Facets

1880 CE

#3594.1

Hernia, strangulated and reducible, with cure by subcutaneous injections.

The injection method of treating hernia remained a frequently utilized procedure until the 1930s.

1884 CE

#12279

Hertztamponade: Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.

Rose coined the term "Herztomponade" translated as "cardiac tamponade." He "described the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade and recorded 23 case histories of ruptured or wounded hearts, several of which did not cau…

1935 CE

#8318

Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.

Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.

1919 CE

#5630

Histamine shock.

Experimental shock produced by histamine and shown to be similar to traumatic and surgical shock.

1958 CE

#2578.30

Histocompatibility genes of the mouse.

Snell made fundamental contributions to transplantation genetics. At his suggestion genes governing transplantation were called histocompatibility genes and Gorer’s Antigen II became Histocompatibility-2 (H-2). …

1770 CE–1773 CE

#437.1

Histoire de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie. 6 vols.

A biobibliographical survey to 1755, including dentistry.

1774 CE–1780 CE

#6374.12

Histoire de la chirurgie depuis son origine jusqu’a nos jours. 2 vols.

Dujardin seems to be the first European to discuss acupuncture within its historical context as an ancient remedy still found to be of practical value. His section on Chinese and Japanese medicine appears on pp. 75-10…

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…

1934 CE

#5807

Histoire de la chirurgie française (1790-1920).

1965 CE

#2068.8

Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.

2005 CE

#12559

Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.

1930 CE

#7797

Historic artificial limbs.

1998 CE

#12336

History of cardiovascular surgery. Edited by L. A. Bockeria.

An international conference on the history of cardiovascular surgery. Dedicated to the memory of V.I. Burakovsky (Moscow, September 24-25, 1996). Attendees and contributors included many Western and Russian pioneers.

1981 CE

#5768.4

History of free skin grafting.

Comprehensive work, with hundreds of bibliographical references. No index.

2013 CE

#12927

History of orthodontics.

This history covers 19th century and earlier developments but emphasizes 20th century material including "History of dental lasers and their applications in orthodontics," "History of of Invisalign," etc.

2017 CE

#13721

History of social media in surgery.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Logghe, McFadden, Tully, Jones. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

1943 CE

#5812

History of surgery

2003 CE

#7839

History of the treatment of spinal cord injuries.

A history of the treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord and cauda equina injuries.

1991 CE

#8774

History of transplantation: Thirty-five recollections.

1863 CE

#4332

Hochgradige Dislocation der Scapula.

First description of congenital high-scapula “Sprengel’s deformity”; see also No. 4359.

1847 CE–1848 CE

#6275

Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.

Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicemia. He concluded that the doctors and students of Vienna’s First Obstetrical Clinic carried the infec…

1964 CE

#3047.18

Homograft aortic valve replacement in aortic incompetence and stenosis.

Subcoronary homograft valve; report on 44 patients, of whom 41 survived. Barratt-Boyes was a pioneering cardiac surgeon in New Zealand.

1962 CE

#3047.17

Homograft replacement of the aortic valve.

Homograft valve placed below coronary orifice, a single page report. The first complete report on the "Ross procedure" was "Homotransplantation of the aortic valve in the subcoronary posittion," J. thorac. cardiovasc.…

1956 CE

#3047.8

Homologous aortic-valve-segment transplants as surgical treatment for aortic and mitral insufficiency.

First successful aortic valve homograft. For report of six-year follow-up, see A. J. Kerwin, et al., New Engl. J. Med.,1962, 266,852.

1950 CE

#4256.1

Homotransplantation of the kidney in human; preliminary report.

Report of first human patient to survive a kidney transplant. The operation was on June 17, 1950, and the patient was discharged on August 26. With four co-authors. See No. 4257.

1963 CE

#3666.3

Homotransplantation of the liver in humans.

First human liver transplant (three patients; one died during operation, the second after 7.5 days, and the third after 22 days). With five co-authors.

1898 CE

#5801

Hundert Jahre Chirurgie.

History of 18th-century German surgery.

1833 CE

#13149

Hunterian reminiscences; being the substance of a course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery, delivered by the late John Hunter, in the year 1785: Taken in short-hand, and afterwards fairly transcribed by the late James Parkinson ... Edited by his son, J.W.K. Parkinson ..., by whom are appended illustrative notes.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1951 CE

#12238

Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.

In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…

1903 CE

#5626

Hyperaemie als Heilmittel.

Bier introduced hyperemia, active and passive, as an adjuvant in surgical therapy. English translation, Chicago, A. Robertson, 1905. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.

