Legends Of Surgeryさんのイラストまとめ

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

Surgeon Charles McBurney published 2 papers, in 1889 and 1891, describing what are now called ‘McBurney’s point’ (site of max tenderness in appendicitis) and ‘McBurney’s incision’ (used for appendectomy, also known as grid-iron, muscle splitting).

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.

Jacopo Berengario Da Carpi, an Italian physician and anatomist, was the first to describe the appendix, in 1521. He published his influential work ‘Anatomia carpi’ in 1535.

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!

"I think your solution is just, but why think? Why not try the experiment?" John Hunter to Edward Jenner, later inventor of smallpox vaccine

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