1888

Rudolph Matas works out surgical treatment of aneurysm (i.e., suture inside the sac), but only published the method in 1902. It was case of aneurysm of brachial artery where, after preliminary attempts at ligature, he sewed up the lips of the orifices, intima to intima (Cohn, 199-215). Matas published his “epochal modification of revived Antyllian procedure” in Medical News of Philadelphia, but only mustered the courage to repeat the operation 12 years later (280-284), owing, Cohn speculates, to deference to his arch conservative teachers, Edmond Souchon and Stanford Chaillé (213-214). Matas finally reported five successful cases of “intrasacular suture” (“endoaneurismal sutures” [285]) at 1902 convention of American Surgical Assn. in Albany (284-285). Debate between Matas and Ballance on Matas’s endoaneurismorrhaphy versus Hunterian ligature at 1913 International Medical Congress in London (Cohn, 343,345).