The_Invention_of_Surgery

The opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds, coloured zincogra ...

Humphry Davy (1778–1829), pioneering chemist, the father of electrochemistry, and the discoverer of nitrous oxide, laughing gas. ...

Crawford Long (1815–1878), Georgia physician and the first to use ether anesthesia. Portrait of Crawford Long, Wellcome Collecti ...

Massachusetts General Hospital at the very beginning, with the Ether Dome at the top of the hospital. Image of Massachusetts Gen ...

Horace Wells (1815–1848), Boston dentist who pioneered the use of ether in dentistry. Portrait of Horace Wells, photograph of re ...

William T. G. Morton (1819–1868), American dentist who first demonstrated ether anesthesia on October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts ...

Charles Thomas Jackson (1805–1880), Harvard physician who was critical in the development of ether anesthesia. From Wikimedia Co ...

John Collins Warren (1778–1856), founder (and dean) of Harvard Medical School and chief of surgery. At the conclusion of the fir ...

James Simpson (1811–1870), Edinburgh physician and the first to use chloroform anesthesia. Portrait of Sir James Young Simpson, ...

James Snow (1813–1858), father of epidemiology and England’s first anesthesiologist. Portrait by John Snow, 1856, Wellcome Colle ...

Bernhard von Langenbeck (1810–1887), legendary German surgeon, founder of surgical residency, and mentor to generations of impor ...

Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), world’s first abdominal surgeon, courageous and occasionally successful in a time that perilous ab ...

Themistocles Gluck (1853–1942), Romanian-German surgeon who performed first joint replacement in the world in 1890, with endopro ...

Diagram of Gluck’s ivory implants (1890). From Gluck, Themistocles (Themistokles): Referat über die durch das moderne chirurgisc ...

The shoulder implant of Pean, located at the Smithsonian Institution. From Artificial shoulder joint by Pean (1893): The facts o ...

Smith-Petersen-type cup arthroplasty that set the stage for all modern joint replacement. Smith- Peterson-type [sic] acetabular ...

Smith-Petersen mold arthroplasties in the first decade. From Smith-Petersen M.N., Arthroplasty of the Hip, J Bone Joint Surg, 19 ...

McBride’s doorknob prosthesis, the harbinger of all future intra-medullary implants. From McBride, Earl D., A Femoral Head prost ...

Dalkon Shield, the disastrous intrauterine implant. Photo by Jamie Chung; IUD courtesy of Dittrick Medical History Center and Mu ...

Electrical conduction pathway in the human heart. From Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator; C. Carl Jaffe, M.D., cardiologist, ...