Facets

1908 CE

#5693.1

Un appareil pour l’anesthésie par l’éther.

Ombrédanne ether inhaler.

1912 CE

#4386

Un cas d’absence des vertèbres cervicales avec cage thoracique remontant jusqu’à la base du crâne (cage thoracique cervicale).

“Klippel–Feil syndrome” – absence or incomplete development of cervical vertebrae. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 511-16.

1921 CE

#3030

Un cas de cardiolyse.

First pericardiectomy, for constrictive pericarditis.

1896 CE

#4365.1

Un cas de déformation congénitale des quatre membres, plus prononcée aux extrémités, charactérisée par l’allongement des os avec un certain degré d’amincissement.

“Marfan syndrome”. Marfan described only the skeletal deformities. He called the condition dolichostenomelia. Later writers recorded bilateral ectopia lentis and cardiovascular complications in this syndrome.

1982 CE

#5733.4

Under the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia.

The most comprehensive work on the subject. Articles reprinted primarily from Brit. J. Anaesth., with new introduction and index.

1909 CE

#5756.2

Underdeveloped lower jaw, with limited excursion. Report of two cases with operation.

Closed ramisection of the mandible for micrognathia or prognathism.

1921 CE

#4388.1

Une maladie congénitale et héréditaire de l’ossification: la pléonostéose familiale.

“Léri’s pleonosteosis” first described.

1901 CE

#5686

Une nouvelle voie d’injection rachidienne. Méthode des injections épidurales par le procédé du canal sacré. Applications à l’homme.

Caudal anesthesia.

1906 CE

#11563

Uniterminal and biterminal venous transplantations.

"The possibility of transforming a vein into an artery, from a functional point of view, naturally arouses the idea of substituting veins for arteries when the latter are rendered useless by some pathological processe…

1878 CE

#2536

Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten.

Koch’s epochal work on the etiology of traumatic infectious disease established his reputation. He inoculated animals with material from various sources and produced six types of infection, each due to microorga…

1857 CE

#13248

Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung des Schädelgrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande und über Einfluss derselben auf Schädelform, Gesichtsbildung und Gehirnbau.

In his Investigations on the development of the base of the skull in healthy and diseased conditions, and on the influence of the same upon skull form, facial structure and brain formation Virchow laid the foundation …

1892 CE

#4361

Untersuchungen über die sogenannte foetale Rachitis (Chondrodystrophia foetalis).

First study of the cartilage changes in achondroplasia.

1874 CE

#12064

Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica und den Antheil, Welchen sie an der Enstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten Haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verscheidenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.

Billroth provided the first account of streptocci wound infection, calling the bacteria Coccobacteria septica. When Billroth introduced antisepic techniques in his surgical practice the number of surgical patients wit…

1959 CE

#3047.13

Ventricular aneurysm following myocardial infarction: Results of surgical treatment.

Cardiopulmonary bypass and open excision of the aneurysm. With W.S. Henly, K.H. Amad, & D.W. Chapman.

1947 CE

#2878.1

Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.

The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With H.S. Feil.

1903 CE

#4374

Verletzungen des schnabelförmigen Fortsatzes der oberen Tibia-epiphyse.

“Osgood–Schlatter disease”. A further description of the painful affection of the tibial tuberosity first noted by Osgood.

1899 CE

#5684

Versuche über Cocainisirung des Rückenmarkes.

Bier introduced the use of cocaine as a spinal anesthetic.

1946 CE

#8901

Victory over pain: A history of anesthesia.

1838 CE

#4415

Views and treatment of an important injury of the wrist.

“Barton’s fracture” of the radius.

1878 CE–1879 CE

#3469

Volvulus flexurae sigmoideae coli – Laparo-colotomia – Helsa.

First recorded operation for volvulus.

1884 CE

#5678

Vorläufige Mitteilung über locale Anästheserung am Auge.

Introduction of cocaine as a local anesthetic; this was the first local anesthetic employed (16 September 1884). Freud (No. 1880.1) is accredited by some with this innovation, but in this connection see the letter by …

1902 CE

#6210

Vorläufige Mittheilung über die Anwendung von Skopolamin-Morphium-Injecktionen in der Geburtshilfe.

“Twilight sleep”.

1825 CE

#2074

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.

Waterton traveled to the Guyana region of South America to obtain curare. He provided a detailed description of its paralyzing effects, its preparation by distillation, and the blowpipe and darts used to deliver it. O…

1918 CE

#12076

War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1917 CE

#5757.2

Weichteilplastik des Gesichts bei Kieferschuss-Verletzungen.

