Facets

1781 CE

#4305.1

Dissertation sur la meilleure forme des souliers.

Classic discussion of childhood shoe-induced deformities. There was also an edition in Dutch published the same year. Digital facsimile of the edition in French from the Internet Archive at this link. English translat…

1779 CE

#4303

Dissertation sur les effets du mouvement et du repos dans les maladies chirurgicales.

Includes a description of Pott’s disease, with post-mortem findings, better than Pott’s own account. This is an important early work on the effect of movement and of rest in the treatment of joint conditio…

1928 CE

#4395

Dissociation of bone growth. (Exostoses and enchondromata, of Ollier’s dyschondroplasia and associated phenomena.) In The Robert Jones Birthday Volume

Jansen’s theory of dissociation of bone growth.

1973 CE

#5766.3

Distant transfer of an island flap by microvascular anastomoses. A clinical technique.

Successful direct flap transfer by vascular anastomosis. See also Austr. N. Z. J. Surg., 1973, 43, 1-3.

1732 CE

#3418

Diverses observations anatomiques.

Littré was first to suggest colostomy in intestinal obstruction – “Littré’s operation”.

1931 CE

#5763

Division palatine.

Includes Veau’s operation for cleft palate.

1564 CE

#3668.1

Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.

Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in a…

1865 CE

#6053

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

1877 CE

#5614

Du cautére Paquelin.

Paquelin introduced a thermocautery (“Paquelin’s cautery”).

1860 CE

#1864

Du coaltar saponiné, désinfectant énergique, arrètant les fermentations, de ses applications a l'hygiène, la thérapeutique, a l'histoire naturelle.

Lemaire was first to point out the antiseptic properties of carbolic acid. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1903 CE

#13019

Du masque opératoire. Thèse presentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine du Montpellier....

The medical thesis on medical and surgical masks by a woman medical student at Montpellier, who, as indicated on the title page, was born in Witebsk, Russia in 1876. She was also characterized as "Mlle." The thesis in…

1912 CE

#4385

Dysostose cranio-faciale héréditaire.

First description of cranio-facial dysostosis, hypertelorism (Crouzon's syndrome).

1921 CE

#10823

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

1872 CE

#9699

Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.

Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…

1963 CE

#6941

Effect of the laser beam on the skin.

One of the first papers on the application of lasers in medicine. In 1961 Goldman became the first researcher to use a laser to treat a human skin disease when he treated melanoma. The method later became popular in r…

1945 CE

#1929.1

Effectiveness of a nitrofuran in the treatment of infected wounds.

First clinical use of “furacin” (nitrofuran). With C. L. Kiehn and J. W. Christopherson.

1849 CE

#14327

Effects of chloroform and of strong chloric ether, as narcotic agents.

“On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Warren participated in the first public demonstration of anesthesia for surgery. He was the surgeon for the first surgical patient given ether anesthesia,…

1891 CE

#2908.1

Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Gefässnaht.

Jassinowsky experimented with arterial sutures on animals. His thesis, Die Arteriennaht: Eine experimentell-chirurgische Studie, Dorpat, 1889, was an experimental-surgical study of the subject.

1924 CE

#3016

Ein durch die Trendelenburgsche Operation geheilter Fall von Embolie der Art. pulmonalis.

First successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism, a procedure suggested by Trendelenburg in 1908 (see No. 3012).

1913 CE

#3014

Ein Fall operierter Embolie der Arteria femoralis.

Key performed his first successful embolectomy on December 4, 1912, and reported it to a meeting of the Svenska Läkaresällskapet on January 28, 1913. See also his review in Ergebn. Chir. Orthop.,1929, 22,1-94.

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.

1882 CE

#3627

Ein Fall von Exstirpation der Gallenblase wegen chronischer Cholelithiasis; Heilung.

First successful removal of the gallbladder.

1929 CE

#4395.1

Ein Fall von Osteopathia hyperostotica (sclerotisans) multiplex infantilis.

“Engelmann’s disease”, also known as "Camurati-Engelmann disease" — a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that causes characteristic anomalies in the skeleton. It is a form of dysplas…

1879 CE

#4346.1

Ein Fall von sogenannter Myositis ossificans progressiver.

Helferich described the association of microdactyly with myositis ossificans progressiva.

