Legends Of Surgeryさんのイラストまとめ

The rongeur, a surgical instrument used for nibbling away at bone, comes from the French word for rodent! The first recorded design was by an English surgeon, Dr. Robert Masters Kerrison (1776-1847)

German surgeon & pathologist Max Wilms (1867-1918) published “Mixed Tumours of the Kidney” in 1899, described nephroblastoma and its origin, now known as Wilms tumour. He contracted diphtheria during emergency tracheotomy on a French POW during WW I. His patient survived.

The cloaca, in embryology, develops into the genitourinary system and rectum. A “persistent cloaca” is a birth defect where the rectum, vagina and urinary tract fuse into a common channel, requiring surgery. Cloaca is Latin for sewer. The Cloaca Maxima still exists in Rome!

The Ancient Romans were famous for their lead plumbing used to bring in fresh water and flushing away waste (Latin plumbum meant lead, giving us plumbing, and Pb, symbol for lead), but did you know that the Latin word for pipe is fistula?

Seishū Hanaoka (1760-1835), a Japanese surgeon, developed a herbal concoction he called tsusensan, which allowed him to remove a breast tumour from a patient on October 13, 1804. The Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists have a Datura flower in their emblem in honour of this.

Adson’s forceps are named after American surgeon Alfred Washington Adson (1887-1951). He worked at the Mayo Clinic, where he helped develop the neurosurgery department. Adson also described a manoeuvre to identify patients with thoracic outlet syndrome!

The latest podcast episode covers thoracic outlet syndrome, where either the brachial plexus (nerves) or subclavian vessels (vein or artery) are compressed, causing symptoms.

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).