Facets

1935 CE

#4478

Interinnomino-abdominal (hind-quarter) amputation.

One-stage operation.

1914 CE

#4597

Internal hydrocephalus.

Dandy and the pediatrician Blackfan published two papers on the production, circulation, and absorption of CSF in the brain and on the causes and potential treatments of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the buildup of …

1892 CE

#3501

Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.

Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.

1884 CE

#3482

Intestinal obstruction

Jacksonian Prize essay.

1882 CE

#3477

Intorno alla divulsione digitale del pilore; osservazione cliniche.

First pyloroplasty, 1882. Abstract in English in Brit. med.J., 1885, 1, 372-74.

1931 CE

#4434

Intracapsular fractures of the neck of the femur. Treatment by internal fixation.

Smith-Petersen nail, a three-flanged nail which prevented rotation of the femoral head. With E.F. Cave and G. W. Van Gorder.

1955 CE

#10995

Intracardiac surgery with the aid of a mechanical pump oxygenator system (Gibbon type): Report of eight cases.

Co-authored with JW Dushane, RT Patrick, DE Donald, PS Hetzel and EH Wood, "Kirklin refined the heart-lung machine (screen type) originally developed by Gibbon, to the point that it allowed the person to receive oxyge…

1938 CE

#11187

Intracranial aneurysm of the internal carotid artery cured by operation.

Dandy was the first surgeon to directly clip an intracranial aneurysm.

1932 CE–1933 CE

#4901

Intracranial aneurysms: Cerebral arterioradiography: Surgical treatment.

The first planned intracranial operation for aneurysm.

1944 CE

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1892 CE

#4870

Intracranial neurectomy of the second and third divisions of the fifth nerve.

Hartley originated the operation of intracranial neurectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1932 CE

#4900

Intracranial tumours.

Cushing’s operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of his operations on brain tumors-- essentially a summ…

1913 CE

#5699.2

Intratracheal anaesthesia.

Kelly’s intratracheal ether apparatus.

1935 CE

#5720

Intravenous anesthesia: preliminary report of the use of two new thiobarbiturates.

Introduction of thiopentone sodium.

1957 CE

#13594

Intravenous infusion of bone marrow in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy.

Thomas and colleagues reported the first bone marrow transplants. They described the treatment of six patients with cancers and/leukemia and one patient with multiple myeloma. Three of the patients died, two responded…

2011 CE

#10142

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

2011 CE

#12240

Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.

1997 CE

#12759

Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.

Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…

1923 CE

#5706

Isoamyl ethyl barbituric acid-an anesthetic without influence on blood sugar regulation.

Sodium amytal described.

1930 CE

#5975

Keratoplasty.

Elschnig developed the method of corneal grafting introduced by von Hippel (No. 5933) and produced good results on the human eye.

1932 CE

#5981

Keratoplasty. A historical and experimental study, including a new method.

Castroviejo’s method of keratoplasty.

1995 CE

#7211

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

1851 CE–1854 CE

#5601

Klinische Chirurgie. 3 pts.

Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsi…

1927 CE

#5709

Klinische Erfahrungen mit Avertin (E 107).

First clinical use of “avertin”.

1854 CE

#4465

Kostno-plasticheskoye udlineniye kostei goleni pri vilushtshenii stopi. [Osteoplastic elongation of the bones of the leg in amputation of the foot.]

Pirogov’s method of complete osteoplastic amputation of the foot. German translation, Leipzig, 1854.

1937 CE

#5631

Künstliche Scheidenbildung mittels Eihäuten.

Introduction of amnioplastin.

1921 CE

#4389

Kyphosis dorsalis juvenilis.

“Scheuermann’s disease” – necrosis of the epiphyses of the vertebrae, causing kyphosis.

1703 CE

#14121

L'art de faire les raports en chirurgie, où l'on ensiegne la pratique, les formules & le stile le plus en usage parmi les chirurgiens commis aux rapports; avec un extrait des arrest, statuts & reglemens faits en consequence.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks to Webb Dordick for this reference.)

1914 CE

#5704

L’anesthésie régionale.

There was a second edition in 1917. Gaston Labat was the third co-author of the third edition (1921). Labat published his own book in English in 1922, the first work in English on the subject.

