Entry Nos. 5700–5799

1862 CE

#5748

Die Uranoplastik mittelst Ablösung es mucös-periostalen Gaumenüberzuges.

Langenbeck has several operations named after him, one of the most important being that for cleft palate. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.

1868 CE

#5749

Mittheilungen aus der chirurgischen Klinik des Rostocker Krankenhauses während der Jahre 1861-65. I. Abtheilung: Summarische Berichte. Chirurgische Mittheilungen mit Beschreibung interessanter Krankheitsfälle. (Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Deutschen Klinik' vom Jahre 1866 und 1867.) II. Abtheilung. Beiträge zur plastischen Chirurgie, vorzugsweise zu den plastischen Operationen an den Wandungen der zugängigen Körperhölen. Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Prager Viertelhahrschrift für prakt. Heilkunde' vom J. 1866 u. 1867.

Subtitle of II Abtheilung: ..."zugängigen Körperhöhlen: des Mundes, der Scheide und des Mastdarmes verbunden mit einem Berichte über meine plastischen Operationen von Ostern 1861 - Ostern 1866." Si…

1870 CE

#5750

Greffe épidermique. Expérience faite dans le service de M. le docteur Guyon à l’hôpital Necker.

Reverdin’s work on the transplantation of free skin, as contrasted with the previous method of pedunculated flaps, attracted much attention. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1871 CE

#5751

On the transplantation of portions of skin for the closure of large granulating surfaces.

Lawson, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, London, was the first successfully to transplant sizeable areas of skin, as compared with the small grafts of Reverdin, and of whole thickness skin as well. Reprinted in No. …

1872 CE

#5752

Greffes cutanées ou autoplastiques.

First description of intermediate thickness skin grafts. Ollier used large grafts and carried out complete excision of scar tissue and its replacement with skin.

1874 CE

#5753

Ueber die feineren anatomischen Veränderungen bei Aufheilung von Haut auf Granulationen.

Thiersch’s first paper on transplantation of skin. Simultaneous publication in Arch. klin. Chir., 1874, 17, 318-24. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1875 CE

#5754

A new method of performing plastic operations.

Wolfe insisted that in free skin grafts the subcutaneous tissue at the site of the graft must be removed, and that the graft should consist of skin only. His name is perpetuated in the “Wolfe-Krause graft rest&r…

1893 CE

#5755

Ueber die Transplantation grosser ungestielter Hautlappen.

Krause popularized the use of whole thickness skin grafts. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1902 CE

#5756

De l’ablation esthétique des tumeurs bénignes du sein.

Morestin’s method of mammaplasty. He was also responsible for several of the techniques employed in maxillo-facial surgery. Reprinted, Pittsburgh, 1959

1915 CE

#5757

Bone-graft surgery.

Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make inlaid, perfectly-fitting grafts. See especially his “Transplantation of a portion of the tibia int…

1920 CE

#5758

Plastic surgery of the face.

Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.

1921 CE

#5759

A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.

Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.

1923 CE

#5760

Die Operation der atrophischen und hypertrophischen Hängebrust.

Plastic operation for enlarged breasts.

1928 CE

#5761

Cleft palate.

Wardill’s operation for cleft palate.

1930 CE

#5762

Mirault operation for single harelip.

Modern refinement of Mirault’s precedure for repair of cleft lip.

1931 CE

#5763

Division palatine.

Includes Veau’s operation for cleft palate.

1943 CE

#5765

Skin grafting. A new method based on the principles of tissue culture.

First use of fibrin glue for skin grafting. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1943, 77, 510-13.

1942 CE

#5766

Plastic surgery of the breast and abdominal wall.

1863 CE

#5767

Die Literatur and Geschichte der plastichen Chirurgie.

A history of plastic surgery and an annotated bibliography of its literature prior to 1860. Nachträge, 1864. Reprint, including Nachträge, Bologna, 1963. The main bibliography has 2008 references, the supple…

1933 CE

#5768

The operative story of cleft palate.

1829 CE

#5769

Illustrations of the diseases of the breast.

Includes one of the earliest descriptions of hyperplastic cystic disease of the breast, which Cooper referred to as “hydatid disease”.

