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H. ERTIN et al - Ord. Prof. Dr. Cemil Topuzlu (1866-1958) and his contributions to Turkish surgery 127
anesthesia with chloroform Cemil Topuzlu
provided pyloroplasty, scapula-torasik
amputation and caesarian section.
Moreover his contributions to surgery can
be counted as follows:
1. Stitching of cut arteries while blood
stream goes on.
2. An apparatus easily sterilized in
hemorrhoidectomy
3. A genuine technique in “Z” plasty of
Achilles tendon.
4. Clamp for circumcision, clump for
suturing technique
He brought institutionalization of
internship at the faculty, publishing
operation statistics and researches at
national and international level and the
membership to international associations
into his country.
He retired officially from surgery when
he was 80 but went on giving conferences
publishing articles, working in his clinics.
In his article “Preventive measures before
the operation”, he mentioned that it was
not just sufficient to obey “asepsis and
technique operatoire”. “The history of
surgery in our country” in 1943, “How the
surgery progressed just in 50 years” in
1947 were the two most important article
of him that is shedding light on the history
of modern surgery in Turkey. In addition
to these he wrote several articles about
medicine, surgery, municipal works and
educational matters in newspapers and
journals.
Other works
1- Clinical Instruction of Surgery
(Seririyat-ı Cerrahiye), published in 1897
in �stanbul, with 107 pages and 155 case
presentations
2- Memories and Medical Observations
(Mémories et observation médicales),
Published in French in 1905, �stanbul.
Having 196 pages, the most specific aspect
of this book is its first chapter in which
Cemil Topuzlu’s own invention the artery
suture is presented.
3- Scientific Surgery and painless
delivery translated from Crener and
Conbet. The book of 318 pages deals with
anesthesia in surgery and gynecology.
Despite its a translation Cemil Pasha
included his own original observations and
methods
4- Systematic appendisectomy on
terminal phase appendicitis, presentation
made in 15 December 1936 at French
Academy of Surgery
5- Is circumcision beneficial to health?
Presented at the meeting of Turkish
Medical Commission in 30 January 1934
6- Senile spots, presentation made in
Turkish and French in 18 April 1944 at the
conference held by Turkish Medical
Association
7- Tongue Cancer presented at the
meeting of Turkish Medical Association in
2 February 1937.
Apparatus invented by Cemil Pasha
1- Clamp that can be fixed on pinpoint
of Reverdin needle and that provides
operating deeply It was published in Presse
Médicale in 03.02.1932.
2- A specific apparatus for holding and
pushing hemorrhoids and tying them off
the body
3- Clamp for circumcision
A Memory From Cemil Topuzlu
Pasha
First published in 1951, in his book
“My Memories of 80 years in Autocracy-
Constitutional Monarchy and Republican
Period” Cemil Topuzlu narrated his several
precious observations and memories about
the periods of Sultan Abdulhamid II and
Constitutional Monarchy in the Empire.
The memory below cited from this book.
“I am operating on an Albanian in a
house in �ehzadeba�ı. Besim Omer Pasha
chloroformed the patient while Suleyman
Numan Pahsa was assisting me. In the