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551 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615]
1824
#6025
Ueber den Gebärmutterkrebs, dessen Entstehung und Verhütung.
Classic account of cancer of the uterus.
1825
#6026
Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria.
Lizars performed the first (unsuccessful) ovariotomy in Britain. His book made generally known the practical possibility of this operation.
1825
#6238
Geschichte eines mit ungünstigem Erfolge verrichteten Bauchscheidenschnitts und Folgerung daraus.
Ritgen first performed extraperitoneal Caesarean section in 1821.
1825
#6256
Das weibliche Becken.
1825
#14215
Elements of operative midwifery.
Davis introduced a number of improvements in instruments and techniques: “It outlines rules and precautions for undertaking operations, described the use of various forms of forceps, and provided twenty detailed plate…
1826
#6026.1
A treatise on the diseases of females.
First American textbook on gynecology.
1826
#7508
Every woman's book; or, what is love? Containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family.
This radical and progressive sex manual was the first book to specify methods of contraception, including the sponge, condoms, and withdrawal. It also took the position, radical at the time, that with respect to sexua…
1827
#6172
Nouvelles recherches sur l’origine, la nature et le traitement de la mole vésiculaire ou grossesse hydatique.
Classic description of hydatidiform mole.
1829
#6027
Case of successful excision of the cervis uteri in a scirrhous state.
First successful excision of the cervix in America. Reported by T. F. Gillan.
1832
#7036
Fruits of philosophy, or the private companion of young married people,
First edition published privately and anonymously. Second edition, with additions, Boston, 1833. Many times reprinted. Republished by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant, 1891. Edited, with an introductory notice by No…
1833
#6028
Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.
Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.
1834
#6028.1
Calculus in the bladder. Incontinence of urine. Vesico-vaginal fistula. Advantages of the gilt-wire suture.
Gosset repaired a vesicovaginal fistula of eleven years’ duration, using silver gilt-wire, removed after 9, 12 and 21 days respectively.
1834
#6029
Mémoire sur la restauration du périnée chez la femme dans les cas de division ou de rupture complète de cette partie.
Roux was the first to suture the ruptured female perineum.
1834
#11151
Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834
#14017
Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.
Concerns miscarriage and aberrant gestation rather than removal or expulsion of embryo or fetus. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
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
#6008
De arte obstetricia morbisque mulierum quae supersunt. Ex apographo Friderici Reinholdi Dietz, nuper fato perfuncti primum edita.
Greek editio princeps of Soranus, based on manuscripts Dietz discovered in Paris and Rome, and published after the early death of the editor. Soranus was the leading authority on the gynecology and obstetrics of antiq…
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.
1839
#6030
Case of vesico-vaginal fistula, successfully treated by an operation.
Hayward’s successful treatment of vesicovaginal fistula was performed after Mettauer’s, although reported earlier.
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.
1840
#6031
Vesico-vaginal fistula.
The first successful operation for vesicovaginal fistula is believed to be that performed in August 1838, by Mettauer, a Virginian gynecologist. He introduced metallic sutures and a retention catheter.
1840
#6031.1
Hydatids, terminating fatally, by haemorrhage.
First report of a chorionic tumor.
1841
#10723
The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.
The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1842
#6032
Cases of peritoneal section, for the extirpation of diseased ovaria, by the large incision from sternum to pubes, successfully treated.
Clay, pioneer ovariotomist in Great Britain, introduced the word “ovariotomy”. (See also his later paper, No. 6054.)
1842 –1843
#6033
Invention du spéculum plein et brisé.
Description of the speculum invented by Récamier.
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…
1843
#6034
Case of ovarian tumors – both the right and the left being removed at the same operation.
First successful double oöphorectomy. Communicated in a letter to the editor by J. M. Foltz.
1843
#6035
Contributions to the pathology and treatment of disease of the uterus.
Simpson introduced many important procedures into gynecology and obstetrics; among them may be mentioned his use of the uterine sound for diagnosing retro-positions of the uterus
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.
1844 –1845
#267.1
Cours de microscopie. 1 vol. and atlas.
Donne's and Foucault's work was the first biomedical textbook to be illustrated with images made from photomicrographs, in this case daguerreotypes of blood cells. Among its noteworthy images are the first microphotog…
1844
#13608
Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1845
#6036
A practical treatise on inflammation, ulceration, and induration of the neck of the uterus.
Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumors.
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…
1847
#13469
The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility
Published pseudonymously by radical printer Charles Lohman who was married to the abortionist/entrpreneur Ann Lohman known as "Madame Restell." The Lohmans also sold condoms. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Libra…
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.
1850
#13760
The marriage guide, or natural history of generation; a private instructor for married persons and those about to marry, both male and female, in every thing concerning the physiology and relations of the sexual system and production or prevention of offspring; including all the new discoveries, never before given in the English language.
Digital facsimile of the 196th edition, much enlarged and improved from Google Books at this link. Sappol (2002) estimated that Hollick's works on sexuality and reproduction underwent at least 500 editions of between …
1851
#6038
A table of all the known operations of ovariotomy. From 1701-1851.
Atlee is said to have performed ovariotomy 387 times; with his brother John he firmly established the operation in the U.S.A.
1851
#6178
Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.
Classic description of pelvic hematocele.
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…
1852
#6037
On the treatment of vesico-vaginal fistula.
Original description of Sims’s operation for the treatment of vesicovaginal fistula; also describes “Sims’s position, the knee–chest position. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 677-712.
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.
1852
#13308
The people's medical lighthouse; a series of popular and scientific essays on the nature, uses, and diseases of the lungs, heart, liver, stomach, kidneys, womb and blood; also a key to the causes, prevention, remedies, and cure of pumonary and other kinds of consumption;....Marriage guide....
One of the more comprehensive American works on popular medicine from the mid-19th century, frequently reprinted. The author, who published the work himself from his address in New York City, describes himself as A.M.…
1853
#6039
The surgical treatment of certain fibrous tumours of the uterus.
Atlee was among the first to study the surgical removal of uterine fibroids.
1853
#6260
Das schräg-ovale Becken.
Litzmann (see also No. 6263) described in this work the coxalgic, scoliotic and kyphoscoliotic forms of pelvis.
1854
#6040
Extirpation of the uterus and ovaries for sarcomatous disease.
First successful abdominal hysterectomy, 25 May, 1853. An account of Burnham’s work is given by J. C. Irish in Trans. Amer. med. Ass. 1878, 29, 447-61.
1854
#6041
Ueber die Heilung der Blasen-Scheidenfisteln.
Simon is perhaps best remembered as being the first in Europe to excise the kidney; he also wrote a fine monograph on vesico-vaginal fistula.
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.