Facets

1884 CE

#3482

Intestinal obstruction

Jacksonian Prize essay.

1867 CE

#3462

Intestinal obstruction.

1882 CE

#3477

Intorno alla divulsione digitale del pilore; osservazione cliniche.

First pyloroplasty, 1882. Abstract in English in Brit. med.J., 1885, 1, 372-74.

1931 CE

#3145.1

Intravenous use of extract of liver.

1989 CE

#12653

Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome.

In this paper Houghton and colleagues named “hepatitis C” for the first time. They cloned and isolated the viral RNA genome and demonstrated that a patient who had high antibodies to a ‘native/wild s…

1877 CE

#630

K voprosu o perevyazkie vorotnoi veni. Predvaritelnoye soobshtshenize. [On the ligature of the portal vein.]

Eck developed the “Eck fistula” for the experimental study of diseases of the liver and the relation of the liver to metabolism. English translation in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1953, 96, 375.

1892 CE

#3634

Klinik der Cholelithiasis.

Naunyn produced a classic monograph on gall-stones, devising an accurate chemical classification. He was one of Frerichs’s best pupils and became Professor of Clinical Medicine successively at Dorpat, Berne, K&o…

1858 CE–1861 CE

#3620

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. 2 vols. and atlas.

Frerichs’s classic monograph on diseases of the liver summarized the existing knowledge and included his own important work on the subject. He discovered leucine and tyrosine in the liver in acute yellow atrophy…

1861 CE

#4693

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.

Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).

1879 CE–1902 CE

#3471

Klinik der Verdauungskrankheiten. 3 vols.

An important work on disorders of digestion. With Boas, Ewald devised the test breakfast and he utilized intubation for exploring the contents of the stomach. English translation of vols. 1-2, 1891-92.

1951 CE

#2725.1

La visualizzazione radiologica della porta pervia splenica.

Introduction of portal venography for investigation of portal hypertension.

1913 CE

#1031

Le mouvement de l’intestin en circulation artificielle (chez les vertébrés). Thèses présentées a la Faculté des sciences de Paris.

Cinematographic studies of the movements of the intestines in animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE–1856 CE

#615

Leçons de physiologie expérimentale appliquée à la médecine. 2 vols.

Claude Bernard made strenuous efforts to introduce experimental methods into physiology. The above includes his classic work on the function of the liver, pancreas, and gastric glands. Vol. 1, p. 126: Catheterization …

1928 CE–1941 CE

#1445

Lectures on conditioned reflexes. 2 vols.

Besides his work on digestion, Pavlov is remembered for his investigations upon conditioned reflexes. An English translation of another work by Pavlov, entitled Conditioned reflexes, appeared in 1927.

1897 CE

#1022

Lektsii o rabotie glavnikh pishtshevaritelnikh zhelyoz. [Lectures on the work of the principal digestive glands.]

Pavlov's classic study of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments. The second published edition was a German trans…

1996 CE

#9299

Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.

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…

1813 CE

#985.1

Mémoire sur l’usage de l’epiglotte dans la déglutition …

Magendie showed that the epiglottis is not necessary for swallowing, which disproved the accepted doctrine that the epiglottis was necessary to cover the glottis to prevent food from entering the trachea.

1856 CE

#1000.1

Mémoire sur le pancréas et sur le rôle du sue pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs.

The most beautifully illustrated of all Bernard’s writings, which summed up the results of his work on the role of the pancreas in digestion. English translation as Memoir on the pancreas, and on the role of pan…

1813 CE

#985

Mémoire sur le vomissement.

Physiologists still consult Magendie’s classic description of the physiology of deglutition and vomiting. Magendie proved, against the current theory of Haller, that the stomach was passive rather than active in…

1859 CE

#1002

Mémoire sur un point d’anatomie pathologique relatif à l’histoire de la cirrhose.

“Sappey’s veins” in the falciform ligament of the liver.

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.

1894 CE

#1019

Neue Versuche liber die Aufsaugung im Dunndarm.

1851 CE

#998

Neue Versuche über die Beihilfe der Nerven zur Speichelabsonderung.

The innervation of the salivary glands first elucidated.

1886 CE

#3485

Neurasthénie et enteroptose.

Splanchnoptosis (“Glénard’s disease”).

1855 CE

#3453

Note sur l’emploi du chlorate de potasse dans le traitement de la stomatite ulcéreuse.

Classic description of ulcero-membranous stomatitis and its treatment.

