1663 ROONHUYZE, Hendrick van (1622 – 1672)

Heel-konstige aanmerkkingen betreffende de gebreeken der vrouwen.

Roonhuyze’s book is regarded as the first work on operative gynecology in the modern sense. He successfully performed caesarean section several times, and he used retractors for the repair of vesicovaginal fistulae. E…

GMN 6015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7207

1834 GOSSET, Montague (1792 – 1854)

Calculus in the bladder. Incontinence of urine. Vesico-vaginal fistula. Advantages of the gilt-wire suture.

Gosset repaired a vesicovaginal fistula of eleven years’ duration, using silver gilt-wire, removed after 9, 12 and 21 days respectively.

GMN 6028.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7306

1839 HAYWARD, George (1791 – 1863)

Case of vesico-vaginal fistula, successfully treated by an operation.

Hayward’s successful treatment of vesicovaginal fistula was performed after Mettauer’s, although reported earlier.

GMN 6030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7314

1840 METTAUER, John Peter (1787 – 1875)

Vesico-vaginal fistula.

The first successful operation for vesicovaginal fistula is believed to be that performed in August 1838, by Mettauer, a Virginian gynecologist. He introduced metallic sutures and a retention catheter.

GMN 6031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7316

1852 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)

On the treatment of vesico-vaginal fistula.

Original description of Sims’s operation for the treatment of vesicovaginal fistula; also describes “Sims’s position, the knee–chest position. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 677-712.

GMN 6037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7340

1854 SIMON, Gustav (1824 – 1876)

Ueber die Heilung der Blasen-Scheidenfisteln.

Simon is perhaps best remembered as being the first in Europe to excise the kidney; he also wrote a fine monograph on vesico-vaginal fistula.

GMN 6041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7352

1860 ATLEE, Washington Lemuel (1808 – 1878)

Case of successful operation for vesico-vaginal fistula.

Atlee’s operation for vesicovaginal fistula.

GMN 6047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7377

1868 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)

Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.

A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.

GMN 6058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7414