Facets

1940 CE

#2260

Envelope method of treating burns.

Bunyan bag.

1941 CE

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1954 CE

#4914.2

Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the human brain.

This comprehensive monograph on the mechanism and surgical treatment of epileptic seizures remains Penfield’s most substantial scientific work. See also No. 4910.1.

1889 CE

#2621

Erfolgreiche experimentelle Uebertragung von Carcinom.

Hanau successfully transplanted cancer in mammals.

1931 CE

#2990

Erfolgreiche operative Beseitigung eines Aneurysma der rechten Herzkammer.

First successful surgical intervention in cardiac aneurysm.

1887 CE

#3296

Erste Heilung eines Larynx-Cancroids vermittelst Ausrottung per vias naturales.

First successful intralaryngeal extirpation of a malignant growth.

1936 CE

#4905

Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.

Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originall…

1854 CE

#4418.1

Essay on a new method of treating ununited fractures and certain deformities of the osseous system.

Experimenting on animals and cadavers, Brainard developed a special bone drill or “perforator” introduced subcutaneously to perforate the bone ends, simulating a recent fracture, and thus stimulating callu…

1919 CE

#3403.1

Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 vols.

Finely illustrated, and beautifully produced, with several historical chapters. Includes a history of the development of temporal bone surgery.

1940 CE

#7727

Esser inlay (Epithethelial inlay).

Though he developed the "skin graft inlay technique" or epithelial inlay during World War I, Esser did not fully publish it until this very extensively illustrated monograph, with about 1500 images, issued in 1940.

1848 CE

#5730

Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers and discovery.

Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery (No. 5651), and his subsequent advocacy of ether as an anesthetic assured its adoption throughout the civilized world. The above work deals with the prior…

1848 CE

#11727

Etherization: With surgical remarks.

Warren performed the first surgical operation under anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. This work presents his experience with anesthesia in the year following. Digital facsimile from U.S…

1914 CE

#3029

Etude expérimentelle sur la chirurgie des valvules du coeur.

Tuffier carried out the first successful experimental operation for the relief of chronic valvular disease. He also operated successfully in a case of aortic stenosis.

1878 CE

#7706

Etude historique et clinique sur la trépanation du crâne; la trépanation guidée par les localisations cérébrales.

Lucas-Chamionnière asserted that the operation was performed by ancient surgeons for both magical and therepeutic reasons, and noted that ancient surgeons prevented lethal hemorrhage from the sagittal sinus by …

1915 CE

#6218

Eutocia by means of nitrous oxide gas analgesia; a safe substitute for the Freiburg method.

1932 CE

#5714

Evipan, ein neuartiges Einschlafmittel.

Introduction of evipan (hexobarbitone).

1949 CE

#4435.2

Evolution of medullary fixation of fractures by the longitudinal pin.

“Rush pins”, made of specially hardened type 316 stainless steel, for fractures of the long bones.

1842 CE–1843 CE

#4323.1

Excision of a portion of the scapula.

First description of operation for partial excision of scapula.

1838 CE

#4458

Excision of the head of the femur for disease of the hip-joint. IN: S. COOPER: A dictionary of practical surgery. 7th ed., pp. 272-73

White was the first to perform this operation, April 1821.

1890 CE

#4352

Exostoses multiples.

“Ollier’s disease”. He described a form of dyschondroplasia.

1889 CE

#3570

Experience with early operative interference in cases of disease of the vermiform appendix.

Describes (p. 678) “McBurney’s point”: “The seat of greatest pain, determined by the pressure of one finger, has been very exactly between an inch and a half and two inches from the anterior sp…

1847 CE

#12870

Experiences relatives aux effets de l'inhalation de l'ether sulfurique sur le systême nerveux. (Mémoire lu à l'Académie Royale de Medicine)

The first scientific analysis of the effects of ether anesthesis. Though ether anesthesia was invented in America, its inventors and early users were either scientifically untrained like Morton, or men of practical sc…

1959 CE

#4405.02

Experiences with a finger-joint prosthesis.

First prosthetic device for replacement of destroyed finger-joints.

1955 CE

#4256.3

Experiences with renal homotransplantation in the human. Report of nine cases.

With Benjamin F. Miller. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1931 CE

#11188

Experiences with the cerebellar astrocytomas. A critical review of seventy-six cases.

Cushing's most extensive contribution to pediatric neurosurgery concerned his operative experience with these tumors (often benign) that most frequently occur in childhood.

