1521 BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460 – 1530)

Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia Mundini una cum textu ejusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto.

Giacomo Berengario da Carpi (Jacobus Berengarius Carpensis, Jacopo Barigazzi, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi or simply Carpus) introduced iconography and independent anatomical observation into the teaching of anatomy. H…

GMN 367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/441

1838 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold (1805 – 1836)

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…

GMN 6008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7178

1854 BURNHAM, Walter (1808 – 1883)

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.

GMN 6040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7349

1863 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

GMN 6052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7393

1878 FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

GMN 6070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7451

1879 CZERNY, Vincenz (1842 – 1916)

Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses.

First total hysterectomy by the vaginal route.

GMN 6072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7459

1892 BAER, Benjamin Franklin (1846 – 1920)

Supravaginal hysterectomy without ligature of the cervix, in operation for uterine fibroids; a new method.

Baer’s operation.

GMN 6093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7506

1892 HENROTIN, Fernand (1847 – 1906)

Vaginal hysterectomy in bilateral peri-uterine suppuration.

Henrotin’s method of removing the uterus.

GMN 6095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7517

1897 FAURE, Jean Louis (1863 – 1944)

Sur un nouveau procédé d’hystérectomie abdominale totale; la section médiane de l’utérus.

GMN 6105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7538

1908 SCHAUTA, Friedrich (1849 – 1919)

Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.

Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.

GMN 6120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7577