Facets

1949 CE

#4914

Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.

With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.

1977 CE

#11656

Revised technique for cellulite fat reduction in riding breeches deformity.

This father-and-son team of Italian gynecologists invented a technique that used a small, rotating scalpel inside a thin, hollow metal cannula inserted through small incisions in the body. The rotating scalpel broke u…

1837 CE

#5743.3

Rhinoplastic operation.

The first rhinoplasty reported in the United States. For this Warren used the Hindu method, grafting the flap from the forehead of the patient. Warren reported the first use of the Italian or Tagliacotian method (graf…

1818 CE

#5738

Rhinoplastik, oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen.

Von Graefe revived rhinoplasty in Germany with this survey of what he called the three methods: the Italian, the Indian, and the “German” method, his own variation on the Italian method. On p. 13 he descri…

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.

1934 CE

#4435

Rupture of the intervertebral disc with involvement of the spinal canal.

Demonstration of the causal role of intervertebral disc herniation in sciatica.

1966 CE

#12570

Safavid surgery.

The history of surgery during the Safavid dynasty that ruled Persia from 1502 to 1736, and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.

1968 CE

#3047.21

Saphenous vein autograft replacement of severe segmental coronary artery occlusion: Operative technique.

First report on bypass of a human coronary artery. See No. 3047.25. Two years later Favoloro published a monograph on the topic: Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis (Baltimore, 1970). Digital facsimile fro…

1879 CE

#4346

Sarcoma of the long bones; based upon a study of one hundred and sixty-five cases.

First comprehensive work on bone sarcoma.

1567 CE

#9053

Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.

Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…

1925 CE

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.

1949 CE

#4914.1

Selective cortical undercutting as a means of modifying and studying frontal lobe function in man. Preliminary report of forty-three operative cases.

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.

1905 CE

#82.1

Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.

An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological pap…

1906 CE

#5780

Senile parenchymatous hypertrophy of female breast.

Bloodgood’s theory of the causation of chronic mastitis.

1676 CE

#5573

Severall chirurgicall treatises.

Wiseman ranks in surgery as high as does Sydenham in medicine. He made many valuable contributions to the subject; he was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints (“tumor albus”) and he gave a good…

1969 CE

#3611.3

Shouldice repair for inguinal hernia.

The Canadian or Shouldice repair.

1858 CE

#5605

Silver sutures in surgery.

Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037.

1943 CE

#5765

Skin grafting. A new method based on the principles of tissue culture.

First use of fibrin glue for skin grafting. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1943, 77, 510-13.

1989 CE

#7763

Socioeconomics of surgery.

Probably the first book-form study of these issues.

1847 CE

#11913

Some account of the first use of sulphuric ether by inhalation in surgical practice. [Read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, April 12, 1847.]

Hayward's case report of the first major operation performed under ether anesthesia, which he performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital on November 7, 1846, three weeks after Warren's first operation using ether…

1909 CE

#789

Some considerations upon high amputation of the rectum.

“Hartmann’s critical point”, the site on the large intestine where the lowest sigmoid artery meets the superior rectal arterial branch.

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…

1836 CE

#2956

Some experiments and observations on tying the carotid and vertebral arteries, and the pneumo-gastric, phrenic, and sympathetic nerves.

1768 CE

#4408

Some few general remarks on fractures and dislocations.

The methods outlined by Pott in his classic work on fractures and dislocations were eventually adopted all over the world. He described (pp. 57-64) “Pott’s fracture” in this book, and he stressed the…

1926 CE

#5707.1

Some physical factors in the administration of gaseous ether.

McKesson introduced the intermittent flow method.

1952 CE

#859.1

Some physiologic aspects of the artificial heart problem.

On July 3, 1952 Dodrill completed the first successful open heart surgery on the left ventricle of Henry Opitek. He used a machine developed by himself and researchers at General Motors, the Dodrill-GMR, considered to…

1907 CE

#4879.01

Some points on the surgery of the brain and its membranes.

Ballance recognized and described chronic subdural hematoma with great accuracy, described a successful operation for it and also for subdural hygroma, discussed brain abscess fully and devoted 243pp. to brain tumors.

1830 CE

#4316

Some remarks on morbus coxarius, with an account of Dr. P. S. Physick’s method of treating this disease.

Randolph was the son-in-law of Philip Syng Physick. Physick’s method “consisted in the application of a carved splint, which would keep the limb strictly at rest, and prevent the least possible motion of t…

1899 CE

#4191.1

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

1927 CE

#6009

Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.

Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.

1948 CE

#4482

Source book of orthopaedics.

A concise, thematic history of orthopedic surgery from the earliest times. Includes a useful bibliography. Reprinted 1968.

1959 CE

#13242

Speech and brain mechanisms.

1885 CE

#5680

Spinal anaesthesia and local medication of the cord.

Spinal anesthesia introduced. Corning showed experimentally that cocaine exerts a prolonged anesthetic effect while arresting the circulation in the anesthetized area. He first described injection of cocaine between t…

1877 CE

#4344.1

Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic…

1894 CE

#3022.2

Stab wound of pericardium; resection of rib; suture of pericardium; recovery.

“This was the first report in America and probably world-wide in which there was a successful evacuation of a traumatic hemopericardium and a suture placed in the pericardium. Dalton’s patient was operated…

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…

2011 CE

#11809

Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.

Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005.

1904 CE

#5690

Stovaine, anesthésique locale.

Introduction of stovaine, 1903.

1901 CE

#5688

Studien über die Narkose.

Overton developed the lipid theory of narcosis.

1901 CE

#2250.2

Studien zur Pathologie der Verbrennung. Die Ursache des Todes nach ausgedehnter Hautverbrennung.

Wilms was first to carry out full excision of burnt tissue, and sometimes grafted excised areas.

1877 CE

#3593

Studien zur Radikalbehandlung der Hernien.

1926 CE

#14313

Studies in intracranial physiology & surgery. The third circulation. The hypophysis. The gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925.

This series of three lectures was an analytical review by Cushing of the three main categories of scientific work that he had accomplished during the previous 25 years. Remarkably, Cushing completed this review and de…

1960 CE

#3047.14

Studies on orthotopic homotransplantation of the canine heart.

Important experimental technique (Shumway); reported eight heart homotransplants.

1884 CE

#4857

Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.

Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1887 CE–1888 CE

#3489

Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.

Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).

1827 CE

#4451.1

Successful amputation at the hip-joint.

This is “the first reported amputation at the hip joint found in the American medical literature” (Rutkow). See No. 4462.