BUCK, Gurdon (1807 – 1877)
1807 – 1877
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
1845 CE
#4324
The knee-joint anchylosed at a right angle – restored nearly to a straight position after the excision of a wedge-shaped portion of bone, consisting of the patella, condyles and articular surface of the tibia.
Buck’s operation, “one of the more spectacular surgical feats by an American surgeon in the first half of the nineteenth century” (Rutkow). The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 791-99.
1853 CE
#3263
On the surgical treatment of morbid growths within the larynx, illustrated by an original case and statistical observations, elucidating their nature and forms.
Thyrotomy for removal of cancer of the larynx. The operation took place in May 1851, and the patient died in 1852.
1858 CE
#2960
Case of aneurism of the femoral artery for which ligatures were successively applied to the femoral, profunda, external and common iliac.
1860 CE–1862 CE
#4419
New treatment for fractures of the femur.
Buck’s extension apparatus, an improved method of treating fractures of the femur. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 764-82.
1876 CE
#5754.1
Contributions to reparative surgery; showing its application to the treatment of deformities produced by destructive disease or injury; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development; and cicatrical contractions from burns.
First American work exclusively on reconstructive surgery.