Facets

1955 CE

#10994

Diseases of the liver and biliary system.

13th edition, 2018. "In 1959 she [Sherlock] became the United Kingdom's first ever female Professor of Medicine when she was appointed at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. She founded the liver uni…

1929 CE

#3657

Diseases of the liver, gall-bladder, and bile ducts. 3rd edition.

1901 CE

#3524

Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.

1720 CE

#976

Dissertatio anatomica qua novum bilis diverticulum circa orificium ductus choledochi ut et valvulosam colli vesicae felleae constructionem ad disceptandum proponit.

Following Vater’s classic description of the ampulla of the bile duct, it was named the “ampulla of Vater”.

1777 CE

#980

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de alimentorum concoctione.

First isolation of human gastric juice. Stevens was also the first successfully to perform an in vitro digestion, proving the presence in the gastric juice of the active principle necessary for the assimilation of foo…

1780 CE

#981

Dissertazioni di fisica animale e vegetable. 2 vols.

In the first patrt of this work, Della digestione dissertazione prima Spallanzani confirmed earlier doctrines of the solvent property of the gastric juice and discovered the action of the saliva in digestion. He state…

1684 CE

#974.2

Du ductu salivati hactenus non descriptio.

“Bartholin’s duct” and “gland”, the sublingual salivary gland and ducts.

1843 CE

#992.3

Du suc gastrique et de son rôle dans la nutrition.

Bernard showed that if sucrose is injected directly into the blood it is eliminated by the kidneys while glucose is retained, and that gastric juice transforms sucrose into assimilable sugar. See F. J. Holmes, Claude …

1849 CE

#996

Du sue pancréatique et de son rôle dans les phénomenès de la digestion.

Discovery of the digestive action of the pancreatic juice, especially its role in the digestion and absorption of fats. Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 581-617.

1910 CE

#3535

Duodenal ulcer.

Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence, pain-food-ease, and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he establ…

1892 CE

#3505

Ein Fall von einem frei in die Bauchhöhle perforirten Magengeschwür; Laparotomie; Naht der Perforationsstelle; Heilung.

In 1892 Ludwig Heusner (1846-1916) successfully sutured a perforated gastric ulcer, the first successful case on record. It was reported by H. Kriege.

1882 CE

#3627

Ein Fall von Exstirpation der Gallenblase wegen chronischer Cholelithiasis; Heilung.

First successful removal of the gallbladder.

1930 CE

#3144.1

Ein hochwirksamer, injizierbarer Leberextrakt.

Gänsslen introduced an injectable liver extract in the treatment of pernicious anemia.

1911 CE

#3536

Ein operativ geheilter Fall von kongenitaler Dünndarmatresie.

Treatment of congenital atresia of ileum by lateral anastomosis.

1932 CE

#3553

Ein völlig ungefährliches, flexibles Gastroskop.

Introduction of the flexible gastroscope.

1885 CE

#3628

Eine Icterusepidemie.

Dr. Lürman, a general practitioner in Bremen, was first to report homologous serum hepatitis. English translation in Human viral hepatitis, by A. J. Zuckerman, 2nd ed., New York, 1972, pp. 4-10.

1894 CE

#3513

Eine Methode zur titrimetrischen Bestimmung der hauptsächlichsten Factoren der Magenacidität.

Toepfer’s test for hydrochloric acid in gastric juice.

1871 CE

#1010

Einige Versuche mit Fermenten, welche Stärke und Rohrzucker in Traubenzucker verwandeln.

1994 CE

#11506

English manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1): from Anatomia hepatis (The anatomy of the liver), 1654. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 3. Edited by Andrew Cunningham.

Publishes for the first time the surviving partial English text of Glisson's book on the liver, and of the work's postscript on the lymphatic system. Glisson wrote in English, but his text was translated into Latin fo…

1931 CE

#5541

Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.

First description.

1822 CE

#1847

Erfahrungen über die grossen Heilkräfte des Leberthrans gegen chronische Rheumatismen und besonders gegen das Hüft- und Lendenweh.

Schenk’s account of his experience with cod liver oil led to its general use on the continent of Europe. Author’s name incorrectly given as Scherer in original.

1876 CE

#3624

Étude sur une forme de cirrhose hypertrophique du foie (cirrhose hypertrophique avec ictère chronique).

“Hanot’s disease”. First description of hypertrophic cirrhosis of the liver with icterus. Thesis publication, 1875; published in book form, Paris, 1876. Digital facsimile of the book form edition fro…

1651 CE

#1095

Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum chyli receptaculum, et ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavis vasa lactea deteguntur.

Pecquet discovered the thoracic duct in dogs and its relation to the lacteals. Using a dog that was digesting, he described the thoracic duct, its entry into the subclavian veins, and the receptaculum chyli or chyle r…

1900 CE–1901 CE

#3640

Experimental bacillary cirrhosis of the liver.

