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M. G. Seelig Reprints

Historical Note

Major Gabriel Seelig (1874-1953) was born in Helena, Arkansas. He received an A.B. at Harvard University in 1896.  Seelig then received his medical degree in 1900 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. From 1903 to 1904 he did postgraduate work at the University of Berlin where he studied the history of medicine with Julius Pagel.  Seelig took a position as Instructor of Anatomy at St. Louis University in 1908, and he was later promoted to Professor of Anatomy. During World War I, Seelig served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919. After the war, he joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine where he served as Professor of Clinical Surgery. He held this position until his retirement in 1947. In addition to his professorship at Washington University, he was Chief of Surgery at Jewish Hospital from 1917 to 1931 and a founder of People’s Hospital in 1918. Seelig was also the Director of Research at the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital from 1931 to 1940, and he served as head of pathology from 1940 to 1947.

Provenance

Volume 1, 1904-1922, was transferred to the archives from the Washington University Medical School Library. Volume 2, 1904-1947, was the gift of the Sidney I. Rothschild Medical Library at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

Access and Use

The collection is open and accessible for research. For detailed information, contact the Archives and Rare Book Department of the Becker Medical Library (arb@wusm.wustl.edu).

Scope and Content

The M. G. Seelig Reprints is a collection of 92 scientific articles authored or co-authored by M. G. Seelig that have been bound in two separate volumes. Volume 1 (1904-1922) is titled “Seelig Reprints.” Volume 2 (1904-1947) is titled “Collected Papers of M. G. Seelig, M.D.” Subjects include shock, clinical surgery, cancer, surgical pathology, and medical history.

Preferred Citation

M. G. Seelig Reprints, Washington University School of Medicine.

Organization of the Collection (Series List)

Total Volumes: 2

Series 1: Reprints, 1903-1947. Volumes 1-2.

Container List

Series 1: Reprints, 1903-1947. Volumes 1-2.

This series consists of 2 volumes of Dr. Seelig’s publications. Volume 1 (1904-1922) contains several early history of medicine papers along with essays on surgery. Many of the reprints in Volume 2 (1904-1947) are duplicates of those included in volume 1. However, volume 2 contains many additional papers on medicine and surgery.

