1911

Chevalier Jackson contracts pulmonary tuberculosis (two attacks); during recuperation he writes Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery (Jackson, 121-132). Around time of its publication, “direct inspection became the order of the day” (129). Russell Hibbs performs first fusion operation for tuberculosis of the spine (Pott’s disease) (Goodwin, 33-36). Augustus Hoffman provides first documentation of ventricular fibrillation in man via a published tracing of this arrhythmia (Fye II, 861).