Facets

1899 CE

#5641

De l’emploi du masque dans les opérations.

Introduction of the gauze face mask, October 1897.

1880 CE

#2492.1

De l’extension de la théorie des germes à l’étiologie de quelques maladies communes.

In this study of furunculosis (“boils”) and osteomyelitis Pasteur left the first recognizable descriptions of staphylococcus and streptococcus. The term streptococcus had been coined by Billroth in 1874; h…

1851 CE

#5600

De l’influence de la position dans les maladies chirurgicales.

1828 CE

#4315

De l’orthomorphie. 2 vols. and atlas.

Delpech, Professor of Surgery at Montpellier, published a comprehensive treatise on deformities of the bones and joints. He established the tuberculous nature of Pott’s disease. Delpech did more than any other m…

1890 CE

#4354

De l’ostéo-arthropathie hypertrophiante pneumonique.

Original description of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, sometimes called “Bamberger–Marie disease”.

1916 CE

#4885

De la causalgie envisagée comme une névrite du sympathique et de son traitement par la dénudation et l’excision des plexus nerveux périartériels.

Periarterial sympathectomy.

1875 CE

#5612

De la forcipressure.

Introduction of forcipressure in the control of hemorrhage. Republished in book form, 1875.

1892 CE

#3504

De la gastro-duodénostomie.

Introduction of gastroduodenostomy.

1893 CE

#3509

De la gastrostomie par la méthode de la valvule ou du plissement de la muqueuse stomacale.

Pénières of Toulouse conceived the idea of the valvular method of gastrostomy.

1872 CE

#4339.2

De la périarthrite scapulo-humérale et des raideurs de l’épaule qui en sont la conséquence.

“Frozen shoulder” syndrome described.

1892 CE

#4362

De la pseudo-paralysie générale arthritique.

First description of “Klippel’s disease”, arthritic general pseudoparalysis.

1940 CE

#3040

De la résection du carrefour aortico-iliaque avec double sympathectomie lombaire pour thrombose artéritique de l’aorte; le syndrome de l’oblitération termino-aortique par artérite.

Obliteration of the abdominal aorta.

1831 CE

#4317

De la rétraction des doigts par suite d’une affection de l’aponévrose palmaire, opération chirurgicale qui convient dans ce cas.

Dupuytren devised an operation for the treatment of contracture of the palmar fascia (“Dupuytren’s contracture”). Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 127-50. The condition was fir…

1478 CE

#20

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus&rsq…

1730 CE

#3421

De motus hemorrhoidalis, et fluxus hemorrhoidum.

An early work specifically on hemorrhoids.

1742 CE

#3423

De mutuo intestinorum ingressu.

First recorded successful operation for intussusception in an adult. The paper is also included in Haller’s Disputationes, vol. 1.

1661 CE

#5645.90

De nivis usu medico observationes variae…

The first work after Avicenna to discuss the use of snow as an anesthetic.

1857 CE

#3456

De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.

First operation for tumor of the esophagus.

1817 CE

#4310

De rachitide congenita.

Classic description of achondroplasia. Romberg’s graduation thesis. English translation (Sydenham Society), 1853.

1650 CE

#3729

De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgo The Rickets dicitur tractatus.

Although anticipated by Whistler and others in the description of infantile rickets, Glisson’s account was the fullest that had till then appeared. He was first (Chap. 22) to describe infantile scurvy. Glisson&r…

1616 CE

#2143

De rara medicatione vulnerum.

Like Paré, Magati believed that gunshot wounds were not in themselves poisonous. He suggested a bandage moistened with plain water in place of the various salves then in vogue.

1632 CE

#2273

De recondita abscessuum natura.

The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats of all kinds of swelling under the term “abscess” and describes neoplasms of the genital organs and sarcoma of bones. Tumors of the breast are classified…

1554 CE

#23

De vesicae renumque morbis. De purgantibus medicamentis. De partibus corporis humani...

First printed edition in Greek, edited by Jacques Goupyl. Rufus was a Greek physician who lived during the rule of Trajan. He wrote wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. His De partibus c…

1552 CE

#2139.1

De vulnerum sclopetorum et bombardarum curatione tractatus.

In this very early work on gunshot wounds Maggi, Professor of Surgery at Bologna, showed that not all gunshot wounds suppurated and he discarded cauterization, treating such wounds with white of egg and salt water.

2012 CE

#10345

Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.

1855 CE

#1742

Deformities after fractures.

Hamilton was a medical inspector of the U.S. Army and later became Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital. See No. 4420.

1896 CE

#4366

Deformities: A treatise on orthopaedic surgery.

Includes a valuable discussion of congenital anomalies of the bones and joints from the orthopedic point of view. Greatly expanded second edition, 2 vols., London, 1912.

