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551 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615]
1939
#6304
The evolution of obstetric analgesia.
1939
#14053
A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.
The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…
1941
#6135
The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.
The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…
1941
#6232
Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics.
Amniotic fluid embolism described.
1942
#532
Some aspects of early human development.
Report of the youngest normal implanted fertilized human ovum, fertilization age about 7 1/2 days. Hertig and Rock published a more detailed study in Contr. Embryol. Carneg. Instn. 1945, 31, 65-84.
1942
#6232.1
Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.
1943
#5509
Congenital defects in infants following infectious diseases during pregnancy.
Figures demonstrating that rubella in the first or second month of pregnancy always results in an abnormal infant. With A. L. Tostevin, B. Moore, H. Mayo, and G. H. B. Black.
1943
#6305
The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.
Second edition, 1950.
1943
#13597
Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.
"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …
1944
#532.1
In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.
First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.
1944
#6306
History of gynecology.
1944
#6307
Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.
1945
#6233
Acute inversion of the uterus.
O’Sullivan’s method of replacement by intravaginal hydraulic pressure.
1945
#6309
One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.
1946
#12822
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), an annotated bibliography
1947
#6234
Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.
Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.
1947
#6311
The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.
Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
1949
#6310
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
1950
#13609
The role of urethra in female orgasm.
"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful orgasms a…
1951
#532.2
Fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa deposited into the Fallopian tubes.
Discovery that maturation of the sperm in the mammalian female tract is a necessary step in reproduction. This was co-discovered and called capacitation by Austin in the same year. See C.R. Austin, Observation on the …
1951
#12203
Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.
Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…
1952
#6235
A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.
1953
#1931.2
The effects of progesterone and related compounds on ovulation and early development in the rabbit.
First practical demonstration of an oral contraceptive.
1953
#11203
A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes
1954
#6311.1
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
1954
#7085
Steroids. LIV.Synthesis of 19-Nov-17α-ethynyltestosterone and 19-Nor-17α-methyltestosterone.
Synthesis of Norethisterone (or norethindrone) (or 19-nor-17α-ethynyltestosterone), the first highly active progestin analog that was effective when taken by mouth. This molecule became part of one of the first succes…
1955
#8391
The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.
A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…
1955
#9103
A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
1956
#9367
Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.
1958
#2682
Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed ultrasound.
Donald, J. MacVicar and T. G. Brown used an ultrasound scanner to investigate the pregnant abdomen (see also No. 6235.1).
1958
#6311.2
Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.
79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.
1959
#532.3
Fertilization of rabbit ova in vitro.
The birth of normal rabbits from in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer was the first proof that births resulting from this procedure are normal.
1961
#6235.1
Demonstration of tissue interfaces within the body by ultrasonic echo sounding.
Biparietal fetal cephalometry by ultrasound.
1963
#1671.6
Contraception through the ages.
1963
#6311.4
Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.
A continuation of No. 6303.
1964
#9535
A short history of midwifery.
Supplemented reprint of Cutter's "Historical sketch of the development of midwifery and gynecology," Obstetrics and Gynecology, edited by Arthur H. Curtis, I, 4-194 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1933).
1965
#11463
Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States.
1967
#6235.2
Intrauterine diagnosis and management of genetic defects.
Amniocentesis used to diagnose genetic disorders in utero. First detailed report. See also Fuchs, F., Genetic information from amniotic fluid contents. Lancet, 1960, 2, 180. "During the course of the criminal investig…
1967
#6311.5
Milestones in midwifery.
Reprinted with No. 6311, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
1968
#8776
Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.
1969
#532.4
Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes.
First successful in-vitro fertilization of human oocytes. In 2010 Robert Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization."
1970
#7783
Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.
In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.
1970
#10554
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
1973
#6311.6
Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.
French translation, 1976.
1975
#6610.11
The anatomical works of George Stubbs.
Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).
1976
#6742.8
The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.
1977
#12484
A history of childbirth in America.
Expanded edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
1977
#12554
Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.
1977
#13376
Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings
The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."
1978
#532.5
Birth after the reimplantation of a human embryo. (Letter to the editor).
First successful human birth after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.