1773 WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
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…
GMN 6270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7980
1858 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)
Silver sutures in surgery.
Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037.
GMN 5605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7117
1861 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865)
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…
GMN 6277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7996
1861 –1862 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865)
(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…
GMN 13270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15536
1878 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
La théorie des germes et ses applications à la médecine et à la chirurgie. Lecture faite à l'Académie de médecine par M. Pasteur en son nom et au nom de MM. Joubert et Chamberland ....
In this speech Pasteur first introduced the term "germ theory" and defined its applications in medicine, surgery, and infectious disease. The speech was first published in condensed form in Comptes rendus...de l'Acadé…
GMN 14194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16510
1903 LIOSNER, S. (1876 – )
Du masque opératoire. Thèse presentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine du Montpellier....
The medical thesis on medical and surgical masks by a woman medical student at Montpellier, who, as indicated on the title page, was born in Witebsk, Russia in 1876. She was also characterized as "Mlle." The thesis in…
GMN 13019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15269
1905 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865); GYÖRY, Tibor (1869 – 1938)
Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.
An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological papers an…
GMN 82.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1381
1936 LEMIERRE, André (1875 – 1956)
On certain septicemias due to anaerobic organisms.
"Lemierre's syndrome (or Lemierre's disease, also known as postanginal shock including sepsis and human necrobacillosis) refers to infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It most often develops as a …
GMN 9893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12081
1965 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912); LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.
Published as a 20-page pamphlet.
GMN 14338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16666
