Facets

1925 CE

#5707

A lecture on respiration in anaesthesia: Control by carbon dioxide.

Henderson’s important investigations on the physiology of respiration included his demonstration of the relation of acapnia to anesthesia and the recommendation that carbon dioxide inhalation be used to overcome…

1824 CE

#5647

A letter on suspended animation, containing experiments showing that it may be safely employed during operations on animals, with a view of ascertaining its probable utility in surgical operations on the human subject.

Hickman was the first to prove that the pain of surgical operations could be abolished by the inhalation of a gas. He rendered animals unconscious, first through partial asphyxiation by the exclusion of air, then by i…

1826 CE

#11728

A letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, chief justice of the Supreme court of the state of Massachusetts, containing remarks on the dislocation of the hip joint, occasioned by the publication of a trial which took place at Machias, in the state of Maine, June, 1824. By John C. Warren. With an appendix of documents from the trial necessary to illustrate the history of the case.

This work, illustrated with 5 plates, contains several clear and minute descriptions of dislocation of the hip joint. In the course of the monograph Warrenproved the possibility of a type of dislocation that was denie…

1965 CE

#14338

A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.

Published as a 20-page pamphlet.

1971 CE

#13181

A list of the works of Sir James Young Simpson, 1811-1870: A centenary tribute by K. F. Russell and F. M. C. Forster.

1861 CE

#7867

A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.

Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …

1861 CE

#7811

A manual of military surgery: for the use of surgeons in the Confederate army: with an appendix of the rules and regulations of the medical department of the Confederate army.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1859 CE

#11364

A manual of operative surgery on the dead body.

Smith's concept was the teaching of surgery in a manner analogous to the teaching of anatomy--i.e. from a cadaver. His book organizes and explains the operations that student surgeons could practice on a cadaver. Digi…

1833 CE

#3586

A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac.

Introduction of the principle of dividing a stricture outside the sac in cases of strangulated hernia.

1963 CE

#3020.2

A method for extraction of arterial emboli and thrombi.

Introduction of the balloon catheter in arterial embolectomy. With J. J. Cranley, R. J. Krause, E. S. Strasser and C. D. Hafner.

1910 CE

#3532

A method of anastomosis between sigmoid and rectum.

Balfour’s operation for resection of the sigmoid colon.

1870 CE

#2170

A method of antiseptic treatment applicable to wounded soldiers in the present war.

In 1870, for the first time on the battlefield, French and German army surgeons applied antiseptic methods in the management of wounds. Lister published the above short paper describing the simplest method he could de…

1940 CE

#5722

A method of continous spinal anesthesia. A preliminary note.

Continous spinal analgesia introduced.

1949 CE

#5766.1

A method of cutting and suturing the lip in the treatment of complete unilateral clefts.

LeMesurier’s cheiloplasty procedure was based on Hagedorn’s method. He was first to attempt construction of the cupid’s bow of the vermilion.

1908 CE

#3528.1

A method of performing abdomino-perineal excision for carcinoma of the rectum and of the terminal portion of the pelvic colon.

Miles devised the operation of abdomino-perineal resection.

1891 CE

#3499

A method of performing inguinal colotomy, with cases.

Paul’s tube introduced.

1784 CE

#5645.91

A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery.

Moore revived the ancient concept of nerve compression, developing a special clamp for its use. John Hunter used Moore’s clamp in a leg amputation in 1784 in which analgesia was successfully obtained.

1909 CE

#5756.3

A method of splinting skin grafts.

The Davis graft was devised by Halsted but Davis popularized its use.

1900 CE

#4875

A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.

1894 CE

#4429

A method of treating simple oblique fractures of the tibia and fibula more efficient than those in common use.

Lane’s method of “osteo-synthesis” in the treatment of fractures – the perfect re-apposition of the affected parts by means of operative intervention.

1588 CE

#3416

A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.

This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…

1843 CE

#3259

A nasal operation for the removal of a large tumour filling up the entire nostril and extending to the pharynx.

Removal of a fibrous growth from the nostril by division of the nasal and maxillary bones, July 8, 1841. Preliminary note in the same journal, 1842, 3, 257.

1929 CE

#5711

A new anaesthetic gas: Cyclopropane. A preliminary report.

1969 CE

#3047.22

A new approach to “anatomic” repair of transposition of the great arteries.