1707 CE

#8938

Noticias do que he o achaque do bicho, diffiniçam do seu crestame[n]to, subimento corrupçaõ, sinaes, & cura atè, o quinto grao, ou intensaõ delle, suas differenças, & co[m]plicaços, com que se ajunta.

This book has been "considered by some authors to be the first reference to the chagasic megaesophagus and megacolon that appeared in history. In descriptions considered to refer megaesophagus, although dysphagia, the…

1858 CE

#999.1

Nouvelles recherches expérimentales sur les phénomènes glycogéniques du foie.

Isolation of glycogen. See also C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1857, 44, 578-86, 1325-31.

1881 CE

#1014

Nuovo metodo per avere il succo enterico puro, e stabilime le proprietà fisiologiche.

1876 CE

#3468

Observation de gastro-stomie pratiquée avec succès pour un rétrécissement cicatriciel infranchissable de l’oesophage.

Verneuil’s gastrostomy operation, a modification of Sédillot’s method.

1662 CE

#1543

Observationes anatomicae, quibus varia oris, oculorum & narium vas describuntur novique salivae, lacrymarum & muci fontes deteguntur.

Includes the first account of the excretory duct of the parotid gland (“Stensen’s duct”), discovered by Stensen. He first reported his discovery in a letter to his teacher, Thomas Bartholin, dated Ap…

1936 CE

#1086.1

Observations on a substance in pancreas (a fat metabolizing hormone) which permits survival and prevents liver changes in depancreatized dogs.

Lipocaic. With J. Van Prohaska and H. P. Harms.

1836 CE

#3617

Observations on jaundice.

Original description of acute yellow atrophy of the liver.

1759 CE

#1770

Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados.

Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue (celiac disease).

1782 CE

#1835

Observations on the medical uses of the oleum jecoris aselli, or cod liver oil, in the chronic rheumatism, and other painful disorders.

First record of the clinical use of cod liver oil in England.

1881 CE

#3474

Offenes Schreiben an Herrn Dr. L. Wittelshöfer.

First successful resection of the pylorus for cancer, the Billroth I operation.

1885 CE

#3482.3

On a case of acute intestinal obstruction in a boy, with remarks upon the treatment of acute obstruction.

Abdominal section and ileostomy for intestinal obstruction; surgeon’s report on pp. 130-35.

1881 CE

#3479

On a case of obstruction of the bowels due to volvulus, treated by abdominal section; recovery.

First successful operation in Britain for treatment of volvulus, performed 20 February, 1883.

1892 CE

#3503

On achylia gastrica.

Einhorn introduced the concept of achylia gastrica, to indicate a primary nervous functional disorder of the gastric secretion.

1842 CE

#3445

On acute ulceration of the duodenum, in cases of burn.

“Curling’s ulcer”. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it.

1939 CE

#3664

On aspiration biopsy of the liver, with remarks on its diagnostic significance.

Modern method of liver puncture.

1893 CE

#3510

On diseases of the duodenum.

A careful examination of the records of post mortems carried out at Guy’s Hospital, 1826-92, was made by Perry and Shaw, who showed that of 70 reports of duodenal ulcer, ten occurred in cases of severe burns.

1845 CE

#3619

On diseases of the liver.

Budd was Professor of Medicine at King’s College, London. Section III of the above book includes a description of that form of cirrhosis to which the name “Budd’s disease” has been applied. In …

1908 CE

#3528

On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.

“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).

1888 CE

#3491

On the coeliac affection.

Coeliac disease (non-tropical sprue, idiopathic steatorrhoea) was first described by Gee. Later Thaysen (No. 3550) studied the disease, which acquired the eponym “Gee-Thaysen disease”.

1848 CE–1849 CE

#3450

On the existence of Entophyta in healthy animals, as a natural condition.

Discovery of the bacterial flora of the intestines.

1824 CE

#987

On the nature of the acid and saline matters usually existing in the stomachs of animals.

Proof that the gastric juice contains free hydrochloric acid.

1857 CE

#3454

On the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of ulcer of the stomach.

A comprehensive account of peptic (duodenal) ulcer; includes a review of the results of more than 7,000 post mortems.

1899 CE

#1023

On the topographical anatomy of abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastrointestinal canal.

“Addison’s transpyloric plane”. Addison was Britain’s first Minister of Health (1919-21).

1959 CE

#3666.2

One-stage homotransplantation of the liver following total hepatectomy in dogs.

With nine co-authors.