Facets

1917 CE

#1905

Flavine and brilliant green, powerful antiseptics with low toxicity to the tissues: their use in the treatment of infected wounds.

Introduction of acriflavine. With R. Gulbransen, E. L. Kennaway, and L. H. D. Thomton.

2008 CE

#10362

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

1965 CE

#5733.2

Foundations of anesthesiology. 2 vols.

An anthology of 150 papers on anesthesia and related topics, from the 16th century to 1961.

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.

1940 CE

#11654

Fractures and other bone and joint injuries.

Watson-Jones's textbook became known as "the bible." It was reprinted 15 times during the author's lifetime and translated into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. "Throughout its publication, Watson-Jones…

1882 CE

#4426

Fractures of the metacarpal bones.

“Bennett’s fracture” of the first metacarpal. He was Professor of Surgery at Trinity College, Dublin.

1963 CE

#4435.5

Fractures, dislocations and fracture-dislocations of the spine.

Holdsworth classification of spinal injuries.

1927 CE

#4406

Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.

1990 CE

#4483.6

Fractures: a history and iconography of their treatment.

2008 CE

#8908

From skulls to brains: 2500 years of neurosurgical progress.

An annotated exhibition catalogue of rare books on the history of neurological surgery from Eugene Flamm's library.

1953 CE

#4435.4

Fundamental aspects of fracture treatment. [In Japanese]

First electrically-induced osteogenesis. Yasuda demonstrated that small amounts of electric current applied to bone stimulated osteogenesis at the cathode. He was also the first to describe stress generated potentials…

1894 CE

#5682.1

Further observations on the use of oxygen with nitrous oxide.

Includes description of Hewitt’s nitrous oxide/oxygen stopcock.

1898 CE

#4429.2

Further observations regarding the use of the bone-clamp in ununited fractures, fractures with malunion, and recent fractures with a tendency to displacement.

Parkhill introduced external fixation for the treatment of fractures.

1929 CE–1930 CE

#4396

Further studies in osteomalacia.

Maxwell showed osteomalacia to be due to lack of vitamin D.

1881 CE

#3476

Gastro-Enterostomie.

Wölfler perfected the operation of gastro-enterostomy.

1875 CE

#3467

Gastrostomy for stricture (cancerous?) of oesophagus; death from bronchitis forty days after operation.

Successful human gastrostomy by the older (Sédillot’s) method. Reported by S. Osborne.

1906 CE

#6212

Geburten in künstlichem Dämmerschlaf.

“Twilight sleep”. Gauss developed the method introduced by Steinbüchel (No. 6210).

1936 CE

#4904.1

Gefässmissbildungen und Gefässgeschwülste des Gehirns.

Olivecrona first successfully removed an intracranial aneurysm in 1932.

1822 CE

#5740.1

Gelungener Versuch einer Nasenbildung aus einem völlig getrennten Hautstück aus dem Beine.

First well-documented full-thickness skin graft, used for a rhinoplasty on a patient whose nose and forehead had been destroyed by uncontrolled lupus. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1898 CE

#5800

Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung. Volkschirugie - Alterthum - Mittelalter - Renaissance. 3 vols.

A history of surgery to the end of the 16th century. Includes translations from the literature and illustrations of instruments. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1859 CE

#5791

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

1905 CE

#5804

Geschichte der Chirurgie. In. T. PUSCHMANN’S Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 3, 1-306.

1966 CE

#10501

Geschichte der Fusspflege: Pedicurie, Chiropodie, Podologie.

1961 CE

#4483.1

Geschichte der Orthopädie.

1964 CE

#8719

Give and take: The development of tissue transplantation.

1562 CE

#11404

Gli ornamenti delle donne: Tratti dalle scritture d'una reina greca per m. Giovanni Marinello et diuisi in quattro libri.

A comprehensive manual by a physician on female hygiene, beauty and adornment, containing hundreds of recommendations, advice on cosmetics, and more than two dozen recipes for dyes to bleach hair blond. Marinello reco…

1854 CE

#5551

Glossulae quatuor magistrorum super chirurgiam Rogerii et Rolandi nunc primum ad fidem codicis Mazarinei edidit

In Roger of Salerno's Practica chirurgiae, which appeared about 1180, end-to-end suture is described, as is the value of mercurial inunction in chronic skin diseases; in his recommendation of seaweed for the treatment…

1836 CE

#3441

Glückliche Heilung nach Ausscheidung eines Theiles des Darms und Netzes.

First account of a resection in which Lembert’s suture was successfully employed.

