Entry Nos. 3500–3599

1898 CE

#2687.1

The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays.

Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He showed that bismuth, opaque to x rays, could be of great use in conjunction with roentgenology in the investigation of the digestive tract. See No. 1029.

1774 CE

#3357

Traité des maladies chirurgicales et des opérations qui leur conviennent. 3 vols.

Records (Vol, 1, pp. 153, 160) the first successful operation for mastoiditis, performed by Petit in 1736. “Petit’s hernia” and “triangle” described (vol. 2, pp. 256-58). (See also No. 33…

1891 CE

#3500

Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode der Verdauungsorgane und einige Resultate derselben.

Sahli’s test for estimating the functional activity of the stomach.

1892 CE

#3501

Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.

Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.

1892 CE

#3502

Om extra-abdominal Behandlung af cancer intestinalis (rectum derfra undtaget) med en Fremstilling af de for denne Sygdom foretagne Operationer og deres Resultater.

Bloch was first to employ the two-stage (Mikulicz) operation for cancer of the colon. See also No. 3527.

1892 CE

#3503

On achylia gastrica.

Einhorn introduced the concept of achylia gastrica, to indicate a primary nervous functional disorder of the gastric secretion.

1892 CE

#3504

De la gastro-duodénostomie.

Introduction of gastroduodenostomy.

1892 CE

#3505

Ein Fall von einem frei in die Bauchhöhle perforirten Magengeschwür; Laparotomie; Naht der Perforationsstelle; Heilung.

In 1892 Ludwig Heusner (1846-1916) successfully sutured a perforated gastric ulcer, the first successful case on record. It was reported by H. Kriege.

1892 CE

#3506

Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.

First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.

1892 CE

#3507

Cholecysto-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, entero-intestinal anastomosis, and approximation without sutures.

“Murphy’s button” introduced.

1893 CE

#3508

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.

See No. 3512.

1893 CE

#3509

De la gastrostomie par la méthode de la valvule ou du plissement de la muqueuse stomacale.

Pénières of Toulouse conceived the idea of the valvular method of gastrostomy.

1893 CE

#3510

On diseases of the duodenum.

A careful examination of the records of post mortems carried out at Guy’s Hospital, 1826-92, was made by Perry and Shaw, who showed that of 70 reports of duodenal ulcer, ten occurred in cases of severe burns.

1893 CE

#3511

Enterorrhaphy; its history, technique and present status.

Senn, Professor of Surgery at Chicago, was one of the first to investigate experimentally the subject of gastro-intestinal anastomosis.

1893 CE

#3512

Über die Anlegung einer röhrenformigen Magenfistel bei Verengerungen der Speiseröhre.

Ssabanejew and Frank independently developed a new method of gastrostomy, the Ssabanejew-Frank operation. The above is an abstract of the original, which appeared in Khirurgitscheski Vestnik, June 1893.

1894 CE

#3513

Eine Methode zur titrimetrischen Bestimmung der hauptsächlichsten Factoren der Magenacidität.

Toepfer’s test for hydrochloric acid in gastric juice.

1895 CE

#3514

Modified incision for removal of the vermiform appendix.

“Battle’s incision”.

1895 CE

#3515

Colectomy.

Paul’s operation of extra-abdominal resection of the colon.

1896 CE

#3516

Zur Anwendung des Röntgenschen Verfahrens in der Medicin.

Becher introduced a solution of lead into the stomach of a guinea-pig, making it opaque to x rays; he thus showed the possibility of radiological diagnosis of gastric disease.

1897 CE–1899 CE

#3517

Ueber Ernährung und Verdauung nach vollständiger Entfernung des Magens, Oesophagoenterostomie, beim Menschen.

First successful total gastrectomy.

1897 CE–1898 CE

#3518

First removal of the stomach in America.

Operation performed by Baldy in 1893. He refers to a claim in J. Amer. med. Ass., 1898, 30, 341-44 giving credit for the first excision of the stomach in America to A. C. Bernays (1854-1907). While Baldy probably dese…

1899 CE

#3520

Ueber multiple falsche Darmdivertikel in der Flexura sigmoidea.

