Facets

1954 CE

#11916

First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history.

The most ancient testimony concerning the opium poppy found to date was inscribed in cuneiform script on a small white clay tablet at the end of the third millennium BC. This tablet was discovered in 1954 during excav…

1994 CE

#7647

I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.

Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.

1856 CE

#14062

Kitab-i jarrahi wa yak risalah dar kahhali [in Persian; English translation: Book on surgery with a treatise on ophthalmology]. Lithographed text.

The first Persian-language surgery and ophthalmology textbook based on Western medical science. Polak based his textbook on Joseph Maximilien Chelius’s Handbuch der Chirurgie (1830) and Handbuch der Augenheilkun…

1984 CE

#10330

Stapling in surgery.

Ravitch and Steichen refined primitive surgical stapling systems that were developed in Russia, and made them viable in a wide range of procedures.

1927 CE

#3088

"Methodology of examining bone marrow in live patients, with haemopoietic disease."

Needle puncture of bone marrow biopsy. (In Russian.) German account in Folia haemat. (Lpz.), 1929, 38, 233-40. English translation from the German in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 339-44.

2007 CE

#7963

"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.

The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…

1938 CE

#4435.01

“Rotules à os” pour la réduction dirigée, non sanglante, des fractures (“ostéotaxis”).

Hoffmann, a Swiss general surgeon with a doctorate in theology and unusual skill in carpentry, developed the versatile Hoffmann system of external fixation devices.

1861 CE–1862 CE

#13270

(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.

Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of …

1942 CE

#3611.1

A ‘slide’ operation for inguinal and femoral hernia.

The Tanner slide operation as a relaxing incision.

1937 CE

#11215

A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré: Premier chirugien & conseiller du Roy

1939 CE

#11189

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

2000 CE

#8718

A brief history of endoscopy.

1985 CE

#10054

A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.

1889 CE

#4861.1

A case in which acute spasmodic pain in the left lower extremity was completely relieved by sub-dural division of the posterior roots of certain spinal nerves, all other treatment having proved useless. Death from sudden collapse and cerebral haemorrhage on the twelfth day after the operation, at the commencement of apparent convalescence.

Posterior rhizotomy.

1811 CE

#2931

A case of aneurism by anastomosis in the orbit, cured by the ligature of the common carotid artery.

1837 CE

#2958

A case of aneurism of either the ischiatic or gluteal artery, in which the right internal iliac artery was successfully tied.

Second successful reported ligation of the internal iliac artery in the United States.

1809 CE

#2929

A case of aneurism of the carotid artery.

Cooper ligated the common carotid artery on Nov. 1, 1805; the patient died, but a second case (June 22, 1808) proved successful. (See also No. 2955).

1814 CE

#2935

A case of aneurism of the gluteal artery, cured by tying the internal iliac.

First successful ligation of the internal iliac, Dec. 27, 1812. The patient died in 1822 and an account of the autopsy is given by Richard Owen in Med.-chir. Trans.,1830, 16,219-35.

1814 CE

#2934

A case of carotid aneurism successfully treated.

Post, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at Columbia College, New York, was the first in America to ligate the common carotid artery for aneurysmal disease.

1804 CE

#4409.1

A case of fracture of the os humeri, in which the broken ends of the bone not uniting the usual manner, a cure was effected by means of a seton.

The first paper on orthopedic surgery published in the United States. Physick introduced the use of the seton in the treatment of ununited fractures.

1835 CE

#3440.1

A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.

First operation for intussusception in the United States, performed in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The patient was a negro slave; the operation was a complete success. Reported by Wilson’s pupil, W.W. Thompson.

1885 CE

#3595

A case of strangulated hernia into the fossa intersigmoidea.

First definitely authenticated case of intersigmoid hernia.

1888 CE

#4860

A case of tumour of the spinal cord. Removal; recovery.

Horsley was the founder of neurosurgery in England. The above paper records the first successful operation for the removal of an extramedullary tumor of the spinal cord.

1876 CE

#5795

A century of American surgery.

The first serious history of American surgery to 1876. Also published in No. 6586.

1987 CE

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1981 CE

#10329

A century of surgery: The history of the American Surgical Association, 1880-1980. 2 vols.

1926 CE

#4608

A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis.

From 1922 to 1925 Bailey undertook extensive pathological and histological studies of brain tumors, and based on cellular configuration, he created a classification system of thirteen categories. In 1927 he reduced th…

1898 CE

#5778

A clinical and histological study of certain adenocarcinomata of the breast, and a brief consideration of the supraclavicular operations for cancer of the breast from 1889 to 1898 at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

1889 CE

#4860.1

A contribution to the surgery of the spine.

Posterior rhizotomy.

1865 CE

#4336

A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint.

A valuable contribution to the knowledge and surgical treatment of diseases of the knee-joint.

1809 CE

#5585

A dictionary of practical surgery.

Cooper was surgeon on the field at Waterloo, and was later appointed to the chair of surgery at University College, London. His great dictionary went through seven editions during his lifetime and was translated into …

1596 CE

#5567

A discourse on the whole art of chyrurgerie.

The first systematic work on the whole subject of surgery written in England. Lowe was the founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. This was the first medical organization in Great Britain to incl…

1820 CE

#7596

A dissertation on the treatment of morbid local affections of nerves.

An early discussion of peripheral nerve injuries, tumors, and inflammation of nerves, including issues of pain and healing. Swan was among the first of the 19th-century surgeons to argue that divided nerves that are s…

1966 CE

#4405.4

A flexible implant for replacement of arthritic or destroyed joints in the hand.

“Swanson prosthesis” – flexible silicone rubber finger-joint prosthesis.

1926 CE

#5782.1

A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.

First modern case-control study.

1922 CE

#5008

A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain.

Thomas Vicary Lecture. First published in Lancet, 1922, 1, 111-16, 165-72.

2007 CE

#7622

A history of limb amputation.

2008 CE

#10134

A history of microsurgery.

2008 CE

#14011

A history of neuro-oncology.

1951 CE

#5017

A history of neurological surgery. Edited by A. Earl Walker.

Includes a bibliography of nearly 2,400 references, nearly all of which are secondary sources.

1997 CE

#6826

A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts. Samuel H. Greenblat, Editor. T. Forscht Dagi and Mel H. Epstein, Constributing Editors.

The most comprehensive history of the subject.

2012 CE

#8777

A history of organ transplantation: Ancient legends to modern practice.

2007 CE

#11085

A history of plastic surgery.

1988 CE

#9970

A history of surgery: With emphasis on the Netherlands.

1965 CE

#5813.6

A history of the acute abdomen.

1847 CE

#5660

A history of the discovery of the application of nitrous oxide gas, ether, and other vapours, to surgical operations.

In 1844 Wells, a Hartford dentist, successfully used nitrous oxide as a dental anesthetic. To publicize his discovery, he arranged a demonstration at Harvard Medical School in January 1845, but this proved a fiasco. W…

1916 CE

#6537.1

A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.

First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1996 CE

#12794

A history of transplantation immunology.

Written by one of the founders of the science.

1989 CE

#10172

A history of vascular surgery.

Second, updated edition: Maklen, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

1967 CE

#3047.20

A human cardiac transplant: An interim report of a successful operation performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

First human heart transplant. The operation was on Dec. 3, 1967, and the patient died on Dec. 21.