1804 CE

#5736

Degli innesti animali.

Baronio was among the first to attempt transplantation and experimental surgery in animals. He successfully carried out full-thickness skin grafts after detachment from the body, and the first purely scientific resear…

1857 CE

#4466

Dell’amputazione del femore al terzo inferiore e della disarticulazione del ginocchio.

Gritti’s amputation of the thigh was later improved by Stokes (see No. 4470).

1888 CE

#2620.2

Demonstration der durch Impfung von Hund auf Hund erzeugten Carcinomknötchen.

A tumor transplant from dog to dog was reported by Wehr.

1589 CE–1591 CE

#8466

Der Bücher und Schriften des Edlen, Hochgelehrten und Bewehrten Philosophi und Medici, Philipi Thephrasti Bombast von Hohen hem, Paracelsi genannt. Edited by Johannes Huser. 10 vols.

First edition of Paracelsus's collected works. Though all the autographs of Paracelsus's writings were later lost, Huber, who was born shortly after Paracelsus's death, was able to collect a great number of autographs…

1861 CE–1867 CE

#2968

Der erste Fall von erfolgreicher Unterbindung der Art. hepatica propria gegen Aneurysma.

Successful ligation of the hepatic artery.

1882 CE

#5618

Der Jodoform-Verband.

Introduction of iodoform dressing in surgery.

1935 CE

#4400.5

Der Schenkelhalsbruch, Ein mechanische Problem.

Pioneering study of the biomechanics of the hip joint.

1869 CE

#11144

Des difformités congénitales et acquises des doigts et des moyens d’y remédier. Thèse présentée au concours pour l’agrégation (section de chirurgie).

This exceptionally long and comprehensive (246pp., 39 text illustrations) thesis was the first French work on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1894 CE

#4364.1

Des moyens prothétiques destinés à obtenir la réparation des parties osseuses.

Total prosthetic replacement of shoulder (p. 291) using an artificial joint made of hardened rubber and platinum. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 443-46.

1895 CE

#4473

Désarticulation de l’os iliaque pour sarcome.

First successful hind-quarter amputation.

1788 CE

#4305

Description de plusieurs nouveaux moyens mécaniques propres à prevénir, borner et même corriger dans certains cas les courbures latérales et la torsion de l’épine du dos.

Venel stressed the necessity for prolonged periods of recumbency, rather than exercise, in the correction of spinal curvature. He invented a corset and extension bed for treating spinal deformities. His extension bed …

1828 CE

#3255

Description of a forceps, employed to facilitate the extirpation of the tonsil.

Invention of the modern tonsillotome.

1867 CE

#5668

Description of a new apparatus for administering narcotic vapors.

Junker’s chloroform inhaler.

1873 CE

#5671

Description of a new double current inhaler for administering ether.

Clover’s gas-ether inhaler.

1858 CE

#3457

Description of the operation of gastrotomy.

First gastrostomy in Britain.

1766 CE

#7808

Descrizione degl'instrumenti, delle macchine, e delle suppellettili raccolte ad uso chirurgico e medico dal P. Don Ippolito Rondinelli...

Catalogue of the private museum of surgical and medical instruments established by Father Ippolito Rondinelli in Ravenna, which Soldo described as “the first museum of medicine and surgery.” Extensively il…

1573 CE

#534.51

Deux livres de chirurgie. I. De la generation de l’homme… II. Des monstres tant terrestres que marins avec leurs portraits.

Many reports of real malformations are intermixed with mythical accounts. English translations, 1634, and later. Recent English translation, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982. Digital facsimile of the 1573 ed…

1951 CE

#12229

Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.

Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged ot…

1922 CE

#7832

Di un raro caso di osteite simmetrica ereditaria degli arti inferior.

"Camurati-Engelmann disease", a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that causes characteristic anomalies in the skeleton. It is a form of dysplasia. See No. 4395.1.

1916 CE

#4910

Diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes.

Elsberg, American pioneer in neurosurgery, made valuable contributions to the surgery of the spinal cord. on tumours of the cord in 1925. His final work was Surgical diseases of the spinal cord, membranes, and nerve r…

1847 CE

#5659.1

Die Aether gegen den Schmerz.

First application of ether anesthesia for plastic operations. Dieffenbach made his first use of the anesthetic in reconstructing a nose. He modified Morton’s inhaler. Dieffenbach’s work helped bring about …

1861 CE

#6277

Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers.

Semmelweis, who earlier had shown puerperal fever to be a septicemia, strove to improve conditions in the lying-in wards of Vienna and Budapest. Misunderstood and maligned by many, he eventually published this book in…

1968 CE

#8406

Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.