Surgery

The History of Surgeries

By annika.landers

  • First Hip Replacement

    First Hip Replacement
    eHow John Rhea Bartonii performed the first hip replacement. The surgery was sucessful, but years after the surgery the patient lost all motion in the replaced hip.

  • First Sucessful Treatment of a Brain Absess

    First Sucessful Treatment of a Brain Absess
    Pubmed.gov A brain absess is usually originated as a complication depression fracture.

  • First Cornea Transplant

    First Cornea Transplant
    Moorfields Dr Konrad Edward Zirn performed the first cornea transplant in 1905. The transplant patient was Alois Golgar, a worker who suffered burns in both eyes.

  • First Liposuction

    First Liposuction
    Liposuction4YouThe history of liopsuction is very vauge, as many people claim to have invented it. It was (truly) invented by Dr. Charles Dujgrier.

  • First Heart Surgery

    First Heart Surgery
    CirculationDr John Gibbions performed the first sucessful heart surgery. Before then, heart surgeries had been unsucessful.

  • First Weight Loss Surgery

    First Weight Loss Surgery
    Weight Loss SurgeryWeight loss surgery was introduced to the world in 1954 by Dr. AJ Kreman.

  • The First Sucessful Transplant

    The First Sucessful Transplant
    A Science OdessyThe first succesful transplant was a kidney transplant. It was performed by Joseph Murray and J. Hartwell Harrison.

  • First LASTIK Eye Surgery

    First LASTIK Eye Surgery
    SeeWithLASTIKThe first LASTIK eye surgery was performed in Greece. It is performed to correct nearsightedness and farsightedness

  • FIrst Total Ankle Replacement

    FIrst Total Ankle Replacement
    PRWeb Dr. Anand Vora performed the first ankle replacement on September 30th, 2008. This surgery was performed in Lake County, Illinois, on John Wedge, a Lake Villa Resident.

  • First Approved Drug for Skin Cancer

    First Approved Drug for Skin Cancer
    Health In January 2012, the FDA approved Erivedge as the first skin cell cancer medication. It is used to treat skin cell cancer that has spread or is unsuitable for surgical radiation.