Volume 1 of 2

1.	Seelig, M. G. “Treatment of the stump in appendectomy.” Annals of Surgery 37, no. 5 (May 1903): 710-720.
2.	Seelig, M. G. “Superstition in medicine.” Interstate Medical Journal 12, no. 7 (1905): 515-523.
3.	Seelig, M. G. “Scopolamine-morphine as an adjuvant in the administration of general anesthesia.” Annals of Surgery 42 (August 1905): 185-192.
4.	Seelig, M. G. “Alexander Monroe the Second.” Interstate Medical Journal (July 1906): 581-585.
5.	Seelig, M. G. “False diverticula of the vermiform appendix.” Annals of Surgery 44 (July 1906): 78-86.
6.	Seelig, M. G. “The pathological and clinical diagnosis of sarcoma.” St. Louis Medical Review 54-55 (1907): 1-135.
7.	Seelig, M. G. “Reticulum in small round-cell and lympho-sarcomata: a comparative study.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 4, no. 3 (March 1907): 319-333.
8.	Seelig, M. G. “Cervical fistula following suppuration in a patient thyroglossal duct.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 4, no. 5 (May1907): 623-625.
9.	Seelig, M. G. “Post operative acute dilatation of the stomach (gastro-mesenteric ileus).” Interstate Medical Journal 14 (1907): 517-524.
10.	Seelig, M. G. “Stasis hyperemia (Bier).” Interstate Medical Journal 14, no. 12 (1907): 988-991.
11.	Seelig, M. G. “Carcinoma of the esophagus: a clinical and pathological study.” Annals of Surgery 46 (1907): 809-820.
12.	Seelig, M. G. “Hematuria as a complicating factor in appendicitis.” Annals of Surgery 48 (September 1908): 388-393.
13.	Seelig, M. G. “Appendicitis resembling ureteral calculus.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (October 1908): 485-486.
14.	Seelig, M. G. “Geography and medicine.” The Aesculapian 1, no. 1 (December 1908): 9-18.
15.	Seelig, M. G. and E. P. Lyon. “The condition of the peripheral blood-vessels in shock.” Journal of the American Medical Association 52 (January 1909): 45-48.
16.	Seelig, M. G. and E. P. Lyon. “The physiology of shock.” Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 6, no. 4 (1909): 254-259.
17.	Seelig, M. G. “The method of Zadig in medicine.” Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin 21 (January 1910): 12-15.
18.	Seelig, M. G. and E. P. Lyon. “Further experimental data on the vasomotor relations of shock.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics 11 (August 1910): 146-152.
19.	Seelig, M. G. “The doctrine of vitalism in medicine.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 163 (December 1910): 825-829.
20.	Seelig, M. G. and C. W. Gould. “Osmosis as an important factor in the action of antiseptics.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 12 (March 1911): 262-270.
21.	Seelig, M. G. “Fallacy of warmed ether vapor.” Interstate Medical Journal 18, no. 9 (1911): 927-930.
22.	Seelig, M. G. “Cervical rib: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 20, no. 4 (1913).
23.	Seelig, M. G. “Role of the thymus in exothalmic goiter: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 20, no. 7 (1913).
24.	Dock, G. “Julius Pagel and the Pagel collection of books on the history of medicine in the Washington University Medical School.” The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 3 (May 1913): 21-25.
25.	Seelig, M. G., J. Tierney, and F. Rodenbaugh. “An experimental study of sodium bicarbonate and other allied salts in shock.” American Journal of Medical Sciences 146, no. 2 (August 1913): 195.
26.	Seelig, M. G. “Contributions to the analysis of tissue growth: Homoplastic and autoplastic transplantation of unpigmented skin in guinea pigs.” Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 37 (1913): 259-264.
27.	Seelig, M. G. “Operative indications in diabetes: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 20, no. 11 (1913).
28.	Seelig, M. G. and Lister Tuholske. “The inguinal route operation for femoral hernia: with a supplementary note on Cooper’s ligament.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (January 1914): 55-62.
29.	Seelig, M. G. “The nature of shock: a critical abstract.” International Abstract of Surgery (February 1914): 117-123.
30.	Seelig, M. G. “Functional tests of cardiac efficiency.” Interstate Medical Journal 21, no. 6 (1914).
31.	Seelig, M. G. and Moyer S. Fleisher. “A comparison of the immunizing effects of the subcutaneous and intraperitoneal administrations of tumor cells against the growth of carcinoma in mice.” The Journal of Infectious Diseases 16, no. 2 (March 1915): 122-131.
32.	Seelig, M. G. and Frederic Hagler. “The cerebrospinal fluid as a factor in surgery: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 22, no. 3 (1915).
33.	Seelig, M. G. “Some fallacies in the arguments against full-time clinical instruction.” Science 41, no. 1060 (April 1915): 594-599.
34.	Seelig, M. G. and Don R. Joseph. “On the condition of the vasoconstrictor center during the development of shock.” The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 1, no. 5 (February 1916).
35.	Seelig, M. G. and Frederic Hagler. “Cause of death in intestinal obstruction.” Interstate Medical Journal 23 no. 5 (1916).
36.	Seelig, M. G. “Cholecystectomy.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (July 1917): 45-54.
37.	Seelig, M. G. “Medical education and the war.” Minnesota Medicine (October 1919).
38.	Seelig, M. G. “Cholelithiasis and intrathoracic goiter; appendicitis.” Surgical Clinics of North America (July 1922): 1549-1558.

