Entry Nos. 4800–4899

1930 CE

#4850

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.

At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…

1768 CE

#4851

Opuscules de chirurgie. Pt. 1.

Records, p. 161, a successful operation for temporo-sphenoidal abscess, 1752. The patient, a monk, had otorrhoea followed by a mastoid abscess, which Morand opened.

1844 CE–1845 CE

#4852

Exstirpation of the os coccygis for neuralgia.

1850 CE

#4853

Abscess in the substance of the brain; the lateral ventricles opened by an operation.

Lateral ventricles of the brain first opened for the treatment of cerebral abscess.

1858 CE

#4854

Exsection of the trunk of the second branch of the fifth pair of nerves, beyond the ganglion of Meckel, for severe neuralgia of the face; with three cases.

First excision of the superior maxillary nerve for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

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.

1879 CE

#4856

Tumour of the dura mater–convulsions–removal of tumour by trephining–recovery.

1884 CE

#4857

Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.

Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1885 CE

#4858

Case of cerebral tumour.

First instance of diagnosis, accurate clinical localization, and operative removal of a tumor of the brain, 25 November, 1884. The patient survived for one month. Preliminary report in Lancet, 1884, 2, 1090-91.

1887 CE

#4859

Die chirurgische Behandlung von Hirnkrankheiten.

Bergmann was the first in Germany to undertake an intensive study of the surgical aspects of brain diseases. From his experience as a military surgeon he learned that increased intracranial pressure was a consequence …

1888 CE

#4860

A case of tumour of the spinal cord. Removal; recovery.

Horsley was the founder of neurosurgery in England. The above paper records the first successful operation for the removal of an extramedullary tumor of the spinal cord.

1889 CE

#4861

The treatment of epilepsy.

Alexander was the first to attempt the treatment of epilepsy by surgical means. He removed the superior cervical sympathetic ganglia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1889 CE

#4862

Die temporäre Resektion der Schädeldaches an Stelle der Trepanation.

Osteoplastic flap operation. Wagner’s method of opening the skull made a large area of the brain more easily accessible than by trephining. Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1962, 19, 1099.

1890 CE

#4863

Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.

Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.

1891 CE

#4864

Ueber Rindenexcisionen, als Beitrag zur operativen Therapie der Psychosen.

Burckhardt, physician at a Swiss mental hospital, performed frontal lobotomy on four patients in 1890, with good results in some cases. Digital facsimile from Universitätsbibliothek Bern at this link.

1891 CE

#4865

Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).

Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.

1891 CE

#4866

Linear craniotomy (miscalled craniectomy) for microcephalus.

Keen was a pioneer in linear craniotomy and one of the first successfully to operate for meningioma. He was Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College.

1891 CE

#4867

A new operation for spasmodic wry neck, namely, division or exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head.

Spastic torticollis treated by division of spinal accessory nerve and posterior roots of first, second, and third spinal nerves.

1891 CE

#4868

Four cases of tubercular meningitis in which paracentesis of the theca vertebralis was performed for the relief of fluid pressure.

Lumbar puncture. Reprinted in Middx. Hosp. J., 1951, 51, 147.

1891 CE

#4869

Die Lumbalpunction des Hydrocephalus.

Quincke popularized lumbar puncture, which he had introduced independently of Wynter and others. He used it both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He first presented his method at the German Congress of Interna…

1892 CE

#4870

Intracranial neurectomy of the second and third divisions of the fifth nerve.

Hartley originated the operation of intracranial neurectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1892 CE

#4871

Resection des Trigeminus innerhalb der Schädelhöhle.

Hartley–Krause operation for relief of trigeminal neuralgia (see also No. 4870).

1893 CE

#4872

Pyogenic infective diseases of the brain and spinal cord.

Macewen’s greatest work was in connection with the surgery of the brain. In the above book he included extensive case reports of 65 patients under his care, with details of operative procedures. A biography of M…

1895 CE

#4873

Zur klinischen Bedeutung der spinalen Punction.

Fürbringer demonstrated the diagnostic value of spinal puncture.

1898 CE

#4874

Zur Technik der temporären Schädelresektion mit meiner Drahtsäge.

