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

PARKER, Willard

3 entries
  • 4169

Cystitis; lateral operation on the bladder, death; tuberculous kidney.

N Y. J. Med. n.s. 7, 83-86, 1851.

First cystotomy for inflammation and rupture of the bladder.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis, NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease, UROLOGY
  • 2962

Ligature of the left subclavian inside the scalenus muscle, together with common carotid and vertebral arteries for subclavian aneurism haemorrhage from the distal end of the subclavian; death on 42nd day.

Amer. Med. Times, 8, 114-16, 1864.


Subjects: VASCULAR SURGERY › Ligations
  • 3564

An operation for abscess of the appendix vermiformis caeci.

Med. Rec. (N.Y.), 2, 25-27, 1867.

Parker was the first American to operate for appendicitis. In this paper he described a case from 1864, but mentioned a case he had operated on as early as 1843. He advocated the opening of the appendicular abscesses at an early stage; until his time such abscesses had been opened only when they pointed on the surface.



Subjects: SURGERY: General , SURGERY: General › Appendicitis