Note 57 — Chapter XLVII · INJURIES AND SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE STOMACH.

The first deliberate operation upon the stomach seems to have been that by Crolius, in 1602, for removal of a knife, and a similar operation was made eleven years later by Günther. Up to 1887, however, only thirteen such gastrotomies had been reported. The first unsuccessful gastrotomy was done by Sédillot in 1839; the first successful one by Jones, thirty-five years later. While pylorectomy was suggested by Merrien in 1810, it was not actually performed until 1879 by Péan. Gastro-enterostomy was first done by Wölfler in 1881. The first operation for hemorrhage from gastric ulcer was performed by Mikulicz in 1889. It will thus be seen how recent is the whole matter of modern surgical attack upon the stomach.