Entry Nos. 3400–3499

1849 CE

#3451

Opération de gastrostomie pratiquée pour la première fois le 13 novembre 1849.

First gastrostomy.

1854 CE

#3452

Ueber Anlegung einer künstlichen Magenöffnung am Menschen durch Gastrotomie.

Fenger’s operation.

1855 CE

#3453

Note sur l’emploi du chlorate de potasse dans le traitement de la stomatite ulcéreuse.

Classic description of ulcero-membranous stomatitis and its treatment.

1857 CE

#3454

On the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of ulcer of the stomach.

A comprehensive account of peptic (duodenal) ulcer; includes a review of the results of more than 7,000 post mortems.

1857 CE

#3455

Infusorier, sasom intestinaldjur hos menniskan.

Discovery of Balantidium coli, the first parasitic protozoon to be discovered and recognized as such. German translation in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1857, 12, 302-09. English translation in Kean et al. (No. 2268.1).

1857 CE

#3456

De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.

First operation for tumor of the esophagus.

1858 CE

#3457

Description of the operation of gastrotomy.

First gastrostomy in Britain.

1859 CE

#3458

The diseases of the stomach.

Includes (pp. 310-31) original description of linitis plastica (“Brinton’s disease”). Brinton lectured on physiology and forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital.

1859 CE

#3459

Commentatio de fistulis ventriculi externis et chirurgica earum sanatione.

First operation for gastric fistula.

1861 CE

#3460

Ueber polypöse Vegetationen der gesammten Dickdarmschleimhaut.

First authentic description of polyposis of the colon.

1864 CE

#3461

Das perforirende Geschwür im Duodenum.

The first comprehensive study of duodenal ulcer. Commercial edition, Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1864 edition from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1865 …

1867 CE

#3462

Intestinal obstruction.

1869 CE

#3463

Ueber die Behandlung der Magenerweiterung durch eine neue Methode (mittelst der Magenpumpe).

In 1867 Kussmaul used the stomach pump for gastric dilatation due to pyloric obstruction. Although his advocacy of gastric lavage established this method of treatment in medical practice, the instrument had already be…

1870 CE

#3464

Case of stricture of the oesophagus in which gastrotomy was performed.

First gastrostomy for obstruction of the esophagus performed in America.

1872 CE

#3465

Ueber die Resection des Oesophagus.

First resection of the esophagus.

1874 CE

#3466

A successful case of abdominal section for intussusception.

In 1871 Hutchinson was the first successfully to operate on a case of intussusception in a two year-old infant. Preliminary account in Med. chir. Trans., 1876, 41 (2nd ser.), 99-102.

1875 CE

#3467

Gastrostomy for stricture (cancerous?) of oesophagus; death from bronchitis forty days after operation.

Successful human gastrostomy by the older (Sédillot’s) method. Reported by S. Osborne.

1876 CE

#3468

Observation de gastro-stomie pratiquée avec succès pour un rétrécissement cicatriciel infranchissable de l’oesophage.

Verneuil’s gastrostomy operation, a modification of Sédillot’s method.

1878 CE–1879 CE

#3469

Volvulus flexurae sigmoideae coli – Laparo-colotomia – Helsa.

First recorded operation for volvulus.

1878 CE

#3470

Ueber den Mastdarmkrebs und die Extirparlo recti.

First excision of the rectum for cancer.

1879 CE–1902 CE

#3471

Klinik der Verdauungskrankheiten. 3 vols.

An important work on disorders of digestion. With Boas, Ewald devised the test breakfast and he utilized intubation for exploring the contents of the stomach. English translation of vols. 1-2, 1891-92.

1879 CE

#3472

De l’ablation des tumeurs de l’estomac par la gastrectomie.

First gastrectomy for carcinoma; unsuccessful.

1880 CE

#3473

Ueber Radicalheilung des Krebses.

Kocher’s operation of radical extirpation of the tongue for carcinoma.

1881 CE

#3474

Offenes Schreiben an Herrn Dr. L. Wittelshöfer.