Volume 2 of 2

1.	Seelig, M. G. “Treatment of the stump in appendectomy.” Annals of Surgery 37, no. 5: (May 1903): 710-720.
2.	Seelig, M. G. “Scopolamine-morphine as an adjuvant in the administration of general anesthesia.” Annals of Surgery 42 (August 1905): 185-192.
3.	Seelig, M. G. “False diverticula of the vermiform appendix.” Annals of Surgery 44 (July 1906): 78-86.
4.	Seelig, M. G. “Carcinoma of the esophagus: a clinical and pathological study.” Annals of Surgery 46 (1907): 809-820.
5.	Seelig, M. G. “Post operative acute dilatation of the stomach (gastro-mesenteric ileus).” Interstate Medical Journal 14 (1907): 517-524.
6.	Seelig, M. G. “The pathological and clinical diagnosis of sarcoma.” St. Louis Medical Review 54-55 (1907): 1-135.
7.	Seelig, M. G. “Stasis hyperemia.” Interstate Medical Journal 14, no. 12 (1907): 988-991.
8.	Seelig, M. G. “Reticulum in small round-cell and lympho-sarcomata: a comparative study.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 4, no. 3 (March 1907): 319-333.
9.	Seelig, M. G. “Appendicitis resembling ureteral calculus.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (October 1908): 485-486.
10.	Seelig, M. G. “Hematuria as a complicating factor in appendicitis.” Annals of Surgery 48 (September 1908): 388-393.
11.	Seelig, M. G. and E. P. Lyon. “The physiology of shock.” Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 6, no. 4 (1909): 254-259.
12.	Seelig, M. G. and E. P. Lyon. “The condition of the peripheral blood-vessels in shock.” Journal of the American Medical Association 52 (January 1909): 45-48.
13.	Seelig, M. G. and E. P. Lyon. “Further experimental data on the vasomotor relations of shock.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics 11 (August 1910): 146-152.
14.	Seelig, M. G. and Don R. Joseph. “On the condition of the vasoconstrictor center during the development of shock.” The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 1, no. 5 (February 1916).
15.	Seelig, M. G. “The nature of shock: a critical abstract.” International Abstract of Surgery (February 1914): 117-123.
16.	Seelig, M. G. “Contributions to the analysis of tissue growth: Homoplastic and autoplastic transplantation of unpigmented skin in guinea pigs.” Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 37 (1913): 259-264.
17.	Seelig, M. G. and C.W. Gould. “Osmosis as an important factor in the action of antiseptics.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 12 (March 1911): 262-270.
18.	Seelig, M. G. “Fallacy of warmed ether vapor.” Interstate Medical Journal 18, no. 9 (1911): 927-930.
19.	Seelig, M. G. “Role of the thymus in exothalmic goiter: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 20, no. 7 (1913).
20.	Seelig, M. G. “Operative indications in diabetes: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 20, no. 11 (1913).
21.	Seelig, M. G. “Cervical rib: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 20, no. 4 (1913).
22.	Seelig, M. G. “Functional tests of cardiac efficiency.” Interstate Medical Journal 21, no. 6 (1914).
23.	Seelig, M. G. and Lister Tuholske. “The inguinal route operation for femoral hernia: with a supplementary note on Cooper’s ligament.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (January 1914): 55-62.
24.	Seelig, M. G. and Frederic Hagler. “The cerebrospinal fluid as a factor in surgery: a review of recent literature.” Interstate Medical Journal 22, no. 3 (1915).
25.	Seelig, M. G. and Frederic Hagler. “Cause of death in intestinal obstruction.” Interstate Medical Journal 23 no. 5 (1916).
26.	Seelig, M. G. “Cholecystectomy.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (July 1917): 45-54.
27.	Seelig, M. G.  “A Study of Magnesium Wire as an Absorbable Suture and Ligature Material.” Archives of Surgery 8 (March 1924): 669-680.
28.	Seelig, M. G. “Rhinophyma.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (April 1920): 394-398.
29.	Seelig, M. G. “Bile-duct anomaly as a factor in the pathogenesis of cholecystitis.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (March 1923): 331-335.