Hektoen produced experimental cirrhosis of the liver. His notable work in pathology includes the foundation of the Archives of Pathology.

1862 CE

#1005

Experimental researches into a new excretory function of the liver, consisting in the removal of cholesterine from the blood and its discharge from the body in the form of stercorine.

Discovery, in the feces, of “stercorine” (coprosterol).

1833 CE

#989

Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion.

Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian half-breed who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont as the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach …

1814 CE

#986

Experiments and observations on the influence of the nerves of the eighth pair on the secretions of the stomach.

Before turning to surgery, Brodie did important work in physiology. Above is his study of the influence of the pneumogastric nerve on gastric secretion.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#3648

Experiments on haemolytic icterus.

McNee showed that bile pigment formation is not a function of the liver cells alone, but can take place in other tissues. He thus disproved the theory propounded by Minkowski and Naunyn in 1886.

1913 CE

#14325

Extramukose cardiaplastik beim chronischen cardiospasmus mit dilatation des esophagus.

Heller myotomy for the treatment of achalasia.

1888 CE

#3489.1

Fälle von angeborener Pylorusstenose, beobachtet bei Säuglingen.

Hirschsprung first made the medical world aware of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis as a distinct clinical entity. In this paper he made no suggestions concerning therapy.

1958 CE

#11458

Fecal enema as an adjunct in the treatment of pseudomembranous enterocolitis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Eiseman, Silen, Bascom.... Report of the first "fecal transplant / fecal therapy," also known as "faecal microbiota transplanation," for recurrent / resistant C. diffic…

1889 CE

#1013

Fisiologia del digiuni.

Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man – hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1927 CE

#3655

Funktionsprüfung der Leber mittels Bilirubinbelastung.

Bilirubin excretion test of liver function. See also his thesis, published in 1925.

1826 CE

#987.2

Further experiments on the case of Alexis San Martin, who was wounded in the stomach by a load of buckshot.

In this and No. 987.1 Beaumont first described his revolutionary experiments on Alexis St. Martin. He continued these researches and published his monograph in 1833. See No. 989.

1915 CE

#3541

Gastric and duodenal ulcer; medical cure by an efficient removal of gastric juice corrosion.

“Sippy diet” for the treatment of peptic ulcer.

1929 CE

#3547

Gastric and duodenal ulcer.

1881 CE

#3476

Gastro-Enterostomie.

Wölfler perfected the operation of gastro-enterostomy.

1875 CE

#3467

Gastrostomy for stricture (cancerous?) of oesophagus; death from bronchitis forty days after operation.

Successful human gastrostomy by the older (Sédillot’s) method. Reported by S. Osborne.

1836 CE

#3441

Glückliche Heilung nach Ausscheidung eines Theiles des Darms und Netzes.

First account of a resection in which Lembert’s suture was successfully employed.

1842 CE–1846 CE

#2293

Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 3 vols.

Rokitansky ranks with Morgagni as among the greatest of all writers on gross pathology. He is said to have performed over 30,000 autopsies himself. His Handbuch was for many years pre-eminent among its contemporaries.…

2002 CE

#8476

Helicobacter pioneers: Firsthand accounts from the scientists who discovered helicobacters 1892-1982. Edited by Barry Marshall.

RE the history of this discovery see this Wikipedia timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disease_and_Helicobacter_pylori .

1973 CE

#12652

Hepatitis A: Detection by immune electron microscopy of a viruslike antigen associated with acute illness.

Identification of the Hepatitis A virus.

1929 CE

#3656

Hepato-nephromegalia glykogenika (Glykogenspeicherkrankheit der Leber und Nieren).

“Von Gierke’s disease”, glycogen disease of hepatomegalic type. See also the review by S. van Creveld, Medicine, 1939, 18, 1-128.

1987 CE

#3666.8

Histoire illustrée de l’hépato-gastro-entérologie de l’antiquité à nos jours.

1944 CE

#3664.3

Homologous serum jaundice. Transmission experiments with human volunteers.

1963 CE

#3666.3

Homotransplantation of the liver in humans.

First human liver transplant (three patients; one died during operation, the second after 7.5 days, and the third after 22 days). With five co-authors.

1943 CE

#1041

Human gastric function. An experimental study of a man and his stomach.

Important experiments on gastric function, made on “Tom”, a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9. Second edition in 1947.

1992 CE

#11980

Identification of the uncultured bacillus of Whipple's disease.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Relman, Schmidt, MacDermott....The authors used 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing to identify the bacillus associated with Whipple's disease that had resisted culturing meth…

1967 CE

#3666.5

Infectious hepatitis. Evidence for two distinctive clinical, epidemiological, and immunological types of infection.

With J. P. Giles and J. Hammond.

1857 CE

#3455

Infusorier, sasom intestinaldjur hos menniskan.

Discovery of Balantidium coli, the first parasitic protozoon to be discovered and recognized as such. German translation in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1857, 12, 302-09. English translation in Kean et al. (No. 2268.1).