Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 13. (Budapest, 1959)
Dr. I. CSILLAG and Dr. H. JELLINEK: From primitive Haemostatic Methods to Modern Vascular Surgery
orlon and nylon seem to be likewise applicable. 67 surgeons reported on 8 substances they tried out in 1957; these are vinyon, nylon, orlon, dacron, teflon, ivalon, fortisan and pure steel. Efforts in Hungary to Help Vascular Injuries In 1882 József Kovács, professor of surgery at the Budapest University sutured several times severe venous injuries. He used a very fine needle and embroidery silk and did that work at the time when Shede carried out his first venous sutures. Kovács elaborated his method more than 25 years prior to Carrel but his activity failed to become widely known. It was about the same time w r hen Carrel reported on his achievements that the first reports on the then state of vascular surgery were published in the 1907 volume of the Budapesti Orvosi Újság (Medical Journal of Budapest). It was a Budapest surgeon, Ferenc Fáykiss who contributed with 3 articles. He described his own experiments in the field of vascular surgery as well. One hesitates to decide whether his experimental technique or his presentimenting the vast possibilities of vascular surgery elicits aour admiration; moreover, all he did was done in a period leaving his work absolutely unnoticed. He performed his experiments in the carotid artery of dogs uniting cut arteries with several methods. At a 1909 session of the Surgical Section of the Physician's Association Károly Schiller and Leo Lobstein report on their work with the title: "The Value of Single Continues Vascular Sutures Passing Through the entire Thickness of the Vessel". In 6 cases they cut through the abdominal aorta of dogs, removed a 2 cm part and successfully sutured together the terminations. Fáykiss reported in 1909 on his attempts to transplant vessels, in a work entitled "Transplantation of the Blood Vessels". After publishing his experimental results he was forced to leave his clinic his progressive results remaining unrecognized.