A false diverticulum of the sigmoid flexure, described by Graser, has been given the eponym “Graser’s diverticulum”.

1900 CE–1901 CE

#3521

Ueber Magenspiegelung.

Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.

1900 CE

#3522

Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.

Mayo’s operation of partial gastrectomy. Mayo was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.

1901 CE

#3523

Nouveau procédé pour la gastrostomie.

Depage used a tube formed from the anterior wall of the stomach, lined with mucous membrane, in his gastrostomy operation.

1901 CE

#3524

Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.

1902 CE

#3525

A new use for the useless appendix, in the surgical treatment of obstinate colitis.

Weir’s appendicostomy operation.

1903 CE

#3526

Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.

Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.

1903 CE

#3527

Chirurgische Erfahrungen über das Darmcarcinom.

Development of Bloch’s two-stage Operation for resection of tumors of the rectum. English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 210-29.

1908 CE

#3528

On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.

“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).

1908 CE

#3529

Beitrag zur Magenchirurgie.

Report of Hofmeister’s modification of the Billroth II gastro-enterostomy.

1909 CE

#3530

Essais de traitement de quelques cas d’épithélioma de l’oesophage par les applications locales directes de radium.

Radium therapy by means of the esophagoscope.

1909 CE

#3531

The operative treatment of chronic constipation.

Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.

1910 CE

#3532

A method of anastomosis between sigmoid and rectum.

Balfour’s operation for resection of the sigmoid colon.

1910 CE

#3533

Zur röntgenologischen Diagnose der Ulzerationen in der Pars media des Magens.

First demonstration of the characteristic niche in gastric ulcer.

1910 CE

#3534

Removal of the rectum for cancer: statistical report of 120 cases.

Mayo’s radical operation for carcinoma of the rectum.

1910 CE

#3535

Duodenal ulcer.

Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence, pain-food-ease, and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he establ…

1911 CE

#3536

Ein operativ geheilter Fall von kongenitaler Dünndarmatresie.

Treatment of congenital atresia of ileum by lateral anastomosis.

1911 CE

#3537

Zur Stumpversorgung nach Magenresektion.

Pólya’s modification of the Billroth II operation. Pólya is believed to have been murdered by a Nazi group during the siege of Budapest by the Russians in December, 1944, although his body was neve…

1913 CE

#3538

The cause and treatment of certain unfavourable after-effects of gastroenterostomy.

First description of the “dumping syndrome”, so named by C. L. Mix, Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1922, 2, 617-22. (During WWI Hertz changed his name to Hurst; see No. 8604.)

1912 CE

#3539

Zur Operation der angeborenen Pylorusstenose.

The first pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis, incising the pyloric muscle while leaving the mucosa intact and leaving the muscle to heal: “Rammstedt’s operation.” In 1920 Rammstedt discovered that th…

1913 CE

#3540

The first successful case of resection of the thoracic portion of the oesophagus for carcinoma.

See also Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1925, 10, 353-60, which reported that the patient was still living.

1915 CE

#3541

Gastric and duodenal ulcer; medical cure by an efficient removal of gastric juice corrosion.

“Sippy diet” for the treatment of peptic ulcer.

1918 CE

#3542

Dysentery bacilli: the differentiation of the true dysentery bacilli from allied species.

Shigella alkalescens described.

1918 CE

#3543

Ausgedehnte Magenresektion bei Ulcus duodeni statt der einfachen Duodenalresektion bzw.

Hofmeister-Finsterer gastro-enterostomy (see No. 3529).

1921 CE

#3544

Studies in gastric secretion. Introduction.

Ryle’s tube, for obtaining specimens of gastric juice.

1922 CE

#3545

Probleme und Technik der Gastroskopie, mit der Beschreibung eines neuen Gastroskops.

Schindler made gastroscopy a “method”. See also his paper in the Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 535-37.

1928 CE

#3546

Die Entzündungen des Magens. In: F. Henke & O. Lubarsch: Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie, 4, Heft 2, 768-1116.

Konjetzny suggested that peptic ulceration is the sequel to a specific form of gastritis.

1929 CE

#3547

Gastric and duodenal ulcer.

1929 CE

#3548

Ueber Gastrophotographie.

Introduction of gastrophotography.