Legends Of Surgeryさんのイラストまとめ

The Fowler position, used in surgery, was named after Brooklyn surgeon George Ryerson Fowler, who initially described it in April 1900 to treat diffuse septic peritonitis. He also performed the first successful pulmonary decortication on a 35 year old woman in October 1893.

@ulricksidney @kogillil @uncmed2021 @PastMedHistory @AACAnatomy I didn’t realize this, but the ileocecal valve is also known as Bauhin’s valve (Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and anatomist), valve of Varolius (Costanzo Varolio, Italian anatomist) and Tulp’s valve (Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch surgeon)!

I just discovered today that plantar fibromatosis, aka Ledderhose disease, is in fact NOT named after the German leather breeches, but rather after 19th century German surgeon Georg Ledderhose (1855-1925).

The latest episode, on the history of cochlear implants and one of its inventors, Dr. William House, is now available!
#cochlearimplant

On December 6, 1735, surgeon Claudius Amyand performed the first recorded successful appendectomy on an 11 year old boy named Hanvil Anderson. The appendix was trapped in an inguinal hernia, a condition now known as Amyand’s hernia.

Episode 57, the story of the appendix, will be available tonight! A small part of the body, but with a big history!

Ladd’s procedure, to treat midgut volvulus caused by incomplete rotation of gut in the fetus. Involves cutting Ladd’s bands. Described in a apaper in 1936 by surgeon William Ladd.

The Whipple procedure, for removal of the head of the pancreas, named for the surgeon Allen O. Whipple, who performed the first successful one-stage operation in 1940.

A bit late, but the latest podcast, on the history of the surgical stapler, is now available!

Dr. Rudolph Nissen first described his anti-reflux procedure, the Nissen Fundoplication, in 1956, reporting 2 cases in Swiss Medical Weekly