An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

POST, Philip Wright

2 entries
  • 2934

A case of carotid aneurism successfully treated.

Amer. med. phil. Reg., 4, 366-77, 1814.

Post, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at Columbia College, New York, was the first in America to ligate the common carotid artery for aneurysmal disease.



Subjects: VASCULAR SURGERY › Ligations
  • 2939

Case of brachial aneurism, cured by tying the subclavian artery above the clavicle.

Tr. phys.-med. soc. N. Y., 1, 387-94, 1817.

Post was the first successfully to ligate the subclavian artery outside the scaleni (Sept. 8, 1817).



Subjects: VASCULAR SURGERY › Ligations