1825 RITGEN, Ferdinand August Marie Franz (1787 – 1867)
Geschichte eines mit ungünstigem Erfolge verrichteten Bauchscheidenschnitts und Folgerung daraus.
Ritgen first performed extraperitoneal Caesarean section in 1821.
GMN 6238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7890
1825 NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
Das weibliche Becken.
GMN 6256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7951
1825 DAVIS, David Daniel (1777 – 1841)
Elements of operative midwifery.
Davis introduced a number of improvements in instruments and techniques: “It outlines rules and precautions for undertaking operations, described the use of various forms of forceps, and provided twenty detailed plate…
GMN 14215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16531
1826 DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
A treatise on the diseases of females.
First American textbook on gynecology.
GMN 6026.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7249
1827 BOIVIN, Marie Anne Victoire (1773 – 1841)
Nouvelles recherches sur l’origine, la nature et le traitement de la mole vésiculaire ou grossesse hydatique.
Classic description of hydatidiform mole.
GMN 6172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7766
1829 STRACHAN, John B.
Case of successful excision of the cervis uteri in a scirrhous state.
First successful excision of the cervix in America. Reported by T. F. Gillan.
GMN 6027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7251
1833 BOIVIN, Marie Anne Victoire (1773 – 1841); DUGÈS, Antoine Louis (1798 – 1838)
Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.
Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.
GMN 6028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7255
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
1834 ROUX, Philibert Joseph (1780 – 1854)
Mémoire sur la restauration du périnée chez la femme dans les cas de division ou de rupture complète de cette partie.
Roux was the first to suture the ruptured female perineum.
GMN 6029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7311
1834 DELACOUX, Alexis
Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13348
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
1837 MONTGOMERY, William Fetherston (1797 – 1859)
An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy.
“Montgomery’s glands”, the sebaceous glands of the areola, were previously described by Morgagni. They are described, with his “tubercles” (the secondary areola seen in pregnancy) in the above work.
GMN 6173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7768
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
1838 JACQUEMIER, Jean Marie (1806 – 1879)
Recherches d’anatomie et de physiologie sur le système vasculaire sanguin de l’utérus humain pendant la gestation, et plus spécialement sur les vaisseaux utero-placentaires.
Jacquemier’s sign, diagnostic of pregnancy.
GMN 6174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7770
1838 NAEGELE, Hermann Franz Joseph (1810 – 1858)
Die geburtshülfiche Auscultation
Pioneering work on obstetric auscultation, including the sounds of the foetal heart. English translation by C. West, London, 1839.
GMN 6175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7772
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
1839 NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
Das schräg verengte Becken nebst einem Anhange über die wichtigsten Fehler des weiblichen Beckens überhaupt.
First description of the obliquely contracted pelvis, or “Naegele pelvis”. Because of its rarity and the difficulty of recognizing it clinically in living subjects, the obliquely contracted pelvis, with its most often…
GMN 6257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7953
1839 ROKITANSKY, Carl Freiherr von (1804 – 1878)
Beyträge zur Kenntniss der Rückgrathskrümmungen, und der mit demselben zusammentreffenden Abweichungen des Brustkorbes und Beckens.
Original description of spondylolisthesis.
GMN 6258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7956
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
1840 WILTON, William (1809 – 1899)
Hydatids, terminating fatally, by haemorrhage.
First report of a chorionic tumor.
GMN 6031.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7319
1841 MATTSON, Morris
The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.
The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12917
1842 CLAY, Charles (1801 – 1893)
Cases of peritoneal section, for the extirpation of diseased ovaria, by the large incision from sternum to pubes, successfully treated.
Clay, pioneer ovariotomist in Great Britain, introduced the word “ovariotomy”. (See also his later paper, No. 6054.)
GMN 6032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7323
1842 –1843 RÉCAMIER, Joseph Claude Anthelme (1774 – 1852)
Invention du spéculum plein et brisé.
Description of the speculum invented by Récamier.
GMN 6033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7326
1842 –1843 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
The contagiousness of puerperal fever.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first to establish the contagious nature of puerperal fever. His essay on the subject took a strong line against the opinions then prevailing, stirring up violent opposition among the obs…
GMN 6274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7989
1843 ATLEE, John Light (1799 – 1885)
Case of ovarian tumors – both the right and the left being removed at the same operation.
First successful double oöphorectomy. Communicated in a letter to the editor by J. M. Foltz.
GMN 6034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7329
1843 SIMPSON, Sir James Young (1811 – 1870)
Contributions to the pathology and treatment of disease of the uterus.
Simpson introduced many important procedures into gynecology and obstetrics; among them may be mentioned his use of the uterine sound for diagnosing retro-positions of the uterus
GMN 6035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7331
1843 LEVER, John Charles Weaver (1811 – 1858)
Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.
