Surgery
Shameemah Abrahams
Cynthia J. Avila
The art of surgery: ‘surgical theatrics’ on the surgeon’s stage
Arpan K. Banerjee
Samuel Solly—distinguished surgeon and educator
Mahmood Bhutta
Robert Biggar
Evidence versus practice: the story of surgery in breast cancer
Julius Bonello and S. Ayesha Hasan
It is good to be the king: the French surgical revolution
Julius Bonello and George E. Tsourdinis
Howard Kelly’s avant-garde autopsy method
Margareta-Erminia Cassani
Blood under the moon: the role of astrology in surgery
Neha Chauhan
Of honors lost and honor regained: Indian origin of plastic surgery
Ryan Cohen
Rhinoplasty and the roosari from ancient Persia to modern day Iran
George Dunea
Joseph Lister and the story of antiseptic surgery
Fabricius Hildanus – father of German surgery
Dominique-Jean Larrey, Napoleon’s army surgeon (1766-1842)
Sir James Paget
Loyal Davis (1896 – 1982)
William Stewart Halsted (1852-1920)
Karl A. Meyer (1888-1972)
Sir Astley Cooper: the surgeon’s surgeon
Campbell de Morgan (1811-1876)
Robert Liston – the fastest knife in town
James Syme, the Napoleon of surgery (1799–1870)
William Cheselden, father of modern British surgery
Jean Mery, distinguished French surgeon
The times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, founder of plastic surgery
Theodor Kocher (1841-1917)
Abraham Colles—giant among surgeons
James L. Franklin
Denis Gill
John Graham-Pole
Patrick Guinan and George Dunea
JB Murphy: Chicago’s great but controversial surgeon
Lila Haile
Anne Jacobson
Christmas with Dupuytren and Lisfranc
Zeynel A. Karcioglu
Violet Kieu
Isabel Legarda
Olena Lupalo
Pursuit of immortality: Dr. Amosov
Iain Macintyre
Thomas Keith; pioneer photographer and pioneer surgeon
Fadlurrahman Manaf
Abulcasis, the pharmacist surgeon
Homini Verminoso who created “Orthopaedia”
Michael Meguid
JMS Pearce
Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter (1872-1939)
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes
John Raffensperger
Hippocrates, abortion, and cutting for stone
The surgery of pyloric stenosis in Chicago
Potts and Pott
Harvey Cushing: Surgeon, Author, Soldier, Historian 1869-1939
Conjoined twins: art, ethics, and the media
Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie: William James Mayo, (1861-1938) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939) new
Damiano Rondelli
The early days in the history of appendectomy
Tyler B. Rouse
The brief and strange history of mesmerism and surgery
Subramoniam Rangaswami
Sukanya Sam
Locard’s principle and the surgeon
Satish Saroshe
Sushruta: the ancient Indian surgeon
Annabelle Slingerland & Leon Lacquet
Ferdinand Sauerbruch, father of thoracic surgery
Linda S. Slusser
Thomas Dent Mütter: innovative surgeon and teacher
Earl C. Smith
Samuel Spencer
Banishing that dread of being cut
Mahala Yates Stripling
Richard Selzer’s last grand rounds at Yale
Impostor syndrome: Richard Selzer’s life of doubt
Rumen Vodenicharov
Nikolay Pirogov, the knight of virtuous deeds
Judith Wagner
René G. Favaloro: one world is not enough
Mildred Wilson
Ambroise Pare: standard bearer for barber-surgery reform
Frank A. Wollheim
Surgeon and ambassador of the humanities: homage à Grace and Philip Sandblom
Larry Zaroff
Vignettes
John of Arderne, founder of English surgery
Konrad Langenbeck 1776-1851
Preparation for surgery
Primitive surgery
The village surgeon
Lucas van Leyden: ear surgery
Up to date orthopedics
Sawing to the bone
Georg Bartisch, early Renaissance eye-surgeon
William Morton first demonstrates the use of ether anesthesia
Saints Damien and Comas removing a bullet from a man’s chest
Ambroise Paré shown amputating a leg on the battlefield
Amputations