1705 CE

#4300

L’art de guérir les maladies des os. Ou l'on traite des luxations & des fractures, avec les instrumens necessaires & une machine de nouvelle invention pour les reduire: ensemble des exostoses & des caries, des anchyloses, des maladies des dents, & de la charte ou rachitis, maladie ordinaire aux enfans.

Petit was the first director of the Académie de Chirurgie, Paris. He is particularly remembered for his work on bone diseases. He invented the screw tourniquet, gave the first account of osteomalacia, and was f…

1781 CE

#9586

L’art de soigner les pieds, contenant: Un traité sur les cors, verrues, durillons, oignons, engelures, les accidens de ongles & leur difformité.

Laforest was the first to describe and illustrate the condition of hallux valgus. The second edition of this work (1782), "Augmentée d’un chapitre sur la manière de soigner les pieds des soldats en…

1907 CE

#4431.1

L’intervention opératoire dans les fractures.

Lambotte developed an external fracture fixation device using pins on either side of the fracture, connected by a solid rod.

1741 CE

#4301

L’orthopédie ou l’art de prévenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformités du corps. 2 vols.

The first book specifically on orthopedics, which term Andry himself introduced. He advised attention to proper posture in the prevention and correction of spinal curvature; he had a practical knowledge of body mechan…

1975 CE

#8633

La chirurgie à Montpellier de ses origines au début du XIXe siècle.

1695 CE

#5574

La chirurgie complète.

This “quiz-compend” passed through eighteen editions. Among other things it mentions the use of vitriol buttons for checking hemorrhage and the mode of manual compression used at the Hôtel-Dieu. Engl…

1490 CE

#5553

La chirurgie da Lanfranc traduit du latin par Guillaume Yvoire.

Lanfranc, the founder of French surgery, was a pupil of William of Salicet. He enjoyed a great reputation for his lecturing and bedside teaching. His Chirurgia magna was completed in 1296. According to Hirsch and othe…

1854 CE

#5555

La chirurgie de maître Jean Yperman, le père de la chirurgie flamande (1295-1351). Mise au jour et annotée par J. M. F. Carolus.

Jan Yperman, became the first authority on surgery in the Low Countries during the 14th century. He was also the first medical writer in the Dutch language. He probably born in or near Ypres in Belgium, and may have s…

1949 CE

#12784

La chirurgie discipline de la connaissance.

Three hundred copies on papier vélin contain a lithographed portrait of Leriche drawn and hand-signed and numbered by Henri Matisse.

2012 CE

#8402

La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.

1919 CE

#7729

La chirurgie esthétique des rides du visage.

Passot was the first surgeon in France to perform facelifts. In this article with 1 illustration, Passot showed "sites of elliptic skin excision of the hairline, the forehead, and the temporal and preauricular areas t…

1926 CE

#7724

La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.

Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.

1594 CE

#3669

La chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens.

Guillemeau was Paré’s son-in-law. His splendidly illustrated work is of special importance for dentistry and for surgery for cleft lip. It describes pyorrhea alveolaris for the first time and is also the …

1474 CE

#5552

La ciroxia vulgarmente fata.

Saliceto was Professor of Surgery at Bologna about 1268; his treatise on surgery, written about 1275, was the leading work on the subject in the 13th century. William broke with tradition by claiming that pus formatio…

1895 CE

#12876

La cocaine en chirurgie.

The first French book on local anesthesia.

1925 CE

#7728

La correction esthétique du prolapsus mammaire par le procédé de la transposition du mamelon.

No vertical scar breast lift technique. Translated into English by Schleich et al, "The aesthetic correction of the ptotic breast by the procedure of nipple-areola transposition - a contemporary translation and commen…

1908 CE

#2999

La cure des varices du membre inférieur par l’injection intraveineuse d’une solution d’iode.

Schiassi combined operative and sclerosant methods in the treatment of varicose veins. Translation in Med. Press, 1909, 87,377.

1510 CE

#11034

La cyrogia di Miastro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare.

Bruno da Longoburgo studied surgery in Bologna or possibly Padua, and practiced in the latter city, where he helped found the University of Padua. His Chirurgia magna, completed in 1252, antedates those of Lanfranch, …

1894 CE

#4472

La désarticulation interilio-abdominale.

Interilio-abdominal amputation first described.

1993 CE

#9054

La experiencia americana y la terapéutica en los Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), de Pedro Arias de Benavides.

1890 CE

#6999

La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.

The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.