1911 CE

#3536

Ein operativ geheilter Fall von kongenitaler Dünndarmatresie.

Treatment of congenital atresia of ileum by lateral anastomosis.

1888 CE

#5619.1

Eine einfache Methode zurErzielung sicherer Asepsis.

Kocher introduced silk sutures.

1906 CE

#5950.1

Eine erfolgreiche totale Keratoplastik.

First successful corneal transplantation (keratoplasty).

1872 CE

#12419

Eine Methode Aus Der Einen Lippe Substanzverluste Der Anderen zu Ersetzen.

The Abbe-Estlander operation, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip.

1907 CE

#4431

Eine neue Extensionsmethode in der Frakturenbehandlung.

Steinmann nail or pin, for insertion through a distal fragment and controlled by direct skeletal traction. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics.

1878 CE

#6070

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

1893 CE

#3508

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.

See No. 3512.

1929 CE

#3549

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie.

Introduction of tubo-valvular gastrostomy.

1888 CE

#5933

Eine neue Methode der Hornhauttransplantation.

Modern keratoplasty is based on the technique introduced by von Hippel.

1937 CE

#4908

Eine neue Operationsmethode bei Trigeminusneuralgie: Durchschneidung des Tractus spinalis trigemini.

Trigeminal tractotomy. See also Acta psychiat. neural. (Kbh.), 1938, Suppl. 17, 1-139.

1917 CE

#4476

Eine neue osteoplastische Amputationsmethode des Oberschenkels.

1870 CE

#4425

Eine neue Reductionsmethode für Schulterverrenkung.

Kocher was Professor of Surgery at Berne, and among the greatest surgeons of his day. He is remembered, among other things, for his method of reduction of subluxation of the shoulder-joint.

1929 CE

#5710

Eine psycheschonende und steuerbare Form der Allgemeinbetäubung.

Intravenous use of “avertin”.

1915 CE

#4386.1

Eine seltene, bisher nicht bekannte Strukturanomalie des Skelettes.

First definitive description of osteopoikilosis.

1920 CE

#4387

Eine typische Erkrankung des 2. Metatarsophalangealgelenkes.

“Köhler’s second disease” – juvenile deforming metatarsophalangeal Osteochondritis. English translation in Amer. J. Roentgenol., 1923, 10,705-10. Also known as “Freiberg’s infr…

1959 CE

#14227

Einführung in die stereotaktischen Operationen mit einem Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns. Introduction to stereotaxis with an atlas of the human brain. Large folio text plus 2 large folio binders of plates with captions.

1882 CE

#4347

Einige Fälle von kunstlicher Ankylosenbildung an paralytischen Gliedmassen.

Albert introduced the concept of joint arthrodesis into orthopedic surgery. This is the first description of arthrodesis of an ankle for paralytic foot. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 52-54.

1938 CE

#4435.1

El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.

During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…

1928 CE

#4897.1

Electro-surgery as an aid to the removal of intracranial tumors. With a preliminary note on a new surgical-current generator by W.T. Bovie.

Introduction of electrocoagulation in neurosurgery.

1844 CE–1859 CE

#5597

Elémens de pathologie chirurgicale. 5 vols.

Nélaton was a great teacher and operator at the Hôpital St. Louis. He invented several surgical instruments. The description of “Nélaton’s tumor” of bone appears in vol.. 2, p. 46…

1813 CE

#5585.1

Elements of surgery; for the use of students. 2 vols.

The first systematic treatise on surgery written by an American. The work is notable for containing not only Dorsey’s original contributions, but for its publication of the work of Dorsey’s uncle and teach…

1854 CE

#5747

Elkoplasty, or anaplasty applied to the treatment of old ulcers.

Hamilton was among the first to treat ulcers by skin-grafting. He made the flap smaller than the space which it was intended to fill, “trusting to growth and expansion of the graft to complete the cure”. A…

1911 CE

#3013

Embolie fémorale au cours d’un rétrécissement mitral pur. Arteriotomie. Guérison.

First successful embolectomy; operation carried out by G. Labey, November 16, 1911.

1917 CE

#3194

Endothelioma of the right bronchus removed by peroral bronchoscopy.

First reported case.

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.

1891 CE

#7243

Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic].

In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a st…