Context

Surgery

• Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE) Case 25. Instruction for a dislocation of his mandible. [Original in the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine. Facsimile in Breasted JH (1930).
• Paré A (1575) Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré conseiller, et premier chirurgien du Roy avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'Anatomie que des instruments de Chirurgie, & de plusieurs Monstres……..
• Wiseman R (1676) Eight chirugical treatises.
• Monro A (1737) Remarks on the amputations of the larger extremities. In: Medical essays and observations.
• Cheselden W (1740) The anatomy of the human body. 5th edition.
• Monro A (1752) Remarks on the amputations of the larger extremities. In: Medical essays and observations.
• Faure (1759) Recueil des pieces qui ont concouru pour le prix de L’Académie Royale de Chirurgie Vol 8.
• Hillary W (1761) An inquiry into the means of improving medical knowledge.
• Black W (1782) An historical sketch of medicine and surgery from their origin to the present time.
• Alanson E (1782) Practical observations on amputation, and the after-treatment, 2nd edn.
• Hunter J (1794) A treatise on the blood, inflammation and gun-shot wounds.
• Gordon A (1795) A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen.
• Cooper A (1801) Farther observations on the effects which take place from the destruction of the Membrana Tympani of the ear; with an account of the operation for the removal of a particular species of deafness.
• Guthrie GJ (1815) A treatise on gun-shot wounds.
• Prout WM (1821) An inquiry into the nature and treatment of gravel, calculus and other diseases connected with a deranged operation of the urinary organs.
• Richerand A (1825) Histoire des progrès récens de la chirurgie.
• Yelloly J (1829) Remarks on the tendency to calculous diseases with observations on the nature of urinary concretions.
• Poisson, Dulong, Larrey et Double (1835) Recherches de statistique sur l’affection calculeuse, par M. le docteur Civiale. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie de Sciences.
• Simpson JY (1847) Account of a new anesthetic agent.
• Semmelweis I (1861) Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. [The etiology, concept, and prophylaxis of childbed fever].
• Lister J (1870) Effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital.
• Keith T (1878) Results of ovariotomy before and after antiseptics.
• Hill B (1879) Clinical lectures on stricture of the urethra.
• Kocher T (1883) Ueber Kropfexstirpation und ihre Folgen.
• Reverdin A (1883) Note sur vingt-deux opérations de goitre, avec 3 pl. photographiques. [Note on twenty two operations on goitre. Continuation and conclusion].
• Webster Fox L (1894) Immediate capsulotomy following the removal of cataract.
• Langton J (1899) A discussion of the treatment of hernia in children.
• De Quervain JF (1913) Die Behandlung der akute Appendicitis auf Grund einer schweizerischen Sammelstatistik.
• Codman EA (1916) A study in hospital efficiency.
• Johnston RA, Siddall RS (1922) Is the usual method of preparing patients for delivery beneficial or necessary?
• Moir JC (1925) Comparison of the narcotic effects of the two hyoscines (scopolomaines).
• Hediger E, Gold H (1935) USP ether from large drums and ether from can labeled ‘For Anesthesia’.
• Middleton DS (1936) Tea for burns or scalds in the home.
• Gaudin HJ, Zide HA, Thompson GJ (1938) Use of sulfanilamide after transurethral prostatectomy.
• Pulvertaft RJPV (1943) Local therapy of war wounds.
• Florey ME, Williams REO (1944) Hand infections treated with penicillin.
• Gunther M (1945) Sore nipples - causes and prevention.
• Furber Murphy A (1947) Treatment of acute mastitis.
• Mitchell GAG (1947) The value of penicillin in surgery.
• Elovainio E, Östling G (1948) Observations on preoperative treatment with strophanthin.
• Harrison SH, Topley E, Lennard-Jones J (1949) The value of systemic penicillin in finger pulp infections: a controlled trial of 169 cases.
• Stjernswärd J (1974) Decreased survival related to irradiation postoperatively in early breast cancer.
• Bunker JP, Barnes BA, Mosteller F (1977) Costs, risks and benefits of surgery.
• Cochran WG, Diaconis P, Donner AP, Hoaglin DC, O’Connor NE, Peterson OL, Rosenoer VM (1977) Experiments in surgical treatments of duodenal ulcer.
• Baum ML, Anish DS, Chalmers TC, Sacks HS, Smith H, Fagerstrom RM (1981) A survey of clinical trials of antibiotic prophylaxis in colon surgery: Evidence against further use of no-treatment controls.
• Himel HN, Liberati A, Gelber RD, Chalmers TC (1986) Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: A pooled estimate based on results from published randomized control trials.
• Chalmers I, Enkin M, Keirse MJNC (1989) Effective care in pregnancy and childbirth.