The Rastelli procedure. “Intraventricular rerouting of left ventricular output through the ventricular septal defect to the aorta and establishing of a new right ventricular outflow through the ventriculotomy an…

1860 CE

#4422

A new instrument for the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity.

Smith devised an anterior or suspensatory splint for use in the treatment of fractures of the femur. The apparatus was heavily used during the U.S. Civil War and was especially valuable in treating compound fractures.

1943 CE

#13709

A new laryngoscope.

Macintosh larygnoscope.

1875 CE

#5754

A new method of performing plastic operations.

Wolfe insisted that in free skin grafts the subcutaneous tissue at the site of the graft must be removed, and that the graft should consist of skin only. His name is perpetuated in the “Wolfe-Krause graft rest&r…

1972 CE

#5766.2

A new method of total reconstruction of the penis.

The first description of the use of a musculocutaneous flap in reconstructive surgery. The resulting penis was fully-functional.

1892 CE

#4363

A new operation for paralytic talipes valgus, and the enunciation of a new surgical principle.

First successful tendon transplantation.

1910 CE

#5756.4

A new operation for prominent ears based on the anatomy of the deformity.

Luckett developed the modern operation for the correction of protruding ears.

1891 CE

#4867

A new operation for spasmodic wry neck, namely, division or exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head.

Spastic torticollis treated by division of spinal accessory nerve and posterior roots of first, second, and third spinal nerves.

1924 CE

#4894

A new operative procedure in the treatment of spastic paralysis and its experimental basis.

Sympathetic ramisection. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1924, 39, 701-20.

1939 CE

#4909.1

A new palliative operation in cases of inoperable occlusion of the Sylvian aqueduct.

Ventriculocisternostomy for the relief of obstructive hydrocephalus.

1898 CE

#5755.2

A new plastic operation for the relief of deformity due to double harelip.

Abbe’s lip-switch flap, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip. This is also known eponymically as the Abbe–Estlander operation, crediting Jako…

1921 CE

#5759

A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.

Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.

1934 CE

#6228

A new technique for the self-administration of gas-air analgesia in labour.

Introduction of the “Minnitt apparatus”.

1902 CE

#3525

A new use for the useless appendix, in the surgical treatment of obstinate colitis.

Weir’s appendicostomy operation.

1871 CE

#3592.1

A new use of carbolized catgut ligatures.

Marcy was the first to stress the importance of reconstruction of the internal ring following reduction of the sac.

1955 CE

#3666.1

A note on transplantation of the whole liver in dogs.

Placement of auxiliary whole liver.

1876 CE

#4341

A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation.

First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia (“Morton’s disease”). See also No. 4325.

2006 CE

#10144

A perfectly striking departure: Surgeons and surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912—1980.

2012 CE

#14013

A physics-based virtual simulator for cranial microneurosurgery training.

"Abstract "BACKGROUND: "A virtual reality neurosurgery simulator with haptic feedback may help in the training and assessment of technical skills requiring the use of tactile and visual cues. "OBJECTIVE: "To develop a…

1794 CE

#4307

A practical essay on a certain disease of the bones termed necrosis.

One of the first attempts at a complete and detailed description of necrosis. Russell was the first Professor of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh.

1840 CE

#8465

A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.

Includes a discussion of the Hindu method of rhinoplasty and other plastic operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1846 CE

#3589

A practical treatise on abdominal hernia.

1860 CE

#4420

A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations.

The first comprehensive treatise in English on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. See No. 1742.

1860 CE

#3459.1

A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.

The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …

1778 CE

#3676

A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth, intended as a supplement to the natural history of those parts.

This and Hunter's The natural history of the human teeth (No. 3675) revolutionized the practice of dentistry and provided a basis for later dental research. Hunter devised appliances for the correction of malocclusion…

1951 CE

#2993.1

A propos du traitement des anévrysmes de l’aorte. Ablation de l’anévrysme. Rétablissement de la continuité par greffe d’aorte humaine conservée.

First successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm and insertion of a homologous graft. With M. Allary and N. Oeconomos.

1902 CE

#12249

A report of a case of successful suturing of the heart, and table of thirty-seven other cases of suturing by different operations with various terminations, and the conclusions drawn.

Hill reported his successful suturing of a knife wound in the left ventricle. His patient, a thirteen-year-old boy recovered. This was the first successful suture of the heart performed in America. Hill argued "that a…