Independantly of Filatov, Ganzer devised a tubed flap for repairs about the mouth and jaw.

2005 CE

#12315

Who's who in orthopedics.

A biographical encyclopedia of contributors to the history of orthopedics.

1891 CE

#4359.1

Wiring of the vertebrae as a means of immobilization in fracture and Pott’s disease.

“In a case of fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine (C 6-7) he [Hadra] performed open reduction, twisting metal wires around the spinous processes to stabilize the injured sector” (Bick). This is the …

1891 CE

#4359.2

Wiring the spinal processes in Pott’s disease.

First spinal fusion.

1991 CE

#11221

Women under the knife: A history of surgery.

"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…

2015 CE

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…

1682 CE

#8836

Wounds of the brain proved curable, not only by the opinion and experience of many (the best) authors, but the remarkable history of a child four years old cured of two very large depressions, with the loss of a great part of the skull, a portion of the brain also issuing thorough a penetrating wound of the dura and pia mater…

Probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head and brain. Yonge was a naval surgeon who set up in practice in Plymouth after he gave up the sea. He had just performed the operation for an injury of the…

1880 CE

#3473.1

Wyçiecie raka odźwiernika zoladkowego, śmierćw 12 godzinach.

First extirpation of carcinomatous pylorus. Death after 12 hours. German translation in Dtsch. Z. Chir., 1881, 14, 252-60.

1911 CE

#13003

Zur anästhesierung des plexus brachialis.

Kullenkampff performed the first percutaneous supraclavicular block. "Just as his older colleague August Bier (1861–1949) had done with spinal anesthesia in 1898,[24] Kulenkampff subjected himself to the supracl…

1885 CE

#3483

Zur Casuistik und Statistik der Magenresectionen und Gastro-enterostomieen.

Billroth II pylorectomy, reported by von Hacker. Also published in Arch. klin. Chir., 1885, 32, 616-25.

1895 CE

#4873

Zur klinischen Bedeutung der spinalen Punction.

Fürbringer demonstrated the diagnostic value of spinal puncture.

1910 CE

#5695

Zur Narkose beim Menschen mittelst der kontinuierlichen intratrachealen Insufflation von Meltzer.

The clinical introduction of Meltzer and Auer’s method of intratracheal insufflation marks the beginning of modern endotracheal anesthesia. Also reported in Ann. Surg., 1910, 52, 23-29.

1890 CE

#4355

Zur operativen Behandlung der angeborenen Hüftgelenksverrenkungen.

Hoffa’s method of operative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint.

1888 CE

#3493

Zur operativen Behandlung des Prolapsus recti et coli invaginati.

Description of Mikulicz’s important operation for complete prolapse of the rectum.

1855 CE

#4330

Zur Pathologie des menschlichen Fusses.

First description of osteoperiostitis of the metatarsal bones, named “Busquet’s disease” after the latter’s description of it in Rev. Chir. (Paris), 1897, 17, 1065.

1892 CE

#3600

Zur Radicalcur der Hernien.

Kocher’s hernia operation.

1898 CE

#3605

Zur Radikaloperation der Schenkelhernien.

Lotheissen’s operation for femoral hernia.

1911 CE

#3537

Zur Stumpversorgung nach Magenresektion.

Pólya’s modification of the Billroth II operation. Pólya is believed to have been murdered by a Nazi group during the siege of Budapest by the Russians in December, 1944, although his body was neve…

1887 CE

#5638

Zur Sublimatfrage.

Bergmann was a pioneer in the evolution of asepsis. He gradually merged the corrosive sublimate method of antisepsis into steam sterilization of instruments and dressing material, demonstrating its superiority to chem…

1889 CE

#4351

Zur Symptomatologie des multiplen Myeloms.

“Kahler’s disease” – multiple myeloma.

1888 CE

#3492

Zur Technik der Kolotomie.

First successful colostomy.

1920 CE

#5701

Zur Technik der Splanchnicusanästhesie.

Splanchnic anesthesia. See also Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1920, 46, 535.

1898 CE

#4874

Zur Technik der temporären Schädelresektion mit meiner Drahtsäge.

Gigli’s saw adapted for craniotomy. Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1962, 19, 1103.

1899 CE

#5685.1

Zur Theorie der Alkoholnarkose. Erste Mitteilung.

Meyer’s theory of narcosis.

1925 CE

#2254

Zur Therapie schwerer Verbrennungen.

Riehl was an early advocate of blood transfusion in the treatment of shock after burns.

1896 CE

#5755.1

Zwei neue Methoden der Rhinoplastik.

First free bone graft to the nose. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.