1754 CE

#12175

Graecorum chirurgici libri Sorani unus de fracturarum signis. Oribasii duo de fractis et de luxatis e collectione Nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino descripti conversi atque edited ab Antonio Cocchio.

A scholarly edition of the Nicetas Codex containing various texts on fractures and luxations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1961 CE

#5813.3

Great ideas in the history of surgery.

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.

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.

1536 CE

#5561

Grosse Wund Artzney von allen Wunden, Stich, Schüssz, Bränd, Bissz, Beynbrüch, und alles was die Wundartzney begreifft.

Paracelsus was a doctor, chemist, lecturer, and reformer. His novel doctrines gained him many followers. He expressed novel ideas for the treatment of wounds, disbelieving in the use of boiling oil for the purificatio…

1850 CE

#4326.1

Grosses Enchondrom (Gallertknorpel-Geschwulst) des Schulterblattes; Exstirpation des ganzen Schulterblattes mit Ausnahme des Processus coracoides am 6 Febr.; Tod am 7 Febr.

Complete excision of the scapula.

1842 CE–1843 CE

#2959

Gun-shot wound of the face and neck; ligature of the carotid artery.

First successful ligature of the carotid artery (for secondary haemorrhage) Oct. 18, 1807, eight months before Sir Astley Cooper (No. 2929). Published 35 years after the event, this paper may set some kind of record f…

1876 CE

#6360

Haemorrhagic periostitis of the shafts of several of the long bones, with separation of the epiphyses.

Craniohypophyseal xanthomatosis was first reported by Sir Thomas Smith (see also No. 6359). Hand in 1893 (No. 6361), Schüller in 1915 (No. 6362), and Christian in 1919 (No. 6363) also reported cases, and the cond…

1862 CE–1865 CE

#4422.1

Handbuch der Lehre von den Knochenbruchen. 2 vols.

Gurlt, the celebrated historian of surgery (see No. 5800), wrote an exhaustive and detailed review of the literature on fractures. As a source of obscure and arcane information it is unsurpassed. Digital facsimile fro…

1870 CE

#11702

Handbuch der operativen Chirurgie von Julius von Szymanowski. Deutsche Ausgabe von dem Verfasser und ... C.W. F. Uhde. Ester Theil (All Published.)

The author, who died of testicular cancer at the age of 39 two years before this posthumous publication, is one of the forgotten pioneers of plastic surgery. Many of the techniques described by later authors without c…

1838 CE

#5743.4

Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie. Nebst einer Vorrede von J.F. Dieffenbach.

In this work Zeis introduced the term “plastic surgery”. The first half of the work covers the general principles of plastic surgery, and the first history of the subject. The second half describes the spe…

1946 CE

#11018

Harvey Cushing: A biography.

Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.

2007 CE

#11030

Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery.

A less idolatrous biography of Cushing than Fulton's work of 1946.

1994 CE

#12375

Heart surgery classics. Edited by Larry W. Stephenson and Renato Ruggiero.

Reprints of classics with commentaries by Henry Bahnson, Earl Bakken, Denton Cooley, James Cox, Michael DeBakey, Alden Harken, Dudley Johnson, Adrian Kantrowitz, Willem Kolff, C. Walton Lillehei, and Albert Starr. Sev…

1964 CE

#3047.19

Heart transplantation in man: Developmental studies and report of a case.

Heart transplant from a chimpanzee into a man; unsuccessful. Hardy was expecting the donor heart to be obtained from a relatively young patient dying of brain damage, but the patient went into terminal myocardial fail…

1962 CE

#11602

Heart-lung bypass: Principles and techniques of extracorporeal circulation.

1982 CE

#10659

Heart-lung transplantation: Successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.

First successful heart-lung transplant, performed on March 9, 1981, after nearly four years of testing on primates. Abstract "We report our initial experience with three patients who received heart-lung transplants. T…

1668 CE

#5735

Heel- en geneeskonstige aanmerkingen.

Van Meekeren was first to record a bone graft. He states (Chap. 1) that he read a report of it in a letter received by the Rev. Engebert Sloot of Slooterdijk from John Kraanwinkel, a missionary in Russia, where the op…

1909 CE

#5628

Hemorrhage and transfusion.

1937 CE

#3019

Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…

1970 CE

#3611.4

Hernia repair without disability.

First monograph on ambulatory hernia surgery. Second edition published by Ishiyaku Euroamerica in 1986 was retitled: Hernia repair without disability: A surgical atlas illustrating the anatomy, technique, and physiolo…

1857 CE

#3591

Hernia retroperitonealis. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte innerer Hernien.

Treitz described retroperitoneal hernia through the duodeno-jejunal recess – “Treitz’s hernia”.