1857 FERGUSSON, Sir William (1808 – 1877)
System of practical surgery. 4th ed.
Fergusson’s vaginal speculum is described on p. 724.
GMN 6043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7360
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
1858 NOEGGERATH, Emil Oscar Jacob Bruno (1827 – 1895)
On epicystotomy.
Noeggerath, who devised the operation of epicystotomy, spent many years in America, where he became a leading gynecologist and obstetrician.
GMN 6044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7367
1858 WAGNER, Ernst Leberecht (1829 – 1888)
Der Gebärmutterkrebs.
In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.
GMN 6045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7370
1858 MARCÉ, Louis Victor (1828 – 1864)
Traité de la folie des femmes enceintes, des nouvelles accouchées et des nourrices et considérations médico-légales qui se rattachent à ce sujet.
The first work on psychiatric illnesses of women during and after pregnancy. Marcé provided extensive clinical descriptions of syndromes, with 79 case examples, and summarized etiological theories and treatments chara…
GMN 11133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13329
1859 AYRES, Daniel (1822 – 1892)
Congenital exstrophy of the urinary bladder, complicated with prolapsus uteri following pregnancy; successfully treated by a new plastic operation.
First successful plastic operation for exstrophy of the female bladder.
GMN 6046 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7373
1860 HODGE, Hugh Lenox (1796 – 1873)
On diseases peculiar to women, including displacements of the uterus.
Chapter 5 includes a lengthy description of the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6185.
GMN 6043.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7364
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
1860 –1862 BERNUTZ, Gustave Louis Richard (1819 – 1887); GOUPIL, Jean Ernest (1829 – 1864)
Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols.
One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1867.
GMN 6048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7381
1860 CREDÉ, Carl Siegmund Franz (1819 – 1892)
De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.
Credé’s method of removing the placenta by external manual expression. It is first mentioned in his Klinische Vorträge über Geburtshilfe, Berlin, 1854, 599-603.
GMN 6183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7514
1861 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)
Amputation of the cervix uteri.
Sims’s method for amputating the cervix.
GMN 6049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7385
1861 BRAUN, Gustav August (1829 – 1911)
Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.
Braun’s decapitation hook.
GMN 6184 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7516
1861 LITZMANN, Carl Conrad Theodor (1815 – 1890)
Die Formen des Beckens, insbesondere des engen weiblichen Beckens.
Litzmann devised a clinical classification of pelves which was for many years generally used, and he described various deformities of the female pelvis.
GMN 6263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7967
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
1862 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)
On vaginismus.
GMN 6050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7386
1863 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)
De l’ovariotomie.
The introduction of ovariotomy into France was in part due to Koeberlé. He made great advances in gynecological operative technique.
GMN 6051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7389
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
1863 WILLUGHBY, Percivall (1596 – 1685); BLENKINSOP, Henry (1813 – 1866)
Observations in midwifery. As also The countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum
First edition of this work written in English in the 17th century, privately published in 1863, supposedly in an edition of 100 copies, from a manuscript then owned by Blenkinsop. Willughby has been characterized as "…
GMN 14136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16448
1864 CLAY, Charles (1801 – 1893)
Observations on ovariotomy, statistical and practical. Also, a successful case of entire removal of the uterus and its appendages.
For many years Clay was the most eminent ovariotomist in Great Britain. In all, he performed 395 ovariotomies, with a mortality of 25 percent.
GMN 6054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7401
1864 HODGE, Hugh Lenox (1796 – 1873)
The principles and practice of obstetrics.
Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completion of aborti…
GMN 6185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7519
1864 HICKS, John Braxton (1823 – 1897)
On combined external and internal version.
Introduction of combined podalic version.
GMN 6186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7520
1865 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)
Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.
GMN 6053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7396
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
1865 WELLS, Sir Thomas Spencer (1818 – 1897)
Diseases of the ovaries.
Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858. The title page to this work states that a second volume would be published. By the time Wells issued the intended…
GMN 6056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7407
1865 SCHULTZE, Bernhard Sigmund (1827 – 1919)
Wandtafeln zur Schwangerschafts- und Geburtskunde. Text volume in quarto format plus atlas in double elephant folio format (915 x 650mm.)
This huge atlas of obstetric wall charts contains 20 chromolithographed plates measuring over 3 feet by 2 feet, illustrating the female reproductive anatomy, stages of pregnancy, normal and breech presentations of the…
GMN 10273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12464
1866 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)
Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.
A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…
GMN 6057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7410
1867 GUERNSEY, Henry Newell (1817 – 1885)
The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9026
1867 OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.
“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the property of…
GMN 11641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13842
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
1868 THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903)
A practical treatise on diseases of women.
The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.
GMN 6060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7421
1868 HICKS, John Braxton (1823 – 1897)
On the condition of the uterus in obstructed labour.
GMN 6187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7525
1869 RIZZOLI, Francesco (1809 – 1880)
Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.
Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…
GMN 5610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7129
1869 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)
Surgery of the cervix in connection with the treatment of certain uterine diseases.
Surgical repair of lacerations of the cervix.
GMN 6059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7418
1870 THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903)
Vaginal ovariotomy.
First vaginal ovariotomy.
GMN 6061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7424
1870 THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903)
Gastro-elytrotomy; a substitute for the Caesarean section.
Thomas revived and modified Ritgen’s operation.
GMN 6239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7891
1871 LITZMANN, Carl Conrad Theodor (1815 – 1890)
Ueber die hintere Scheitelbeinstellung, eine nicht selten Art von fehlerhafter Einstellung des Kopfes unter der Geburt.
“Litzmann’s obliquity” or posterior parietal presentation.
GMN 6263.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7969
1872 BATTEY, Robert (1828 – 1895)
Normal ovariotomy.
Battey’s ovariotomy operation for the treatment of non-ovarian conditions. This operation later acquired a greater significance in connection with more modern work on endocrinology. Preliminary communication in J. gyn…
GMN 6062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7426
1872 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)
Chronic cystitis in the female, and mode of treatment.
Vaginal cystotomy for chronic cystitis.
GMN 6063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7427
1872 NOEGGERATH, Emil Oscar Jacob Bruno (1827 – 1895)
Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.
Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.
GMN 6064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7430
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
1872 BRAUNE, Christian Wilhelm (1831 – 1892)
Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern
Supplement to No. 424.
GMN 6188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7527
1872 HICKS, John Braxton (1823 – 1897)
On the contractions of the uterus throughout pregnancy: Their physiological effects and their value in the diagnosis of pregnancy.
“Braxton Hicks’s sign”.
GMN 6189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7532
1872 AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
English midwives.
Reprinted with biographical sketch by J. L. Thornton, London, 1967.
GMN 6282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8007
1872 VAN DE WARKER, Edward Ely (1841 – 1910)
The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15431
1876 MARTIN, August Eduard (1847 – 1933)
Zur Enucleation der intraparietalen Myome des Corpus uteri.
GMN 6066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7439
1876 BANDL, Ludwig (1842 – 1892)
Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.
“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague.
GMN 6190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7535
1876 PARRY, John Stubbs (1843 – 1876)
Extra-uterine pregnancy.
Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so.
GMN 6191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7537
1876 PORRO, Edoardo (1842 – 1902)
Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo.
Caesarean section with excision of the uterus and adnexa (“Porro’s operation”).
GMN 6240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7892
1877 CHIARI, Hans (1851 – 1916)
Uber drei Fälle von primärem Carcinom im Fundus und Corpus des Uterus.
Choriocarcinoma first reported.
GMN 6066.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7442
