Entry Nos. 6100–6199
97 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1742
#6151
A treatise of midwifry.
The teaching of Ould did much towards the advancement of midwifery in the British Isles. His Treatise is the first text-book of obstetrics of any importance in English.
1747
#6152
Observations sur les causes et les accidens de plusieurs accouchemens laborieux.
Levret, who improved the obstetric forceps, was a famous teacher in Paris.
1753
#6153
L’art des accouchemens.
Besides introducing a curved forceps (see No. 6152) Levret invented several other obstetric instruments and made fundamental observations on pelvic anomalies. His book covered the whole field of obstetrics and remaine…
1752
#6154
A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery.
Smellie contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual. In his Treatise he described more accurately than any previous writer the mechanism of parturition, stressing the importance of…
1764
#6155
A case of extra-uterine foetus.
This description of an abdominal pregnancy, successfully operated on by Bard was “the first scientific paper on a surgical subject to come from the North American Colonies” (Earle). John Bard was the father of Samuel …
1767
#6156
Practical directions, shewing a method of preserving the perinaeum in birth, and delivering the placenta without violence.
Harvie, Smellie’s successor, advocated external expression of the placenta instead of traction on the cord, anticipating Credé in this connection by almost a century (see No. 6183). Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic cont…
1774
#6157
Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.
Hunter originally trained as Smellie’s assistant. Once he achieved brilliant professional and financial success he became a great collector of rare books and manuscripts, coins, paintings, minerals, shells, and antiqu…
1775
#6158
An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases.
Rigby differentiated between premature separation of the normal placenta (accidental hemorrhage) and placenta praevia (unavoidable hemorrhage).
1791 –1806
#6160
Abhandlungen und Versuche geburtshilflichen Inhalts. 2 vols.
Böer, a pioneer of “natural childbirth”, was the founder of the Viennese school of obstetrics.
1791
#6161
Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.
This work was edited by order of Catherine II of Russia, to whom von Mohrenheim was accoucheur. Its importance lies mainly in its splendid engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie (see No. 6154.1). It include…
1799
#6162
Account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog.
Home records (p. 162) that John Hunter suggested artificial insemination. The actual insemination was performed by the patient’s husband with a syringe.
1801
#6163
Drey Wahmehmungen von Schwangerschaften ausserhalb der Gebähr-mutter.
Interstitial pregnancy first reported.
1808
#6164
Accounts of the pulvis parturiens, a remedy for quickening child-birth.
The first use of ergot in the induction of labor in America. Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1935, pp. 21-23.
1812
#6165
Mémorial de l’art des accouchements.
Mme Boivin was one of the most famous of the Paris midwives. She improved the speculum and wrote intelligently on hydatidiform mole.
1817
#6166
Case of an extra-uterine foetus, produced alive through an incision made into the vagina of the mother, who recovered after delivery, without any alarming symptoms.
Reports the first successful vaginotomy for abdominal pregnancy, as opposed to an abdominal laparotomy.
1818
#6167
An analysis of the subject of extrauterine foetation and of the retroversion of the gravid uterus.
Expansion of No. 6166. First book on the subject.
1818
#6168
Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und über die künstliche Frühgeburt.
Artificial induction of premature labour.
1819
#6169
Ueber den Mechanismus der Geburt.
Best work of its time on the mechanism of labor. English translation, London, 1829.
1821 –1825
#6170
Pratique des accouchemens…par Marie Louise La Chapelle. Publiés par Antoine Dugès. 3 vols.
Mme La Chapelle was a famous midwife and a colleague of Baudelocque. She supervised 5,000 deliveries and her vast experience enabled her to write her book. She reduced the 94 theoretical presentations suggested by Bau…
1822
#6171
Mémoire sur l’auscultation appliquée à l’étude de la grossesse.
Although not the first to record the auscultation of the fetal heart sound, Le Jumeau (Kergaradec), a pupil of Laennec, brought the importance of this diagnostic procedure to the notice of the medical profession. Laen…
1827
#6172
Nouvelles recherches sur l’origine, la nature et le traitement de la mole vésiculaire ou grossesse hydatique.
Classic description of hydatidiform mole.
1837
#6173
An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy.
“Montgomery’s glands”, the sebaceous glands of the areola, were previously described by Morgagni. They are described, with his “tubercles” (the secondary areola seen in pregnancy) in the above work.
1838
#6174
Recherches d’anatomie et de physiologie sur le système vasculaire sanguin de l’utérus humain pendant la gestation, et plus spécialement sur les vaisseaux utero-placentaires.
Jacquemier’s sign, diagnostic of pregnancy.
1838
#6175
Die geburtshülfiche Auscultation
Pioneering work on obstetric auscultation, including the sounds of the foetal heart. English translation by C. West, London, 1839.
1843
#6176
Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.
Lever, of Guy’s Hospital, was the first to report the finding of albuminous urine in connection with puerperal convulsions.
1849
#6177
The heart-clot.
Meigs drew attention to embolism as a cause of sudden death in childbed. Previously such deaths had been attributed to syncope.
1851
#6178
Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.
Classic description of pelvic hematocele.
1852
#6179
Considérations sur l’avortement provoqué dans les cas de vomissements.
Classic description of hyperemesis gravidarum.
1852
#6180
Rigidity of the soft parts – delivery effected by incision in the perineum.
First episiotomy in America, 2 December 1851.
1854
#6181
On the displacements of the uterus.
“Duncan’s folds”, the peritoneal folds of the uterus. Republished in book form, Edinburgh, 1854. Duncan, a leading Edinburgh obstetrician, became lecturer on the subject at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
1854
#6182
Difficult labors and their treatment.
Wright was responsible for the introduction of combined cephalic version.
1860
#6183
De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.
Credé’s method of removing the placenta by external manual expression. It is first mentioned in his Klinische Vorträge über Geburtshilfe, Berlin, 1854, 599-603.
1861
#6184
Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.
Braun’s decapitation hook.
1864
#6185
The principles and practice of obstetrics.
Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completion of aborti…
1864
#6186
On combined external and internal version.
Introduction of combined podalic version.
1868
#6187
On the condition of the uterus in obstructed labour.
1872
#6188
Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern
Supplement to No. 424.
1872
#6189
On the contractions of the uterus throughout pregnancy: Their physiological effects and their value in the diagnosis of pregnancy.
“Braxton Hicks’s sign”.
1876
#6190
Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.
“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague.
1876
#6191
Extra-uterine pregnancy.
Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so.
1877
#6192
Description de deux nouveaux forceps.
Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64
1878
#6193
Traité du palper abdominal au point de vue obstétrical.
Pinard, professor of obstetrics in Paris, showed the importance of abdominal palpation as an aid to obstetrical diagnosis. English translation, 1885.
1879
#6194
Clinical lecture on hepatic disease in gynaecology and obstetrics.
Matthews Duncan pointed out that pernicious vomiting in pregnancy may be associated with hepatic lesions.
1884
#6196
Five cases of extra-uterine pregnancy operated upon at the time of rupture.
The first successful operation for ruptured ectopic pregnancy was performed by Lawson Tait on 1 March 1883.
1887
#6197
Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
1888
#6198
De l’accouchement provoqué; dilatation du canal génital (col de l’utérus, vagin et vulve) à l’aide de ballons introduits dans la cavité utérine pendant la grossesse.
The “Champetier de Ribes bag”.
1888
#6199