1703 FREIND, John (1675 – 1728)
Emmenologia: In qua fluxus mulierbris menstrui phaenomena, periodi, vitia cum medendi methodo, ad rationes mechanicas exiguntur.
Translated into English as Emmenologia: Written, in Latin, by the late learned Dr. John Freind. Translated into English by Thomas Dale, M.D. London: Printed for T. Cox, 1729. Digital facsimile of the 1752 English tran…
GMN 11667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13868
1834 GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (1783 – 1872)
Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.
Concerns miscarriage and aberrant gestation rather than removal or expulsion of embryo or fetus. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 14017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16324
1865 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)
On the treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility, resulting from anteflexion of the uterus.
Emmet, a disciple of Sims, was an outstanding gynecological surgeon.
GMN 6055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7404
1872 PRIESTLEY, Sir William Overend (1829 – 1901)
Cases of intermenstrual or intermediate dysmenorrhoea.
First report of cases of Mittelschmerz.
GMN 6065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7434
1877 JACOBI, Mary Corinna Putnam (1842 – 1906)
The question of rest for women during menstruation.The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876.
"Jacobi's paper was a response to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's earlier publication, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1875), a book claiming that any physical or mental exertion during menstruation could le…
GMN 11912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14117
1919 SCHROEDER, Robert (1884 – 1959)
Die pathogenese der Meno- und besonders der Metrorrhagien.
First description of metropathia hemorrhagica.
GMN 6126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7604
1933 KAUFMANN, Carl
Die Behandlung der Amenorrhoë mit hohen Dosen der Ovarialhormone.
First use of estrogenic hormone for the treatment of amenorrhea in ovariectomized women, with production of the typical cyclical endometrial changes.
GMN 1199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1818
1935 STEIN, Irving Freiler (1887 – 1976); LEVENTHAL, Michael Leo (1901 – 1971)
Amenorrhea associated with bilateral polycystic ovaries.
Stein–Leventhal syndrome.
GMN 6132.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7643
