1877 HEGAR, Ernest Ludwig Alfred (1830 – 1914)
Ueber die Exstirpation normaler und nicht zu umfänglichen Tumoren degenerirter Eierstöcke.
Hegar developed Battey’s operation (No. 6062) and employed it for the treatment of various ovarian conditions.
GMN 6067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7445
1877 LE FORT, Léon Clément (1829 – 1893)
Noveau procédé pour la guérison du prolapsus utérin.
Le Fort’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7447
1877 RUGE, Carl Arnold (1846 – 1926); VEIT, Johann (1852 – 1917)
Anatomische Bedeutung der Erosionen am Scheidentheil.
GMN 6069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7449
1877 TARNIER, Étienne Stéphane (1828 – 1897)
Description de deux nouveaux forceps.
Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64
GMN 6192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7540
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
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
1878 PINARD, Adolphe (1844 – 1934)
Traité du palper abdominal au point de vue obstétrical.
Pinard, professor of obstetrics in Paris, showed the importance of abdominal palpation as an aid to obstetrical diagnosis. English translation, 1885.
GMN 6193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7542
1879 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
Removal of normal ovaries.
Lawson Tait reported that he had performed Battey’s operation on 1 August 1872, 16 days before Battey. See No. 6062.
GMN 6071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7455
1879 CZERNY, Vincenz (1842 – 1916)
Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses.
First total hysterectomy by the vaginal route.
GMN 6072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7459
1879 DUNCAN, James Matthews (1826 – 1890)
Clinical lecture on hepatic disease in gynaecology and obstetrics.
Matthews Duncan pointed out that pernicious vomiting in pregnancy may be associated with hepatic lesions.
GMN 6194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7544
1879 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
Septicémie puerpérale.
Description of the streptococcus of puerperal sepsis.
GMN 6278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7997
1880 STEVENSON, Sarah Ann Hackett (1841 – 1909)
The physiology of woman, embracing girlhood, maternity, and mature age, with essays on the "Coeducation of the sexes in medicine," "The physiological basis of education," "Temperance from a physician's point of view, and "A plea for moderation."
Stevenson was the first woman member of the American Medical Association (AMA), the first woman appointed on the Illinois State Board of Health, and the first woman to be on staff at the Cook County Hospital in Chicag…
GMN 13169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15429
1881 CZERNY, Vincenz (1842 – 1916)
Ueber die Enukleation subperitonealer Fibrome der Gebärmutter durch das Scheidengewölbe; vaginale Myoniotomie.
The operation of enucleation of subperitoneal uterine fibroids by the vaginal route was introduced by Czerny. In the second paper the words “Fibromyome” and “Myomotomie” replace “Fibrome” and “Myoniotomie” in the title.
GMN 6073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7461
1881 SCHRÖDER, Karl Ludwig Ernst (1838 – 1887)
Ueber die theilweise und vollständige Ausschneidung der carcinomatösen Gebärmutter.
GMN 6074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7465
1881 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
A case of removal of the uterine appendages.
Oöphorectomy, February 1881.
GMN 6075 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7467
1881 CREDÉ, Carl Siegmund Franz (1819 – 1892)
Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.
Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin: A. Hi…
GMN 5924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7555
1882 ADAMS, James Alexander (1857 – 1930)
A new operation for uterine displacements.
Adams devised an operation for retroversion of the uterus, similar to that performed by Alexander (No. 6077).
GMN 6076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7469
1882 ALEXANDER, William (1844 – 1919)
A new method of treating inveterate and troublesome displacements of the uterus.
Alexander’s suspension operation for retroversion of the uterus, first performed by him in 1881.
GMN 6077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7471
1882 KEHRER, Ferdinand Adolf (1837 – 1914)
Ueberein modificirtes Verfahren beim Kaiserschnitte.
Kehrer improved the technique of the Caesarean operation.
GMN 6241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7920
1882 SÄNGER, Max (1853 – 1903)
Der Kaiserschnitt bei Uterusfibromen nebst vergleichender Methodik der Sectio Caesarea und der Porro-Operation.
“Sänger’s operation” – the so-called “classic Caesarean section”. A preliminary note is in Arch. Gynak., 1882, 19, 370.
GMN 6242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7921
1882 ENGELMANN, George Julius (1847 – 1903)
Labor among primitive peoples.
