1844 CE
#5598
A treatise on operative surgery.
Pancoast was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Jefferson Medical College. He was a fine operator and devised a number of new surgical operations and instruments. This was work contains 80 fine lithographed plates, a…
1859 CE
#4170
Plastic operation for exstrophy of the bladder in the male; reported by S. D. Gross.
Pancoast performed the first successful operation for exstrophy of the bladder (ectopia vesicae).
1871 CE–1872 CE
#4855
New operation for the relief of persistent facial neuralgia.
Pancoast devised the operative procedure of sectioning the second and third branches of the fifth pair of nerves as they emerge from the base of the brain. Reported by F. Woodbury.