for cancer of pancreas. With W. B. Parsons and C. R. Mullins.

1867 CE

#4423

Treatment of fractures of the lower extremity, by use of the anterior suspensory apparatus.

1915 CE

#2177

Treatment of gunshot wounds by excision and primary suture.

Gray revived débridement of wounds, with primary suture. This procedure has been traditionally credited to Larrey and Desault. Larrey (No. 2160) employed excision and primary suture only for treatment of wounds…

1934 CE

#4903

Treatment of hydrocephalus by endoscopic coagulation of the choroid plexus. Description of a new instrument and preliminary report of results.

1962 CE

#4405.2

Treatment of scoliosis: Correction and internal fixation by spine instrumentation.

The “Harrington rod” system for scoliosis and spine fracture surgery.

2019 CE

#11389

Trepanation, trephining and craniotomy: History and stories.

2003 CE

#14236

Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. Edited by Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, and C.U.M Smith.

1928 CE

#13778

Tumors arising from the blood-vessels of the brain. Angiomatous malformations and hemangioblastomas.

1931 CE

#4400

Tumors of bone.

1917 CE

#4601

Tumors of the nervus acusticus and the syndrome of the cerebello-pontile angle.

Reprinted 1963.

1879 CE

#4856

Tumour of the dura mater–convulsions–removal of tumour by trephining–recovery.

1931 CE

#5784

Tumours of the breast. Their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

1846 CE

#7310

U. S. Patent No. 4848. The United States of America. To all to whom these Letters Patent shall come.... November 12, 1846.

U.S. Patent No. 4848, issued to Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton on November 12, 1846 for the discovery of sulfuric ether as a surgical anesthetic. This was the first truly significant medical patent ever i…

1893 CE

#3512

Über die Anlegung einer röhrenformigen Magenfistel bei Verengerungen der Speiseröhre.

Ssabanejew and Frank independently developed a new method of gastrostomy, the Ssabanejew-Frank operation. The above is an abstract of the original, which appeared in Khirurgitscheski Vestnik, June 1893.

1898 CE

#5755.3

Über die operative Verkleinerung eine Nase (Rhinomiosis).

Joseph rhinoplasty, developed independently of Roe (Nos. 5754.4-5) and Weir (No. 5754.6). Translation in Plast. reconstr. Surg., 1970, 46, 178-81.

1910 CE–1911 CE

#4379

Über Luxationen im Bereiche der Handwurzel.

First description of a slowly progressive osteonecrosis of the lunate bone of the wrist; carpal lunate malacia. (“Kienböck’s disease”).

1882 CE

#5677

Über Trimethylene.

Cyclopropane (trimethylene) first prepared.

1884 CE

#5754.3

Übereine Modification der Hasenschartenoperation.

Hagedom’s operation is important as forming the basis of most modern methods of unilateral cleft lip repair.

1906 CE

#4376

Ueber Ablösung von Gelenkteilen und verwandte Prozesse.

Büdinger was the first to describe pathological fracture of the cartilage of the patella. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1908, 92, 510-36. Later descriptions by Karl Ludloff, Verh. dtsch. Ges. Chir…

1901 CE

#4370

Ueber acute Knochenatrophie bei Entzündungsprocessen an den Extremitäten (fälschlich sogenannte Inactivitätsatrophie der Knochen) und ihre Diagnose nach dem Röntgen-Bilde.

“Kienböck’s atrophy” – acute atrophy of bone in inflammatory conditions of the extremities.

1854 CE

#3452

Ueber Anlegung einer künstlichen Magenöffnung am Menschen durch Gastrotomie.

Fenger’s operation.

1899 CE

#2908.2

Ueber Arteriennaht.

All-layer intima-to-intima arterial anastomosis.

1910 CE

#4382

Ueber Arthritis deformans juvenilis.

See No. 4380.

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.