First successful resection of the pylorus for cancer, the Billroth I operation.

1881 CE

#3475

Ueber Gastroskopie und Oesophagoskopie.

Mikulicz was the first to use the electric oesophagoscope invented by Leiter in 1880. He was among the most distinguished of Billroth’s pupils and contributed much to cancer surgery.

1881 CE

#3476

Gastro-Enterostomie.

Wölfler perfected the operation of gastro-enterostomy.

1882 CE

#3477

Intorno alla divulsione digitale del pilore; osservazione cliniche.

First pyloroplasty, 1882. Abstract in English in Brit. med.J., 1885, 1, 372-74.

1882 CE

#3478

Przypadek chorobowo wzmoźonego wydzielania soku zoladkowego.

First description of gastrosuccorrhoea (“Reichmann’s disease”). German translation in Berl. klin. Wschr., 1882, 19, 606.

1881 CE

#3479

On a case of obstruction of the bowels due to volvulus, treated by abdominal section; recovery.

First successful operation in Britain for treatment of volvulus, performed 20 February, 1883.

1884 CE

#3480

Darmresektion und Enterorhaphieen, 1878-83.

Billroth was a pioneer in visceral surgery. Above is an account of many intestinal resections and enterorrhaphies carried out by him.

1884 CE

#3481

Untersuchungen über Cholera nostras.

Finkler and Prior isolated Vibrio proteus from stools in a case of acute gastro-enteritis.

1884 CE

#3482

Intestinal obstruction

Jacksonian Prize essay.

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.

1885 CE

#3484

Application de la méthode naturelle à l’analyse de la dyspepsie nerveuse. – Détermination d’une espèce.

Important description of enteroptosis and gastroptosis.

1886 CE

#3485

Neurasthénie et enteroptose.

Splanchnoptosis (“Glénard’s disease”).

1886 CE

#3486

Ueber die Verwendung des Musculus rectus abdominis zum Verschlusse der künstlichen Magenfistel.

Von Hacker’s method of gastrostomy.

1886 CE

#3487

Ein Fall von Resection des carcinomatösen Oesophagus mit plastischem Ersatz des excidierten Stückes.

Von Mikulicz was the first to make a plastic reconstruction of the oesophagus after the resection of its cervical portion for carcinoma.

1887 CE

#3488

Circular suture of the intestines; an experimental study.

Halsted set down some of the fundamental rules regarding intestinal anastomosis.

1887 CE–1888 CE

#3489

Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.

Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).

1887 CE

#3490

Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti.

Kraske introduced the sacral method of resection of the rectum for carcinoma.

1888 CE

#3491

On the coeliac affection.

Coeliac disease (non-tropical sprue, idiopathic steatorrhoea) was first described by Gee. Later Thaysen (No. 3550) studied the disease, which acquired the eponym “Gee-Thaysen disease”.

1888 CE

#3492

Zur Technik der Kolotomie.

First successful colostomy.

1888 CE

#3493

Zur operativen Behandlung des Prolapsus recti et coli invaginati.

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

1888 CE

#3494

Rectal insufflation of hydrogen gas an infallible test in the diagnosis of visceral injury of the gastro-intestinal canal in penetrating wounds of the abdomen.

Senn’s method of detecting intestinal perforation by insufflation with hydrogen.

1889 CE

#3495

Die Gastrodiaphanie.

Einhorn devised the method of exploration of the stomach by means of a tube – gastrodiaphany.

1889 CE

#3496

Ueber Darmsaftgewinnung beim Menschen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.)

Duodenal aspiration.

1890 CE–1893 CE

#3497

Diagnostik und Therapie der Magenkrankheiten. 2 pts.

Boas, who devised the test breakfast, became the foremost gastroenterologist in Europe. He founded the Archivfür Verdauungskrankheiten, the first journal devoted to the subject of gastroenterology.

1891 CE

#3498

Ueber Magensyphilis.

Important study of gastric syphilis.

1891 CE

#3499

A method of performing inguinal colotomy, with cases.

Paul’s tube introduced.