1924 CE

#4392

Hypertelorism. A hitherto undifferentiated congenital cranio-facial deformity.

First description of hypertelorism as a separate entity.

1952 CE

#13527

Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.

"Accepted by the American Dental Association."

1950 CE

#3047.1

Hypothermia: its possible role in cardiac surgery: an investigation of factors governing survival in dogs at low body temperatures.

Bigelow pioneered surface-induced whole body hypothermia and temporary cardiac flow occlusion. With W.F. Greenwood.

1801 CE

#3580

Icones herniarum. Editae a S. T. Soemmerring.

Camper illustrated his own work, and was an outstanding anatomical artist. His illustrations of hernias are of great value.

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”.

1820 CE–1821 CE

#5588

Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.

One of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery. Hand-colored copies show more blood than is usual for surgical treatises of this period. From publication in fascicul…

1895 CE

#3604.1

Imbrication or lap joint method; a plastic operation for hernia.

Described imbrication of flaps in hernia repairs.

1561 CE

#1814

In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi ... Annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libros V : longè aliae quàm ante hac sunt evulgatae. Ejusdem Val. Cordi Historiae stirpium Lib. IIII. posthumi, nunc primùm in lucem editi, adjectis etiam stirpium iconibus, & brevissimus annotatiunculis. Sylva, qua rerum fossilium in Germania plurimarum, metallorum, lapidum & stirpium aliquot rariorum notitiam brevissimè persequitur, nunquam hactenus visa. De artificiosis extractionibus liber. Compositiones medicinales aliquot, non vulgares. His accedunt Stocc-Hornii et Nessi in Bernatium Helvetiorum ditione montium, & nascentium in eis stirpium, descriptio Benedicti Aretii ... Item Conradi Gesneri De hortus Germaniae, liber recens, unà cum descriptione tulipae turcarum, chamaecerasi montani, chamaemespili, chamaenerii, & conozoidis ... Omnia summa studio atque industria ... Conr. Gesneri ... collecta, & praefationibus illustrata.

This work not only updated the species listed by Dioscorides, but also listed about 500 new species of plants. Published posthumously, the work was carefully edited by Conrad Gesner. Cordus was the inventor of phytogr…

1528 CE

#36

In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur. [Title in Greek and Latin].

Paul of Aegiina was the most famous physician and surgeon in the Byzantine Empire during the seventh century, and probably thereafter. According to Eugene F. Rice, "Paulus Aegineta", Catalogus translationum et comment…

1929 CE

#5712

Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.

Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.

1912 CE

#4386.01

Infections of the hand: A guide to the surgical treatment of acute and chronic suppurative processes in the fingers, hand, and forearm.

The first comprehensive treatise on hand surgery, and the classic work on tendon and bursal hand spaces relevant to management of hand infections. Kanavel developed the method of forcible injection of radio-opaque mat…

1892 CE

#5683

Infiltrationsanästhesie (locale Anästhesie) und ihr Verhältniss zur allgemeinen Narcose (Inhalationsanästhesie).

Infiltration anesthesia was developed by Schleich after pioneer work by Halsted (No. 5679) Schleich published a paper in English on the subject in Int. Clin., 1895, 5 ser., 2, 177-92.

1948 CE

#3611.2

Inguinal and femoral hernioplasty: anatomic repair.

The McVay or Cooper ligament repair.

1811 CE

#2930

Inguinal aneurism cured by tying the external iliac artery in the pelvis.

First successful ligation of the external iliac artery in America (Aug. 19, 1811).

1963 CE

#4435.6

Injuries involving the epiphyseal plate.

Standard classification of growth plate fractures in children.

1911 CE

#4384

Injury of the spinal cord due to rupture of an intervertebral disc during muscular effort.

Report of a case of “sciatica” due to rupture of an intervertebral disc.

1846 CE

#5651

Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.

William T. G. Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time on 16 October 1846 during at operation by John Collins Warren to remove a benign angioma under the jaw of a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital…

1781 CE

#10715

Instrumentarium chirurgicum Viennense oder, Wiennerische chirurgische Instrumenten-Sammlung.

Brambilla was a personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and the first director of the Vienna hospital and the Josefinum school for military surgeons (now a medical museum). Brambilla provided a history of s…

1903 CE

#3526

Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.

Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.

1744 CE

#3355

Instruments proposed to remedy some kinds of deafness proceeding from obstructions in the external and internal auditory passages.

Cleland, an army surgeon, devised the method of catheterization of the Eustachian tube by way of the nose; he designed the instruments necessary for the operation.