Facets

1910 CE

#11729

Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes: A celebrated malpractice suit in Maine.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1860 CE

#4421

Luxation traumatique suivie de luxation volontaire du fémur droit.

“Perrin–Ferraton disease” of the hip, later more fully dealt with by L. Ferraton, Rev. Orthop. (Paris), 1905, 2 sér., 6, 45-51.

2019 CE

#14014

Machine learning identification of surgical and operative factors associated with surgical expertise in virtual reality simulation.

"Abstract "Importance Despite advances in the assessment of technical skills in surgery, a clear understanding of the composites of technical expertise is lacking. Surgical simulation allows for the quantitation of ps…

2012 CE

#8258

Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

1900 CE

#3522

Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.

Mayo’s operation of partial gastrectomy. Mayo was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.

1928 CE

#5783

Mammectomie totale et autogreffe libre aréolomamelonnaire; mammectomie bilatérale esthétique.

The modern operation of total bilateral mammectomy, with transplantation of the nipple and areola, was especially developed by Dartigues.

1834 CE

#5591

Manuel de médecine opératoire.

Malgaigne was a brilliant lecturer, notable also as a historian of medieval surgery. His Manuel was an important work on operative surgery, and was translated into English, German, Italian, and Arabic.

1977 CE–1981 CE

#5768.2

McDowell series of plastic surgical indexes. 5 vols.

Vol. I: 900 b.c. to a.d. 1863 (Zeis [see No. 5767] translated, with additions and revisions); Vol. II: 1864-1920; Vol. III: 1921-1946; [Vol. IV]: 25-year index of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1946-71; Vol. V: 1…

1867 CE

#10718

Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1927 CE

#5630.2

Mechanism and treatment of experimental shock. I. Shock following hemorrhage.

First of a series of papers in the Archives. See also No. 5630.3.

1994 CE

#9226

Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1554 CE

#2271

Medicina. 3 pts.

The first systematic treatise on pathology, which also introduced the names for the sciences of pathology and physiology. In the second part, entitled “Pathologia”, Fernel provided the first systematic ess…

1980 CE

#6596.4

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.

2005 CE

#8454

Medicine in the crusades: Warfare, wounds and the medieval surgeon.

The first book published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. "Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers D. Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, tortur…

1992 CE

#8382

Medicine meets virtual reality: Discovering applications for 3-D multi-media interactive technology in the health sciences. A symposium, June 4-7, 1992, San Diego, California.

The first conference on the medical applications of virtual reality.

1951 CE

#5813

Meister der Chirurgie und die Chirurgenschulen im Deutschen Raum.

1868 CE

#12404

Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.

An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1805 CE

#3430

Mémoire et observation sur l’entérotomie.

The first recorded colostomy for intestinal obstruction was performed by Fine in 1797. The patient survived 3.5 months.

1827 CE

#3562

Mémoire et observations sur quelques maladies de l’appendice cécale.

Mélier was the first to show the existence of chronic appendicitis; he recognized the causal relationship between the chronic affection and abscesses of the right iliac fossa and was first to suggest operative …

1830 CE

#11150

Mémoire sur l'excision de la partie inférieure du rectum, devenue carcinomateuse.

“The first successful operation for rectal cancer was performed by Lisfranc in 1826. This consisted of excising the anus and rectum via the perineum, which resulted in the functional equivalent of a perineal col…

1826 CE

#3435

Mémoire sur l’entéroraphie avec la description d’un procédé nouveau pour pratiquer cette opération chirurgicale.

Description of what is now known as Lembert’s suture, which ensures that serous surface is applied to serous surface in suturing intestine – the foundation of all modern gastric and intestinal surgery. Die…

1819 CE

#4411

Mémoire sur la fracture de l’extrémité inférieure du péroné, les luxations et les accidens qui en sont la suite.

“Dupuytren’s fracture”, of the ankle, described in a learned 212-page review of ankle fractures, and of the normal anatomy and function of the ankle joint. “Of especial interest is the descript…

1839 CE

#3442

Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel dans la région lombaire sans pénétrer dans le péritoine.

In 1839 Amussat performed the first lumbar colostomy for obstruction of the colon (“Amussat’s operation”). His work established lumbar colostomy as the method of choice. Translated in Dis. Colon. Rec…

1825 CE

#5741.2

Mémoire sur la staphyloraphie, ou la suture du voile du palais.

Roux’s first detailed paper on his operation for cleft of the soft palate in which he first proposed the name, “staphylorrhaphy”. The greatly expanded edition in book form, Paris, Chaudé, 1825…

1755 CE

#9190

Memoire sur les cors des pieds.