30.	Seelig, M. G. “Diabetes surgery.” American Journal of Medical Sciences 168, no. 4 (October 1924): 495.
31.	Seelig, M. G. “Surgical treatment of angina pectoris.” Surgical Clinics of North America (December 1925): 1365-1386.
32.	Seelig, M. G. “Bone formation in the thyroid gland.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (December 1925): 794-797.
33.	Seelig, M. G. “A critique of the operative therapy of angina pectoris: based on a case of vocal cord paralysis following sympathectomy.” American Journal of Surgery 3, no. 4 (1927): 315-320.
34.	Seelig, M. G. and J. J. Singer. “Bronchobilary fistula.” Archives of Surgery 19 (July 1929): 149-151.
35.	Seelig, M. G. “Localized gangrene following hypodermic administration of calcium chloride.” Journal of the American Medical Association 84: (May 1925): 1413-1414.
36.	Seelig, M. G. and J. G. Probstein. “Subacute ileocolic intussusception secondary to carcinoma of the ileum.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (June 1926): 769-771.
37.	Seelig, M. G. “Fundamental principles underlying the operative cure of inguinal hernia.” Journal of the American Medical Association 88 (February 19, 1927): 529-532.
38.	Seelig, M. G. and J. G. Probstein. “The treatment of postoperative progressive gangrenous infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue with blood from immunized donors.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (August 1928): 247-251.
39.	Seelig, M. G. “Superstition in medicine.” Interstate Medical Journal 12, no. 7 (1905): 515-523.
40.	Reprint not included in this volume.
41.	Seelig, M. G. “The doctrine of vitalism in medicine.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 163 (December 1910): 825-829.
42.	Seelig, M. G. “The method of Zadig in medicine.” Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin 21 (January 1910): 12-15.
43.	Seelig, M. G. “Factors of safety in surgery.” Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 19 (January 1922): 27-43.
44.	Seelig, M. G. “The rise of medicine.” Lecture given before the Mayo Foundation (January 23, 1928): 73-97.
45.	Seelig, M. G. “The rise of medicine.” New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 80, no. 10 (April 1928): 605-618.
46.	Seelig, M. G. “Medical progress in the last hundred years.” Science 86, no. 2230 (September 1937): 275-279.
47.	Seelig, M. G. “Quacks and quackery.” Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital 4, no. 6 (March-April 1938): 672-679.
48.	Seelig, M. G. “What is being done about cancer.” Atlantic Monthly (July 1936): 86-91.
49.	Seelig, M. G. “Should the cancer victim be told the truth?” Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association (February 1943): 33-35.
50.	Seelig, M. G. “Yesteryears in review.” Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association (May 1943): 144-147.
51.	Seelig, M. G. “Cancer and politics: the operation on Grover Cleveland.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (September 1947): 373-376.
52.	Reprint not included in this volume.
53.	Seelig, M. G. “Research in the hospital.” American Journal of Surgery 30, no. 2 (1933): 205-206.
54.	Seelig, M. G. and Louis L. Tureen. “Reticulum in tumors.” Archives of Pathology 15 (April 1933): 498-508.
55.	Seelig, M. G. and Zola K. Cooper. “Light and tar cancer: An experimental study with a critical review of the literature on light as a carcinogenic factor.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 56 (April 1933): 752-769.
56.	Seelig, M. G. and Zola K. Cooper. “Review of the recent literature tar cancer: 1927-1931 inclusive.” American Journal of Cancer 17, no. 3 (March 1933): 589-667.
57.	Seelig, M. G. and Gerald Gruenfeld. “The nature of so-called xanthoma: a critical review.” Archives of Pathology 17 (April 1934): 546-573.
58.	Seelig, M. G. “Dibenzanthracene 1:2:5:6 as a carcinogenic agent.” American Journal of Cancer 20, no. 4 (April 1934): 827-833.
