On the claims of priority in the exsection and disarticulation of the lower jaw : with an appendix containing the report of several operations performed / by Geo. C. Blackman.

  • Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871.
Date:
1852
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Credit: On the claims of priority in the exsection and disarticulation of the lower jaw : with an appendix containing the report of several operations performed / by Geo. C. Blackman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE CLAIMS OF PRIORITY IN THE EXSECTIOI & DISARTICULATION OF THE LOWER JAW. Although nearly half a century has passed since Dr. Deadrick, of Tennessee, excised a portion of the lower jaw, and though some twenty-one years have elapsed since the publication of JET ^details^in one of the leading- medical Journals of this country, we observe that surgical writers are still almost constantly guilty of misstatements whenever they attempt to give the history of this operation. We believe that no surgeon on the continent of Eu¬ rope has ever done justice to the claims of Dr. Deadrick, but in Great Britain they have, at l/ast, been most honorably acknow¬ ledged. (Vid. South’s Chelius, vol. iii. p. 745.) The profession in this country have doubtless seen with surprise the attempt lately made by an American Professor of Surgery, to surrender the honor so justly due to American surgery. We think this Pro¬ fessor would blush to own his ignorance of the existence of such a publication as the “ American Medical Recorder ” and we know not what apology he can offer for the erroneous statements con¬ tained m the following extract from his report of an operation which he performed, for the removal of the entire lower jaw, published in the January number of the New-York Journal of Medicine: “ To Gupuytren was reserved the glory of having, in 1812, first removed, by a methodical operation, a portion of the body of the inferior maxilla; but since the innovation of the celebrated French surgeon, (the italics are our own,) the operation for the partial ex¬ section of this bone has been repeatedly performed.”