Facets

1876 CE

#5674

On an apparatus for administering nitrous oxide gas and ether, singly or combined.

Clover’s ether inhaler. See also the same journal, 1877, 1, 69. He invented an inhaler in 1862; this was described, but not by Clover, in Med. Times Gaz., 1862, 2, 149.

1834 CE

#4167

On the anatomy and diseases of the neck of the bladder, and of the urethra.

Guthrie was the first to describe non-prostatic obstruction at the neck of the bladder. On p. 252 of the above work is an account of Guthrie’s prostatic catheter for use in trans-urethral prostatectomy.

1848 CE

#5663

On the inhalation of chloroform and ether. With description of an apparatus.

Snow’s chloroform inhaler.

1905 CE

#5693

Perorale Tubagen mit und ohne Druck.

Kuhn introduced the intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization about 1900; he used a flexible metal tube and a curved introducer. He also experimented with positive and negative pressure insufflation.

1803 CE

#4308.1

Practical observations in surgery.

Hey is remembered for “Hey’s saw” and “Hey’s internal derangement of the knee,” a phrase that he coined. He was an outstanding surgeon in his day; he founded and was senior surgeon …

2004 CE

#8137

Primer of robotic & telerobotic surgery. Edited by Garth H. Ballantyne, Jacques Marescaux, and Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.

1879 CE

#5615

Remarks on forcipressure and the use of pressure-forceps in surgery.

Spencer Wells forceps.

1867 CE

#3274

Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.

First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.

2004 CE

#7958

Robotic surgery: A current perspective.

A review of the history, development and then-current applications of robotics in surgery. The paper is freely available from PubMedCentral at this link.

2006 CE

#7951

Robotics in surgery: History, Current and future applications. Edited by Russel A. Faust.

2002 CE

#7953

Semiotic flesh: Information and the human body. Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell.

Includes "The virtual surgeon: Operating on the data in an age of medialization" by Timothy Lenoir.

1902 CE

#11573

Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.

According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…

1973 CE

#4914.6

Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: Neurophysiological aspects and operative technique.

With A. Richardson and N. Mitchell-Heggs.

1965 CE

#4914.3

Stereotactic tractotomy in the surgical treatment of mental illness.

1947 CE

#4912.1

Stereotaxic apparatus for operations on the human brain.

"The first successful cranial application of stereotactic surgery in humans is credited to the team of Ernest Spiegel and Henry Wycis in the Department of Experimental Neurology at Temple University in Philadelphia (S…

1853 CE

#5603

Sur un nouveau moyen d’opérer la coagulation du sang dans les artères, applicable à la guérison des anéurismes.

Pravaz invented galvanocautery.

1907 CE

#5806

Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.

1889 CE

#5620.1

The American armamentarium chirurgicum.

The most comprehensive trade catalogue of medical and surgical instruments and equipment published in America during the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmondson and F. Terry Hambrecht, San Fran…

2006 CE

#6905

The evolution of surgical instruments: An illustrated history from ancient times to the twentieth century.

1955 CE

#14312

The maser - new type of microwave amplifier, frequency standard, and spectrometer.

In 1964 Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Alexandr Mihailovich Prokhorov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of osci…

1899 CE

#2680.01

The mechanics of surgery.

An encyclopedic work that described illustrated and analysed the entire range of instrumentation employed in medical and surgical practice at the end of the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmons…

1994 CE

#8140

The NeuroStation--a highly accurate, minimally invasive solution to frameless stereotactic neurosurgery.

The beginning of image-guided surgery. Abstract: "The NeuroStation is an image-guided neurosurgery workstation designed to deliver frameless stereotaxy within an ergonomic, integrated surgical environment. Generally, …

1941 CE

#5723

The Oxford vaporiser No. 1.

With R. R. Macintosh and K. Mendelssohn. The Oxford vaporiser No. 2 is described in the same journal, pp. 64-66 by S. L. Cowan, R. D. Scott, and S. F. Suffolk.

1908 CE

#1435.1

The structure and functions of the cerebellum examined by a new method.

Stereotactic apparatus for the accurate location of electrodes in the brain. The apparatus devised by Horsley and Clarke opened the way to stereotactic surgery of the brain.

2001 CE

#7959

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery.

The "Lindbergh operation", a complete very long distance tele-surgical gallbladder operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France using high-spreed telecommun…

1908 CE

#5693.1

Un appareil pour l’anesthésie par l’éther.

Ombrédanne ether inhaler.

1898 CE

#4874

Zur Technik der temporären Schädelresektion mit meiner Drahtsäge.

Gigli’s saw adapted for craniotomy. Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1962, 19, 1103.

1655 CE

#3669.1

Χειροπλοθήκη seu armamentarium chirurgicum.

Scultetus is famous for his illustrations of surgical procedures and both surgical and dental instruments. With respect to dentistry he describes and illustrates stomatological operations and includes fine illustratio…