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551 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615]
1854
#6182
Difficult labors and their treatment.
Wright was responsible for the introduction of combined cephalic version.
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”.
1855
#6042
Successful case of extirpation of the uterus.
First successful abdominal hysteroscopic myomectomy (for fibromyoma), 1 September 1853.
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 …
1855
#7545
Physical, sexual and natural religion: by a student of medicine.
Drysdale emphasized that sexual intercourse should be pleasurable for both sexes, but believed that the ever-present possibility of pregnancy prevented it from being so. He also believed that overpopulation itself was…
1856
#13687
Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.
Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…
1857
#6043
System of practical surgery. 4th ed.
Fergusson’s vaginal speculum is described on p. 724.
1858
#5605
Silver sutures in surgery.
Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037.
1858
#6044
On epicystotomy.
Noeggerath, who devised the operation of epicystotomy, spent many years in America, where he became a leading gynecologist and obstetrician.
1858
#6045
Der Gebärmutterkrebs.
In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.
1858
#11133
Traité de la folie des femmes enceintes, des nouvelles accouchées et des nourrices et considérations médico-légales qui se rattachent à ce sujet.
The first work on psychiatric illnesses of women during and after pregnancy. Marcé provided extensive clinical descriptions of syndromes, with 79 case examples, and summarized etiological theories and treatments chara…
1859
#6046
Congenital exstrophy of the urinary bladder, complicated with prolapsus uteri following pregnancy; successfully treated by a new plastic operation.
First successful plastic operation for exstrophy of the female bladder.
1859
#7720
The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married: on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth.
Possibly the most enlightened, and detailed book on sex, reproduction, and contraception published during this period; illustrated in color. In addition to outlining the era's five most reliable methods of contracepti…
1860
#6043.1
On diseases peculiar to women, including displacements of the uterus.
Chapter 5 includes a lengthy description of the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6185.
1860
#6047
Case of successful operation for vesico-vaginal fistula.
Atlee’s operation for vesicovaginal fistula.
1860 –1862
#6048
Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols.
One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1867.
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
#6049
Amputation of the cervix uteri.
Sims’s method for amputating the cervix.
1861
#6184
Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.
Braun’s decapitation hook.
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.
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…
1861 –1862
#13270
(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.
Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of the fi…
1862
#2166.1
Notes on arrow wounds.
The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …
1862
#6050
On vaginismus.
1863
#6051
De l’ovariotomie.
The introduction of ovariotomy into France was in part due to Koeberlé. He made great advances in gynecological operative technique.
1863
#6052
Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.
First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.
1863
#14136
Observations in midwifery. As also The countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum
First edition of this work written in English in the 17th century, privately published in 1863, supposedly in an edition of 100 copies, from a manuscript then owned by Blenkinsop. Willughby has been characterized as "…
1864
#6054
Observations on ovariotomy, statistical and practical. Also, a successful case of entire removal of the uterus and its appendages.
For many years Clay was the most eminent ovariotomist in Great Britain. In all, he performed 395 ovariotomies, with a mortality of 25 percent.
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.
1865
#6053
Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.
1865
#6055
On the treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility, resulting from anteflexion of the uterus.
Emmet, a disciple of Sims, was an outstanding gynecological surgeon.
1865
#6056
Diseases of the ovaries.
Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858. The title page to this work states that a second volume would be published. By the time Wells issued the intended…
1865
#10273
Wandtafeln zur Schwangerschafts- und Geburtskunde. Text volume in quarto format plus atlas in double elephant folio format (915 x 650mm.)
This huge atlas of obstetric wall charts contains 20 chromolithographed plates measuring over 3 feet by 2 feet, illustrating the female reproductive anatomy, stages of pregnancy, normal and breech presentations of the…
1866
#6057
Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.
A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…
1867
#6862
The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
1867
#11641
Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.
“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the property of…
1868
#6058
Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.
A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.
1868
#6060
A practical treatise on diseases of women.
The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.
1868
#6187
On the condition of the uterus in obstructed labour.
1869
#5610
Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.
Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…
1869
#6059
Surgery of the cervix in connection with the treatment of certain uterine diseases.
Surgical repair of lacerations of the cervix.
1870
#6061
Vaginal ovariotomy.
First vaginal ovariotomy.
1870
#6239
Gastro-elytrotomy; a substitute for the Caesarean section.
Thomas revived and modified Ritgen’s operation.
1871
#6263.1
Ueber die hintere Scheitelbeinstellung, eine nicht selten Art von fehlerhafter Einstellung des Kopfes unter der Geburt.
“Litzmann’s obliquity” or posterior parietal presentation.
1872
#6062
Normal ovariotomy.
Battey’s ovariotomy operation for the treatment of non-ovarian conditions. This operation later acquired a greater significance in connection with more modern work on endocrinology. Preliminary communication in J. gyn…
1872
#6063
Chronic cystitis in the female, and mode of treatment.
Vaginal cystotomy for chronic cystitis.
1872
#6064
Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.
Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.
1872
#6065
Cases of intermenstrual or intermediate dysmenorrhoea.
First report of cases of Mittelschmerz.