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Evolution of Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Joint Innervation Studies

Explore the contributions of key historical figures like Albrecht Wilhelm and Nicolaus Rüdinger to joint innervation studies of upper extremities. Delve into visionary Themistocles Gluck's innovations in replacement surgery and Ernst von Bergmann's legacy in surgical leadership and ethics.

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Evolution of Surgery: Historical Perspectives on Joint Innervation Studies

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  1. Report of the Historian Andreas Gohritz FESSH Council Meeting December 5-6th, 2009, Firenze

  2. Histories of national societiesof surgery of the hand • New contributions: • Spain (Marc Garcia-Elias) • Poland ( Congress 2009) • Russia (Igor Goloubev) • 4. Turkey (Ayan Gülgönen)

  3. Joint denervation • Upper extremity • Shoulder • Elbow • Wrist • Finger joints • Thumb joints • Lower extremity • Knee • Sinus tarsi Lee A. Dellon

  4. Albrecht Wilhelm (*1925) Ulrich Lanz Titus von Lanz Albrecht Wilhelm 1955-58: Studies on the joint innervation of the upper extremity Anatomische Anstalt in Munich

  5. Nicolaus Rüdinger (*1832 +1896) Barber, Surgeon, Anatomist Munich, Germany • 1st Photographical Atlas in Anatomy (1871) • Embalmed Ludwig II (1888)

  6. “The Joint Nerves of the Human Body“ (1847) “ there is only here and there mention of nerve branches going to a joint …“

  7. Themistocles Gluck (*1853 +1942) an early visionary ofreplacement surgery

  8. Glucks innovations • Nerve sutures / tubes • Joint prosthesis • Shoulder / Wrist • Knee / Ankle • Biocompatibility / Allografts • Experimental animal surgery • Organ resection / substituion • Surgery of the larynx • Vessel surgery (before Carrel) • Anticoagulation (leech extract)

  9. Ernst von Bergmann (*1836 +1907) Chair of Surgery Charité 1882-1907 “ As the leader of German Surgery I cannot allow you to discredit it … and most strictly forbid you …“ (Letter to Gluck, World Con- gress of Surgery, Berlin1890)

  10. On the potential influence of one-handedness on politics and philosophy of the 20th century J Hand Surg A July-Aug 2009 (Letter) Ludwig (philosopher), Paul Wittgenstein (pianist) Wilhelm II (left Erbs palsy) „An English-man has crippled my arm“ “1. If you do know there is a hand, we'll grant you all the rest. 2. From its seeming to me, or to anyone, to be so, it doesn't follow that it is so.” (On Certainty, 1951)

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