BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)

1846 CE

#11914

Animal magnetism superceded: Discovery of a new hypnopoietic.

The first publication in England of the discovery of ether anesthesia appeared in the "Medical Intelligence" section of the London Medical Gazette on December 18, 1846. Prior to Fulton & Stanton's discovery of this ar…

1846 CE

#5651

Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.

William T. G. Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time on 16 October 1846 during at operation by John Collins Warren to remove a benign angioma under the jaw of a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital…

1848 CE

#5730

Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers and discovery.

Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery (No. 5651), and his subsequent advocacy of ether as an anesthetic assured its adoption throughout the civilized world. The above work deals with the prior…

1852 CE

#4461

Resection of the head of the femur.

First excision of the hip-joint in America. Unfortunately the one-page article provides no details.

1869 CE

#4424

The mechanism of dislocation and fracture of the hip. With the reduction of the dislocations by the flexion method.

Bigelow was the first to describe in detail the mechanism of the iliofemoral (Bigelow’s) ligament, and to show its importance in the reduction of dislocation by the flexion method.

1876 CE

#6586

A century of American medicine 1776-1876

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1878 CE

#4292

Lithotrity by a single operation.

Introduction of litholapaxy at one sitting.