1840 CE

#5770

Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.

“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54.

1854 CE

#5771

Traité des maladies du sein et de la région mammaire.

Velpeau was the leading French surgeon of the first half of the 19th century. His treatise on tumors of the breast, his best work, was the most important of its time on the subject. It includes a good account of hyper…

1874 CE

#5772

On disease of the mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland.

First description of “Paget’s disease of the nipple” –eczema of the nipple with cancer. The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 75-78. Paget was Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, an…

1880 CE

#5773

Die Krankheiten der Brustdrüsen.

A monograph on cancer and other diseases of the breast, including a discussion of cancer in the male breast in the final chapter. This work is also significant in the history of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dig…

1883 CE

#5774

La maladie kystique des mamelles.

“Reclus’s disease”. Reclus was professor of surgery in Paris; he left a classic description of chronic cystic mastitis.

1892 CE

#5775

Das Cystadenom der Mamma.

“Schimmelbusch’s disease”.

1890 CE–1891 CE

#5776

The treatment of wounds with especial reference to the value of the blood clot in the management of dead spaces.

Halsted showed that optimum wound healing was most easily obtained by avoiding hematoma formation. Contains description of Halsted’s method of radical mastectomy – one of the greatest contributions ever ma…

1898 CE

#5778

A clinical and histological study of certain adenocarcinomata of the breast, and a brief consideration of the supraclavicular operations for cancer of the breast from 1889 to 1898 at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

1901 CE

#5779

The treatment of cancer of the breast by öophorectomy and thyroid extract.

1906 CE

#5780

Senile parenchymatous hypertrophy of female breast.

Bloodgood’s theory of the causation of chronic mastitis.

1908 CE

#5781

Les tumeurs du sein.

1922 CE

#5782

Cancer of the breast and its treatment. 2nd ed.

Sampson Handley advanced the theory that in mammary cancer metastasis is due to extension along lymphatic vessels – “lymphatic permeation” – and not to dissemination byway of the blood stream. …

1928 CE

#5783

Mammectomie totale et autogreffe libre aréolomamelonnaire; mammectomie bilatérale esthétique.

The modern operation of total bilateral mammectomy, with transplantation of the nipple and areola, was especially developed by Dartigues.

1931 CE

#5784

Tumours of the breast. Their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

1931 CE

#5785

The cause of “painful breasts” and treatment by means of ovarian residue.

Cutler was the first to employ ovarian hormone systematically in the treatment of chronic mastitis.

1932 CE

#5786

The radium treatment of carcinoma of the breast.

Keynes’s successes with radium in breast cancer established this method of conservative treatment. His first paper on the subject, with the same title, was published in St. Barth. Hosp. Rep., 1927, 60, 91-95.

1933 CE

#5788

Plasma cell mastitis–a lesion simulating mammary carcinoma.

First description of plasma-cell mastitis.

1774 CE–1775 CE

#5789

Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols

Reprinted, Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1971.

1840 CE

#5790

Histoire de la chirurgie en Occident depuis de VIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, et histoire de la vie et des travaux d’Ambroise Parè.

Billings considered Malgaigne “the greatest surgical historian and critic the world has ever seen”; Leonardo (No. 5812) says that his greatest contribution to surgery was his unique manner of evaluating su…

1859 CE

#5791

Geschichte der Chirurgie von den Urzeiten bis zu Anfang des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.

1866 CE

#5792

De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.

Trendelenburg’s graduation thesis on the ancient Hindu systems of medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1867 CE

#5793

Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century.

1876 CE

#5794

Chirurgie vor 100 Jahren; historische Studie.

Reprinted Berlin, Springer, 1978.

1876 CE

#5795

A century of American surgery.

The first serious history of American surgery to 1876. Also published in No. 6586.

1883 CE–1885 CE

#5796

Die chirurgischen Klassiker Deutschlands. 2 vols.

1886 CE

#5797

Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.

South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Dig…

1890 CE

#5798

The annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London, compiled from their records and other sources

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1895 CE

#5799

The history and literature of surgery. IN: System of surgery, edited by Frederic S. Dennis, assisted by John S. Billings. 1, 17-144.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.