1866 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)

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…

GMN 6057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7410

1942 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); HERTIG, Arthur Tremain (1904 – 1990)

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.

GMN 532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1696

1944 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); MENKIN, Miriam Friedman (1901 – 1992)

In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.

First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.

GMN 532.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1698

1951 CHANG, Min Chueh (1908 – 1991)

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 …

GMN 532.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1700

1959 CHANG, Min Chueh (1908 – 1991)

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.

GMN 532.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1701

1969 EDWARDS, Robert Geoffrey (1925 – 2013); BAVISTER, B. D.; STEPTOE, Patrick Christopher (1913 – 1988)

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."

GMN 532.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1703

1978 EDWARDS, Robert Geoffrey (1925 – 2013); STEPTOE, Patrick Christopher (1913 – 1988)

Birth after the reimplantation of a human embryo. (Letter to the editor).

First successful human birth after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.

GMN 532.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1704

2017 OREN-MAGIDOR, Daphna

Infertility in early modern England.

GMN 10754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12950

2018 KOVACS, Gabor T. (1947 – ); BRINSDEN, Peter Robert (1940 – ); DECHERNEY, Alan Hersh

In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.

Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.

GMN 10696 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12889