Story Of Surgery Research Articles

Silent Night: A Story of Surgery on Christmas Eve.

Silent Night: A Story of Surgery on Christmas Eve.

A Review of HIV and Surgery in Africa.

HIV has a significant impact on surgery in Africa. Its’ influence has spanned a period of about 30 years. In the 1980s' Africa experienced a rise in the national prevalence of HIV spreading across East Africa through Southern Africa, and reaching peak prevalence in the Southern African region. These prevalence levels have affected four key areas of surgical practice; namely patient care, practice of surgery, surgical pathologies, the practitioner and more recently prevention. The surgical patient is more likely to be HIV positive in Africa, than elsewhere in the world. The patients are also more likely to have co infection with Hepatitis C or B and are unlikely to be aware of his or her HIV status. Surgical patients are also more likely to have impaired liver and renal function at the time of presentation. Therefore, HIV has affected the pattern of surgical pathologies, by influencing disease presentation, diagnosis, management and outcomes. It has also influenced the surgeon by increasing occupational risk and management of that risk. Recently in an ironic change of roles, surgery has impacted HIV prevention through the role of male circumcision as a significant tool in HIV prevention, which has traditionally focused on behavioural interventions. The story of surgery and HIV continues to unfold on the continent. Ultimately presenting a challenge which requires innovation, dedication and hard work in the already resource limited environments of Africa.

Joseph Constantine Carpue and the Bicentennial of the Birth of Modern Plastic Surgery.

September 2014 marked the bicentennial of the birth of modern plastic surgery. It was then that Carpue began a prospective observational study of nasal reconstruction that culminated in his 1816 monograph, which caused an explosion of interest in reconstructive surgery throughout Europe. In conducting his study, Carpue demonstrated ethical standards and the power of planning a procedure. His methods to document his results accurately would remain unsurpassed until photography was adopted at the end of the 19th century. Carpue took an apocryphal story of surgery performed in India more than twenty years earlier and transformed it into the beginning of modern plastic surgery. He succeeded in a number of unrecognized tasks that are themselves landmarks not only in plastic surgical history, but surgical history: devising the first prospective observational study, using exclusion criteria, maintaining appropriate patient confidentiality, setting a standard for preoperative disclosure and ethical approval over a century before these measures were codified, having independent documentation of his preoperative and postoperative findings, devising a method to objectively monitor and document the forehead flap, and describing the potential value of tissue expansion. He shared his experience by publishing his results and by lecturing in Europe. His contemporaries recognized him for his contributions and he was honored by election to the Royal Society. Carpue launched the modern era of plastic surgery in an ethical, logical, and objective manner. While plastic surgery has changed in the last two centuries, the principles that Carpue followed remain valid.

The Story of Surgery: An Historical Commentary (review)

The Story of Surgery: An Historical Commentary (review)

War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (review)

War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (review)

From Athens to Rome: the story of surgery of the hand

From Athens to Rome: the story of surgery of the hand

La Chirurgie Moderne: ses Debuts en Occident: XVIe-XVIIe-XVIIIe Siecles

This is a luxury book—beautiful typography, on excellent paper, lavishly illustrated and well bound, and in a limited edition of only 3,000 copies. It would make a handsome gift book. As history, however, it is rather sketchy. The first volume in this series told the story of surgery from the fifth to the 15th centuries. This volume presents surgery in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Yet there are only 118 pages of text to tell this story, and the text fairly bristles with names—often more than 20 per page. The narrative portions are rather thin, disclosing various operations, procedures, and instruments; telling who was the first to do this or that; and who did what and when. It narrates some of the medical problems of the era, but is not strong in presenting any overall development of thought during the three centuries in question, or integrating surgery with the

SURGICAL AND NONSURGICAL CARE OF THE CHRONICALLY DISCHARGING MIDDLE EAR

A cure for chronic discharge from the ears has been sought throughout the ages. The ancients Hippocrates 1 (460 B. C.) and Celsus 2 (30 B. C.) frequently mentioned aural suppuration and warned of the dangers which arise therefrom. In spite of these early observations, it was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that any scientific knowledge concerning the ears and their treatment was recorded. A possible reason for the long neglect of this subject by medical men is given by Harvey Graham in his Story of Surgery, in which he tells of an Englishman, John of Gaddesden, 3 born in 1280, who vaguely mentioned certain diseases of the ear and recommended that all morbid material in the ears be sucked out through a tube. Graham then added, small wonder that surgeons of succeeding centuries, tough stomached though they were, left their patients' ears to the quacks.? Eustachius 4 in the

Graham, Harvey. The Story of Surgery. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1939. 425 p. $3.75

Graham, Harvey. The Story of Surgery. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1939. 425 p. $3.75

The Story of Surgery

The Story of Surgery

The Story of Surgery

The Story of Surgery

The Story of Surgery

The Story of Surgery