Timeline of gastroenterology
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Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| 1960s | Societies of endoscopy become widely established and provided, for persons in gastroenterology training, courses in the appropriate indications for endoscopic investigation and formal teaching of the techniques involved.[1] |
| 20th century | Since the 1970s, endoscopy starts becomming the incontrovertible tool of gastroenterology.[1] |
Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1767 | Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann writes an important work on dysentery. | Germany | |
| 1777 | Maximilian Stoll in Vienna describes cancer of the gallbladder.[2][3] | Austria | |
| 1805 | "Philipp Bozzini makes the first attempt to observe inside the living human body using a tube he named Lichtleiter (light-guiding instrument) to examine the urinary tract, the rectum, and the human pharynx. This is the earliest description of endoscopy."[4][5] | ||
| 1806 | "The colonoscope and gastroscope both trace back to 1806, when Dr. Philipp Bozzini, of Mainz, Germany, first used a tin tube with a candle and mirror to view the bladder."[6] | ||
| 1823 | "In 1823, William Prout discovered that stomach juices contain hydrochloric acid."[7] | ||
| 1833 | "In 1833, William Beaumont published Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion following years of experimenting on test subject Alexis St. Martin." | ||
| 1868 | "In 1868, Adolf Kussmaul, a well-known German physician, developed the gastroscope. He perfected the technique on a sword swallower." | ||
| 1871 | "In 1871, at the society of physicians in Vienna, Carl Stoerk demonstrated an esophagoscope made of two telescopic metal tubes, initially devised by Waldenburg in 1870." | ||
| 1876 | "In 1876, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer described the properties of some liver cells now called Kupffer cell." | ||
| 1883 | "In 1883, Hugo Kronecker and Samuel James Meltzer studied oesophageal manometry in humans." | ||
| 1897 | Organization | The American Gastroenterological Association is formed. | United States |
| 1915 | "In 1915, Jesse McClendon tested acidity of human stomach in situ."[8] | ||
| 1922 | "In 1921-22, Walter Alvarez did the first electrogastrography research."[9] | ||
| 1932 | "Rudolf Schindler described many important diseases involving the human digestive system during World War I in his illustrated textbook and is portrayed by some as the "father of gastroscopy". He and Georg Wolf developed a semiflexible gastroscope in 1932." | ||
| 1932 | "In 1932, Burrill Bernard Crohn described Crohn's disease." | ||
| 1932 | The American College of Gastroenterology is founded. | ||
| 1934 | Literature (journal) | The American Journal of Gastroenterology. | United States |
| 1937 | Organization | The British Society of Gastroenterology is founded. | |
| 1941 | Organization | The American Gastroscopic Club is founded.[1] | United States |
| 1943 | Literature (journal) | Gastroenterology. | |
| 1954 | Literature (journal) | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | |
| 1957 | "1957, Dr. Basil Hirschowitz developed the first fiberscope."[6] | ||
| 1957 | The fiberoptic endoscope is released.[1] | ||
| 1958 | Organization | The World Gastroenterology Organisation is founded. | |
| 1958 | Literature (journal) | Diseases of the Colon & Rectum | |
| 1961 | Literature (journal) | Endoscopy. | |
| 1965 | Literature (journal) | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. | |
| 1966 | Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology | ||
| 1979 | Literature (journal) | Digestive Diseases and Sciences | |
| 1979 | Literature (journal) | Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. | |
| 1982 | Literature (journal) | Indian Journal of Gastroenterology. | |
| 1982 | Literature (journal) | Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. | |
| 1987 | Literature (journal) | Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. | Canada |
| 1989 | Literature (journal) | European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology | |
| 1989 | Neurogastroenterology & Motility. | ||
| 1992 | Literature (journal) | The United European Gastroenterology is founded. | |
| 1995 | Literature (journal) | World Journal of Gastroenterology. | |
| 2003 | Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology | ||
| 2003 | Literature (journal) | Gastrointestinal Nursing | |
| 2005 | "In 2005, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren of Australia were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of Helicobacter pylori (1982/1983) and its role in peptic ulcer disease. James Leavitt assisted in their research, but the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously so he was not included in the award." | ||
| 2007 | Literature (journal) | Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. | |
| 2008 | Literature (journal) | Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. | |
| 2010 | Literature (journal) | Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. | |
| 2012 | Organization | GI Forum |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hunt, Richard H. "A brief history of endoscopy". doi:10.1016/S0016-5085(01)70141-2.
- ↑ Edgardo Rivera, MD James L. Abbruzzese, MD; Pancreatic, Hepatic, and Biliary Carcinomas, MEDICAL ONCOLOGY: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW [1]
- ↑ DeStoll M: Rationis Mendendi, in Nosocomio Practico vendobonensi. Part 1 LugduniBatavarum, Haak et Socios et A et J Honkoop 1788, Template:OCLC
- ↑ Gilger, MA (October 2001). "Gastroenterologic endoscopy in children: past, present, and future". Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 13 (5): 429–34. PMID 11801888. doi:10.1097/00008480-200110000-00008.
- ↑ The Origin of Endoscopes, Olympus history
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "History of Gastroenterology". resident360.nejm.org. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ↑ Prout, W. On the nature of the acid and saline matters usually existing in the stomachs of animals. – Philos. Transactions, 1824, 1, 45.
- ↑ McClendon J. F. New hydrogen electrodes and rapid methods of determining hydrogen ion concentrations. – Amer. J. Physoil., 1915, 38, 2, 180.
- ↑ Alvarez W. C. The electrogastrogram and what it shows. JAMA, 78(15):1116-18, 1922.
