Anatomists throughout history have worked to discover new angles of approach to the human body in order to reach the fullest understanding of its complexities. In this symposium, our four speakers endeavor to do the same, coming from different…
On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. John Collins Warren performed the first public operation on a patient under ether anesthesia administered by dentist William T. G. Morton. Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow witnessed the event and…
List of patients who have inhaled ether or chloroform for surgical operations in the Massachusetts General Hospital up to April 1, 1848, furnished by H. J. Bigelow, M.D.
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), page 351, and Fractures of the bones of the extremities by the same author, plate 29
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 3
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 7
After J. Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 1, figure 6
After John Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 1, figure 5
Probably after Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, Charles Phillips's Die subcutane Durchschneidung der Sehnen, oder, Die Operationen, welche zur Heilung der Klumpf
After Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, Charles Phillips's Die subcutane Durchschneidung der Sehnen, oder, Die Operationen, welche zur Heilung der Klumpf
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 139, 146, 148, 134, 147, and 150
After Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, page 24, and Jean Marc Baptiste Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, plates H, J, and L