1908 CE

#10591

Experimental and clinical notes on chronic valvular lesions in the dog and their possible relation to a future surgery of cardiac valves.

Cushing and Branch's work was a key step in the early development of surgery of the mitral valves, later realized by Cushing's students Elliot Carr Cutler and Claude Beck in 1924. "Experiments on canine heart valves w…

1930 CE

#5630.3

Experimental shock. The cause of the low blood pressure produced by muscle injury.

Blalock “demonstrated that surgical shock is not due to the elaboration of toxins nor to reflex neurologic mechanisms, but … to decrease in circulating the blood volume” (M.M. Ravitch). He wrote man…

1910 CE

#3028.01

Experimental surgery of the aorta and heart.

Carrel attempted the direct placement of a bypass vessel in a dog.

1889 CE

#5620

Experimental surgery.

Senn made important experimental studies on air embolism, introduced a method of diagnosing intestinal perforation by means of insufflation of hydrogen (see No. 3494), and used X-rays in the treatment of leukemia. He …

1862 CE

#3008

Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der Embolie.

Experimental study of the effects of ligation of coronary vessels.

1902 CE

#4229.1

Experimentelle Nierentransplantation. Vorlaüfige Mittheilung.

Successful autotransplantation of kidneys in dogs.

1911 CE

#5696

Experimentelle Studien über den Einfluss technisch und hygienisch wichtiger Gase und Dämpfe auf den Organismus. Die gechlorten Kohlenwasserstoffe der Fettreihe.

Introduction of trichlorethylene (“trilene”).

1853 CE

#4463

Exsection of the clavicle.

J. H. Johnson (New Orleans med. surg. J., 1850, 6, 474-76) stated that McCreary performed the first resection of the clavicle in the United States on 4 May, 1811. Valentine Mott reported the operation in 1828. See No.…

1855 CE

#4331

Exsection of the head of the femur and removal of the upper rim of the acetabulum, for morbus coxarius, with perfect recovery.

Resection of the hip for ankylosis.

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.

1863 CE

#6052

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

1844 CE–1845 CE

#4852

Exstirpation of the os coccygis for neuralgia.

1824 CE

#3434

Extirpation de la parotide.

First excision of the parotid, 1823.

1918 CE

#4888

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

1823 CE

#3433.1

Extirpation of the parotid gland.

Although Béclard and possibly others may have extirpated the parotid before Davidge, this was the first published case.

1826 CE

#3436

Extracts from an account of a case in which a new and peculiar operation for artificial anus was performed.

Physick’s operation for artificial anus – colocutaneous fistula formed as a result of mortification from a strangulated hernia.

1540 CE

#6959

Eyn new Wund Artznei M. Johans von Parisijs. Wie mann alle wunden, sie seien gestochen, gehawen, geschossen mit pfeil oder lot gequetzt vnd gestossen [et]c. mit salben, pflastern vnnd wundttranck, durch den gantzen leip dess menschens, vom Kopff an biss auff die füss, heylen solein kurtzer, ordenlicher Bericht M. Johan von Parisiis jtzunt am newsten auss gangen.

Johannes von Beris (or Paris) lived in the mid-15th century near Metz, and is thus the earliest identifiable German surgeon, and the first to write about gunshot wounds and wound surgery. His work, which was first pub…

2017 CE

#11086

Faces from the front: Harold Gillies, the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the origins of modern plastic surgery.

1913 CE

#3014.1

Fall von Embolus aortae abdominalis, Operation, Heilung.

First successful aortic embolectomy.

1896 CE

#3023

Fall von penetrirender Stichverletzung des rechten Ventrikel’s. Herznaht.

Rehn was the first successfully to suture a wound of the human heart.

1517 CE

#5560

Feldtbuch der wundartzney.

Gersdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Paré’s abandonment of boiling oil for the cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures of early surgical procedures and inclu…

1836 CE

#2957

Femoral aneurism successfully treated by a ligature of the external iliac artery.

Successful ligation of external iliac artery for femoral aneurysm, 1822.

1994 CE

#12335

Fifty years of cardiac and pulmonary surgery 1942-1993. The beginning of open heart surgery of postoperative intensive care. The first complete left heart catheterization. Mechanical heart valves.

Björk may be most remembered for the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.

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…

1938 CE

#4909

First surgical sections, in man, of the lemniscus lateralis (pain-temperature path) at the brain stem, for the treatment of diffused rebellious pain.