The first publication on podiatry, a pamphlet of 19, [1] pp. informally issued by Rousselot to promote his practice. Because of the non-standard title page without mention of place, publisher or date, the pamphlet see…

1826 CE

#4413

Mémoire sur un déplacement originel ou congénital de la tête des fémurs.

First clear pathological description of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint. Dupuytren distinguished this syndrome caused by failure of fetal development of the acetabulum from deformities due to tuberculosis and …

1828 CE

#3437

Mémoire sur une méthode nouvelle pour traiter les anus accidentels.

Dupuytren invented an enterotome to perform his operation for artificial anus.

1844 CE

#3447

Mémoire sur une tumeur cancéreuse affectant l’iliaque du colon; ablation de la tumeur et de l’intestin; réunion directe et immédiate des deux bouts de cet organe. Guérison.

First intestinal resection for cancer.

1812 CE–1817 CE

#2160

Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes. (Vol. 5 entitled Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages.) 5 vols.

Larrey was the greatest military surgeon in history. Of him Napoleon said: “C’est l’homme le plus vertueux que j’ai connu”. He was present at all Napoleon’s great battles and one of…

1877 CE–1888 CE

#5613

Mémoires de chirurgie. 5 vols.

Verneuil, Paris surgeon, introduced forcipressure in hemorrhage (see No. 5612), dry bandaging, and iodoform in the treatment of abscesses. All his works are included in his Mémoires.

1803 CE

#4308

Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congenita dei fanciulli.

First accurate description of the pathological anatomy of congenital club-foot. English translation, Edinburgh, 1818.

1817 CE

#2940

Memoria sulla legature delle principali arterie degli arti.

1886 CE

#5797

Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.

South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Dig…

1919 CE

#4479

Menders of the maimed.

Gives details of the work of John Hunter, John Hilton, Hugh Owen Thomas, Little, Stromeyer, Marshall Hall, Arbuthnot Lane, Syme, Julius Wolff, etc., in the development of modern orthopaedics. Second edition, 1925. Fac…

1938 CE

#4612

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, H…

1831 CE

#6358.1

Merkwürdige Fragilität der Knochen ohne dyskrasische Ursache als krankhafte Eigenthümlichkeit dreier Geschwister.

Axmann of Wertheim described osteogenesis imperfecta occurring in himself and his two brothers. He referred to the occurrence of articular dislocations and blue sclerotics. See also No. 6367.

1846 CE

#5650.3

Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.

Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.

1959 CE

#13146

Metabolic care of the surgical patient. Edited by Francis D. Moore.

"...This book, by authorities in the field, is up to date and well organized. A wide range of subjects, including surgical endocrinology and metabolism, is covered. Important subjects such as normal and abnormal conva…

1927 CE

#13996

Metatarsus atavicus: The identification of a distinct type of foot disorder.

"Morton's toe," the condition of having a first metatarsal which is short in relation to the second metatarsal. It is a type of brachymetatarsia. See also Morton, The human foot: Its evolutionary development, physiolo…

1827 CE

#14199

Méthode nouvelle pour le traitement des déviations de la colonne vertébrale; précédée d'un examen critique des divers moyens employés par les orthopédistes modernes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1968 CE

#11984

Microneurosurgery: Application of the binocular surgical microscope in brain tumors, intracranial aneurysms, spinal cord disease, and nerve reconstruction.

1969 CE

#11990

Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.

The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.

1969 CE

#11992

Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.

Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…

1960 CE

#3005.1

Microsurgery in anastomosis of small vessels.

First demonstration of the value of the operating microscope in microsurgery.

1965 CE

#11986

Microsurgical resection of acoustic tumors by a transmeatal posterior fossa approach.

"On August 1st, 1957, Theodore Kurze at the University of Southern California became the first neurosurgeon to use an operating microscope to remove a a neurilemmoma of the VIIIth nerve. The inspiration to develop thi…

1884 CE

#5619

Mikro-Organismen bei den Wund-Infections-Krankheiten des Menschen.

Rosenbach proved that streptococci and staphylococci are distinct and differentiated two strains of staphylococci (“aureus” and “albus”). He cultured cocci from a considerable range of septic c…

1965 CE

#5733.1

Milestones in anesthesia. Readings in the development of surgical anesthesia, 1665-1940.

First-hand accounts of discoveries and advances in anesthesia.

1958 CE

#5813.1

Milestones in modern surgery.

Each chapter contains prefatory comments, a short biography of each main builder of the particular milestone (with portrait), and his surgical contribution reprinted or translated in full.

1966 CE

#5813.7

Mille ans de chirurgie en occident: Ve-XVe siècles.

1898 CE

#13224

Miniature hammers and the suture of the bile ducts.

Illustrated by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.