Lever, of Guy’s Hospital, was the first to report the finding of albuminous urine in connection with puerperal convulsions.
GMN 6176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7773
1844 –1845 DONNÉ, Alfred François (1801 – 1878); FOUCAULT, Jean Bernard Léon (1819 – 1868)
Cours de microscopie. 1 vol. and atlas.
Donne's and Foucault's work was the first biomedical textbook to be illustrated with images made from photomicrographs, in this case daguerreotypes of blood cells. Among its noteworthy images are the first microphotog…
GMN 267.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8743
1844 HALMAGRAND, Charles-Nicolas (1803 – 1892)
Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15888
1845 BENNET, James Henry (1816 – 1891)
A practical treatise on inflammation, ulceration, and induration of the neck of the uterus.
Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumors.
GMN 6036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7335
1847 –1848 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865)
Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.
Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicemia. He concluded that the doctors and students of Vienna’s First Obstetrical Clinic carried the infection o…
GMN 6275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7990
1847 LOHMAN, Ann Trow (Madam Restell) (1812 – 1878); LOHMAN, Charles M.
The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility
Published pseudonymously by radical printer Charles Lohman who was married to the abortionist/entrpreneur Ann Lohman known as "Madame Restell." The Lohmans also sold condoms. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Libra…
GMN 13469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15743
1849 MEIGS, Charles Delucena (1792 – 1869)
The heart-clot.
Meigs drew attention to embolism as a cause of sudden death in childbed. Previously such deaths had been attributed to syncope.
GMN 6177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7774
1851 ATLEE, Washington Lemuel (1808 – 1878)
A table of all the known operations of ovariotomy. From 1701-1851.
Atlee is said to have performed ovariotomy 387 times; with his brother John he firmly established the operation in the U.S.A.
GMN 6038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7342
1851 NÉLATON, Auguste (1807 – 1873)
Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.
Classic description of pelvic hematocele.
GMN 6178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7775
1851 MICHAELIS, Gustav Adolf (1798 – 1848)
Das enge Becken: nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen.
First important work dealing with pelvic deformities since the time of van Deventer. It is a pioneer work in the literature dealing with pelvic architecture; Michaelis was one of the first to differentiate between the…
GMN 6259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7958
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
1852 DUBOIS, Paul Anton (1795 – 1871)
Considérations sur l’avortement provoqué dans les cas de vomissements.
Classic description of hyperemesis gravidarum.
GMN 6179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7503
1852 TALIAFERRO, Valentine Ham (1831 – 1888)
Rigidity of the soft parts – delivery effected by incision in the perineum.
First episiotomy in America, 2 December 1851.
GMN 6180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7505
1853 ATLEE, Washington Lemuel (1808 – 1878)
The surgical treatment of certain fibrous tumours of the uterus.
Atlee was among the first to study the surgical removal of uterine fibroids.
GMN 6039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7346
1853 LITZMANN, Carl Conrad Theodor (1815 – 1890)
Das schräg-ovale Becken.
Litzmann (see also No. 6263) described in this work the coxalgic, scoliotic and kyphoscoliotic forms of pelvis.
GMN 6260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7961
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
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
1854 DUNCAN, James Matthews (1826 – 1890)
On the displacements of the uterus.
“Duncan’s folds”, the peritoneal folds of the uterus. Republished in book form, Edinburgh, 1854. Duncan, a leading Edinburgh obstetrician, became lecturer on the subject at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
GMN 6181 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7508
1854 WRIGHT, Marmaduke Burr (1803 – 1879)
Difficult labors and their treatment.
Wright was responsible for the introduction of combined cephalic version.
GMN 6182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7510
1854 KILIAN, Hermann Friedrich (1800 – 1863)
Schilderungen neuer Beckenformen und ihres Verhaltens im Leben.
First description of pelvis spinosa.
GMN 6261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7963
1854 KILIAN, Hermann Friedrich (1800 – 1863)
De spondylolisthesi gravissimae pelvangustiae causa nuper detecta.
An important study of the spondylolisthetic pelvis, which Kilian called “pelvis obtecta”.
GMN 6262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7964
1855 KIMBALL, Gilman (1804 – 1892)
Successful case of extirpation of the uterus.
First successful abdominal hysteroscopic myomectomy (for fibromyoma), 1 September 1853.
GMN 6042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7356
1855 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
Puerperal fever, as a private pestilence.
Because his first paper (No. 6274) had been published in a short-lived journal with very small circulation, Holmes enlarged his famous essay on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, and in this reiteration mentioned …
GMN 6276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7992
1856 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.
Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…
GMN 13687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15969