Gigli’s saw adapted for craniotomy. Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1962, 19, 1103.

1900 CE

#4875

A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.

1901 CE

#4876

The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.

Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.

1903 CE

#4877

Névralgie faciale; présentation de malade.

Alcohol injection of the Gasserian ganglion for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. See also pp. 91-96 of the same volume. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1905 CE

#4878

Concerning surgical intervention for the intracranial hemorrhages of the new-born.

Successful operative intervention in intracranial hemorrhage of the new-born.

1905 CE

#4879

The establishment of cerebral hernia as a decompressive measure for inaccessible brain tumors.

1908 CE

#4880

Ueber eine neue operative Methode der Behandlung spastischer Lähmungen mittels Resektion hinterer Rückenmarkswurzeln.

Foerster’s operation of rhizotomy for spastic paralysis.

1909 CE

#4881

Ueber operative Behandlung gastrischer Krisen durch Resektion der 7-10. hinteren Dorsalwurzel.

Foerster’s operation for tabes.

1909 CE

#4882

The Linacre lecture on the function of the so-called motor area of the brain.

Horsley demonstrated that removal of the precentral area in man abolished athetosis.

1912 CE

#4883

The treatment of persistent pain of organic origin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord.

Cordotomy for the relief of intractable pain.

1913 CE

#4884

Air in the ventricles of the brain, following a fracture of the skull.

Luckett’s finding of air in the ventricles gave Dandy (No. 4602) the idea for ventriculography.

1916 CE

#4885

De la causalgie envisagée comme une névrite du sympathique et de son traitement par la dénudation et l’excision des plexus nerveux périartériels.

Periarterial sympathectomy.

1916 CE

#4886

The wire gauze brain drain.

Mosher initiated the modern method of trephining and draining inflammatory processes of the brain.

1916 CE

#4887

Les blessures des nerfs.

A study of the effect of gunshot wounds on nerves. English translation, London, 1917.

1918 CE

#4888

Extirpation of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles in communicating hydrocephalus.

1918 CE

#4889

Tic douloureux and its treatment, with a review of the cases operated upon at the University Hospital in 1917.

Trigeminal nerve resection with conservation of the motor root, for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

1920 CE

#4890

Puncture of the cistema magna.

Introduction of cisternal puncture.

1920 CE

#4891

La meccanica del cervello e la funzione dei lobi frontale.

Bianchi showed that bilateral destruction of the frontal lobes caused character changes, a finding put to practical use by Egas Moniz and others. English translation, Edinburgh, 1922.

1920 CE

#4892

Algievélo-pharyngée essentielle. Traitement chirurgical.

Idiopathic glossopharyngeal neuralgia described and treated.

1924 CE

#4893

The influence of the sympathetic nervous system in the genesis of the rigidity of striated muscle in a spastic paralysis.

Hunter believed in the sympathetic innervation of skeletal muscle and on this assumption devised the technique of sympathetic ramisection carried out by Royle (No. 4894). Biography by M.J. Blunt, Sydney, 1985.

1924 CE

#4894

A new operative procedure in the treatment of spastic paralysis and its experimental basis.

Sympathetic ramisection. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1924, 39, 701-20.

1925 CE

#4895

La sympathectomie hypogastrique a-t-elle sa place dans la thérapeutique gynécologique?

Presacral neurectomy.

1925 CE

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.

1926 CE

#4897

Die Operationstechnik der Hirntumoren (nach eigenen Erfahrungen).

Puusepp, an Estonian, was the first professor of neurosurgery; he was particularly notable for his method of removing cerebral tumors. The above journal was founded and edited by him, and vol. 16 (1935) is a Festschri…

1931 CE

#4898

Traitement des syndromes douloureux de la périphérie par 1’alcoolisation sub-arachnoïdienne des racines postérieures à leur émergence de la moelle épinière.

Subarachnoid injection of alcohol for the relief of pain.

1932 CE

#4899

The operative treatment of facial palsy by the introduction of nerve grafts into the Fallopian canal and by other intratemporal methods.

A classic paper which includes some history of the surgical treatment of facial palsy.