Entry Nos. 6200–6299
96 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1924
#6252
Césarienne suivie d’extériorisation temporaire de l’utérus et de réintégration secondaire dans le bassin.
Portes operation – the classic Caesarean section followed by temporary exteriorization of the uterus. More fully described in Gynéc. et Obstét., 1924, 10, 225-50.
1701
#6253
Manuale operatien, I. deel zijnde een neiuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouen.
This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the latter in complicating labor. The first edition contains a relatively unattractive frontispiece portrait o…
1762
#6254
A singular case of the separation of the ossa pubis.
A case of osteomalacic pelvis was reported to Hunter by a country practitioner.
1781
#6255
L’art des accouchemens. 2 vols.
Baudelocque invented a pelvimeter and advanced the knowledge of pelvimetry and of the mechanism of labor. The external conjugate diameter is known as “Baudelocque’s diameter”. English translation, London, 1790.
1825
#6256
Das weibliche Becken.
1839
#6257
Das schräg verengte Becken nebst einem Anhange über die wichtigsten Fehler des weiblichen Beckens überhaupt.
First description of the obliquely contracted pelvis, or “Naegele pelvis”. Because of its rarity and the difficulty of recognizing it clinically in living subjects, the obliquely contracted pelvis, with its most often…
1839
#6258
Beyträge zur Kenntniss der Rückgrathskrümmungen, und der mit demselben zusammentreffenden Abweichungen des Brustkorbes und Beckens.
Original description of spondylolisthesis.
1851
#6259
Das enge Becken: nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen.
First important work dealing with pelvic deformities since the time of van Deventer. It is a pioneer work in the literature dealing with pelvic architecture; Michaelis was one of the first to differentiate between the…
1853
#6260
Das schräg-ovale Becken.
Litzmann (see also No. 6263) described in this work the coxalgic, scoliotic and kyphoscoliotic forms of pelvis.
1854
#6261
Schilderungen neuer Beckenformen und ihres Verhaltens im Leben.
First description of pelvis spinosa.
1854
#6262
De spondylolisthesi gravissimae pelvangustiae causa nuper detecta.
An important study of the spondylolisthetic pelvis, which Kilian called “pelvis obtecta”.
1861
#6263
Die Formen des Beckens, insbesondere des engen weiblichen Beckens.
Litzmann devised a clinical classification of pelves which was for many years generally used, and he described various deformities of the female pelvis.
1885
#6264
Neuer Beitrag zur Aetiologie und Casuistik der Spondyl-olisthesis.
1900 –1904
#6265
Die pathologischen Beckenformen.
Classic description and classification of pelvic deformities.
1933
#6266
Anatomical variations in the female pelvis and their effect in labor, with a suggested classification.
The modern classification of the female pelvis is based on the work of Caldwell and Moloy.
1923
#6267
Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.
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The earliest known description of puerperal fever.
1751
#6268
An essay towards a complete new system of midwifery, theoretical and practical.
Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section. Laurence Steme satirized him as “Dr. Slop” in The life and opinions of Tristram Sha…
1772
#6269
Practical observations on the child-bed fever.
Leake insisted on the contagious nature of puerperal fever. Reprinted, London, Sydenham Society, 1949.
1773
#6270
A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births. illustrated with cases.
White was the first to state clearly in a text on midwifery the necessity of absolute cleanliness in the lying-in chamber, the isolation of infected patients, and adequate ventilation. He instituted the principle of u…
1784
#6271
An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremeties, which sometimes happens to lying-in-women.
First clinical description of phlegmasia alba dolens. White ascribed it to destruction of the lymphatics due to pressure of the foetal head.
1795
#6272
A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen.
Gordon was the first to advance as a definite hypothesis the contagious nature of puerperal fever, thus preceding Holmes and Semmelweis by half a century. He also advocated the disinfection of the clothes of the docto…
1823
#6273
An essay on the proximate cause of the disease called phlegmasia dolens.
Davis was the first to state that phlegmasia alba dolens was due to inflammation of the veins. He was physician-accoucheur at the birth of Queen Victoria.
1842 –1843
#6274
The contagiousness of puerperal fever.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first to establish the contagious nature of puerperal fever. His essay on the subject took a strong line against the opinions then prevailing, stirring up violent opposition among the obs…
1847 –1848
#6275
Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.
Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicemia. He concluded that the doctors and students of Vienna’s First Obstetrical Clinic carried the infection o…
1855
#6276
Puerperal fever, as a private pestilence.
Because his first paper (No. 6274) had been published in a short-lived journal with very small circulation, Holmes enlarged his famous essay on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, and in this reiteration mentioned …
1861
#6277
Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers.
Semmelweis, who earlier had shown puerperal fever to be a septicemia, strove to improve conditions in the lying-in wards of Vienna and Budapest. Misunderstood and maligned by many, he eventually published this book in…
1879
#6278
Septicémie puerpérale.
Description of the streptococcus of puerperal sepsis.
1892
#6279
Das Scheidensekret und seine Bedeutung für das Puerperalfieber.
Döderlein's study of the vaginal secretion in relation to puerperal fever includes the first description of “Döderlein’s bacillus” (Lactobacillus). Döderlein introduced the concept of normal body bacteria or "normal b…
1919
#6280
Die pathologische Anatomie des Puerperalprozesses.
1936
#6281
Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.
Chemotherapeutic treatment of puerperal sepsis.
1872
#6282
English midwives.
Reprinted with biographical sketch by J. L. Thornton, London, 1967.
1882
#6283
The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.
1882
#6284
Labor among primitive peoples.
Third edition, revised, 1884.
1887
#6285
Les accouchements à la cour.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#6286
Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.
182-page appendix: "L'arsenal obstétrical", containing numerous illustrations of instruments, at end. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901
#6287
The history of ancient gynaecology.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 –1902
#6288
Versuch einer Geschichte der Geburtshilfe. 2te. Aufl. 2 vols.
First edition, 1839-45. Continuation by R. Dohm, for the period 1840-80, forming Bd. 3 (see No. 6289).
1903 –1904
#6289
Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit. 2 pts.
A supplement to No. 6288.
1904
#6290
Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.
1906
#6291
Geschichte der Geburtshüfe.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908
#6293
Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.
From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1917
#6295
L’utero attraverso i secoli da Erofilo al giorni nostri; storia, iconografia, struttura, fisiologia.
Contains an important collection of illustrations.
1924
#6296
Geschichte der Gynäkologie. In: J. von Halban and L. Seitz: Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.1, 1-202.
1925
#6297
Entwicklund der Gerurtshilfe und Gynäkologie im 19. Jahrhundert.
1927
#6298
Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.
1927
#6299
