Thoughts on a neglected French medieval surgeon: Henri de Mondeville (+/-1260-1320).

Henri de Mondeville's manuscript, presented in this article, is based on an incomplete Latin manuscript, written from 1306 to 1320, translated into French by E. Nicaise and kept in the Manuscript section of the Bibliothbque Nationale de Paris (MS French 2030).

G. Dupuytren's contracture: an inaccurate denomination.

The question of priority in describing 'Dupuytren's disease' as a result of permanent retraction of the palmar aponeurosis has been debated for a long time. This article tries to identify the pioneers who were involved in the research of the origin of permanent contracture of fingers and palm of the hand, and to find out to whom the priority of this affection should be attributed. Selected passages of several authors, as well as of Dupuytren's writings (mainly in italics and translated into English) are used to try and find the truth concerning the primary description of the disease.

[Thoughts on the Revue de Chirurgie Plastique (1931-34) and the Revue de Chirurgie Structive (1935-38)].

The history of modern plastic surgery starts when a young, restless ENT man, Dr M. Coelst, started a training in Plastic Surgery with Sebileau in Paris and Joseph in Berlin. This man of vision and far-sighted imagination realized that the separated efforts and publications of so many pioneers, scaterred all over the world, would be lost if not gathered in a scientific journal only devoted to plastic surgery for the benefit of all.

The scientific contributions of British Plastic Surgeons to the Revue de Chirurgie Plastique and the Revue de Chirurgie Structive, Brussels (1931-1938).

In 1931, Maurice Coelst, M.D. from Brussels started the publication of the first international journal of plastic surgery ever published: the Revue de Chirurgie Plastique (1931-1934), which eventually became the Revue de Chirurgie Structive (1935-1938).