59.	Seelig, M. G., Clarence T. Eckert, and Zola K. Cooper. “Scarlet red as a possible carcinogenic agent.” Archives of Pathology 19 (January 1935): 83-90.
60.	Seelig, M. G. and Zola K. Cooper. “The effect of radiation upon reticulum in squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix.” American Journal of Cancer 30, no. 1 (May 1937): 32-38.
61.	Seelig, M. G., J. Taussig, and Z. K. Cooper. “The effect of light on benzpyrene cancer in mice.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 66 (June 1938): 989-993.
62.	Seelig, M. G. “Compensation in one trauma cancer.” Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association (January 1947): 27-32.
63.	Seelig, M. G. and E. L. Benignus. “The production of experimental cancer of the lung in mice.” American Journal of Cancer 33 (August 1938): 549-554.
64.	Seelig, M. G. and Moyer S. Fleisher. “A comparison of the immunizing effects of the subcutaneous and intraperitoneal administrations of tumor cells against the growth of carcinoma in mice.” The Journal of Infectious Diseases 16, no. 2 (March 1915): 122-131.
65.	Seelig, M. G. and E. L. Benignus. “Lung tumor development in a resistant strain of mice subjected to inhalation of soot.” American Journal of Cancer 34 (November 1938): 391-398
66.	Seelig, M. G., D. J. Verda, and F. H. Kidd. “The talcum powder problem in surgery and its solution.” Journal of the American Medical Association 123 (December 1943): 950-954.
67.	Seelig, M. G. “Abdominal silicosis (due to talcum powder) and cancer.” Surgical Clinics of North America (October 1944): 1162-1171.
68.	Seelig, M. G. “Talcum powder as an operating room hazard.” Southern Medical Journal 38, no. 7 (July 1945): 470-472.
69.	Seelig, M. G. and D. J. Verda. “The talcum powder problem.” Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital 12, no. 1 (December 1943): 655-666.
70.	Seelig, M. G. and D. J. Verda. “The talcum powder problem.” Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital 12, no. 1 (December 1943): 655-666.  [duplicate copy]
71.	Seelig, M. G. “Talcum powder: a grave surgical hazard.” The American Journal of Surgery 68, no. 3 (June 1945): 279-280.
72.	Seelig, M. G., Ben Eiseman, and Nathan A. Womack. “Talcum Powder Granuloma: A Frequent and Serious Postoperative Complication.” Annals of Surgery 126, no. 5 (November 1947): 820-832.
73.	Dock, G. “Julius Pagel and the Pagel collection of books on the history of medicine in the Washington University Medical School.” The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association 3 (May 1913): 21-25.
74.	Seelig, M. G. “Introduction: Focusing the cancer problem for surgeon and layman.” Surgical Clinics of North America (October 1944): 981-984.
75.	Seelig, M. G. “The opportunity presented to the Barnard free Skin and Cancer Hospital today.” The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association (March 1942): 80-82.
76.	Seelig, M. G. “Medical education and the war.” Minnesota Medicine (October 1919).
77.	Seelig, M. G. “Some fallacies in the arguments against full-time clinical instruction.” Science 41, no. 1060 (April 1915): 594-599.
78.	Seelig, M. G. Review of Civilization and Disease, by Henry E. Sigerist. Science 99, no. 2582 (June 1944): 514-515.
79.	Seelig, M. G. “Superstition in medicine.” Interstate Medical Journal 12, no. 7 (1905): 515-523.
80.	Seelig, M. G. and John E. Hobbs. “Endometriosis in the vermiform appendix.” Festschrift dedicated to Robert Tilden Frank (June 1937).
81.	Reprint not included in this volume.
82.	Seelig, M. G. “Joseph Ransohoff.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 52 (April 1931): 914-916.
83.	Seelig, M. G. “Dr. Hugo Ehrenfest.” The Tray: the bulletin of the Jewish Hospital Alumnae Association (September 1942): 2.
84.	Seelig, M. G. “Ellis Fischel.” The Washington University Medical Alumni Quarterly 1, no. 4 (July 1938): 181.
85.	Seelig, M. G. “An appreciation of Dr. Alexis Victor Moschcowitz.” Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital 8, no. 3 (September-October 1941): 123-124.

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