Third edition, revised, 1884.
GMN 6284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8011
1882 AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.
GMN 6283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8964
1882 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)
Sorani gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina. Nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum codicem Parisiensem nunc recognitis a Valentino Rose.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14410
1884 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)
A study of the etiology of perineal laceration, with a new method for its proper repair.
First description of Emmet’s technique for perineorrhaphy.
GMN 6078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7472
1884 APOSTOLI, Georges (1847 – 1900)
Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.
Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.
GMN 6079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7477
1884 SCHRÖDER, Karl Ludwig Ernst (1838 – 1887)
Ueber die Enucleation interstitieller Myome.
GMN 6080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7479
1884 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.
Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.
GMN 6081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7481
1884 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
Five cases of extra-uterine pregnancy operated upon at the time of rupture.
The first successful operation for ruptured ectopic pregnancy was performed by Lawson Tait on 1 March 1883.
GMN 6196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7556
1885 BREISKY, August (1832 – 1889)
Ueber Kraurosis vulvae, eine wenig beachtete Form von Hautatrophie am pudendum muliebre.
Although not the first to describe kraurosis vulvae, Breisky left an important account, and the condition became known as “Breisky’s disease”.
GMN 6082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7483
1885 NEUGEBAUER, Franz Ludwig [Franciszek Ludwik Neugebauer] (1856 – 1914)
Neuer Beitrag zur Aetiologie und Casuistik der Spondyl-olisthesis.
GMN 6264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7971
1886 OLSHAUSEN, Robert Michaelis von (1835 – 1915)
Ueber ventrale Operation bei Prolapsus und Retroversio uteri.
First account of Olshausen’s operation for retroversion of the uterus.
GMN 6083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7485
1886 PÉAN, Jules-Émile (1830 – 1898)
Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.
Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.
GMN 6084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7487
1887 BOZEMAN, Nathan (1825 – 1905)
The gradual preparatory treatment of the complications of urinary and faecal fistulae in women.
Pyelitis complicating vesical and fecal fistulae in women was successfully treated by Bozeman.
GMN 6085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7488
1887 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Hysterorrhaphy.
GMN 6086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7489
1887 –1888 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.
Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.
GMN 6087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7491
1887 WERTH, Richard (1850 – 1918)
Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
GMN 6197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7560
1887 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les accouchements à la cour.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8013
1887 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.
182-page appendix: "L'arsenal obstétrical", containing numerous illustrations of instruments, at end. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8015
1888 CHAMPETIER DE RIBES, Camille Louis Antoine (1848 – 1935)
De l’accouchement provoqué; dilatation du canal génital (col de l’utérus, vagin et vulve) à l’aide de ballons introduits dans la cavité utérine pendant la grossesse.
The “Champetier de Ribes bag”.
GMN 6198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7563
1888 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele.
GMN 6199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7565
1888 CARRIER, Henriette
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15742
1889 SÄNGER, Max (1853 – 1903)
Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.
GMN 6088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7493
1889 WALCHER, Gustav Adolf (1856 – 1935)
Die Conjugata eines engen Beckens ist keine konstante Grosse, sondem lässt sich durch die Körperhaltung der Trägerin verändem.
Description of the “Walcher position”.
GMN 6200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7568
1889 CHAMPNEYS, Sir Francis Henry (1848 – 1930)
A case of Caesarean section for contracted pelvis.
Champney’s advocacy for the Sänger operation was a powerful factor in its adoption in Britain.
GMN 6243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7922
1889 HALBERTSMA, Tjalling (1841 – 1898)
Eclampsia gravidarum: eene nieuwe indicatie voor sectie caesarea.
Halbertsma first performed Caesarean section in puerperal convulsions.
GMN 6244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7924
1890 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
Ueber Blasenscheidenfisteloperationen und über Beckenhochlagerung bei Operationen in der Bauchhöhle.
Includes an account of his attempt, 1886, to cure hydronephrosis by a plastic operation – the first recorded surgical intervention for the relief of this condition. Includes description of the “Trendelenburg position”…
GMN 4222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6313
1890 PFANNENSTIEL, Hermann Johann (1862 – 1909)
Ueber die Pseudomucine der cystischen Ovariengeschwülste.
GMN 6089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7495
1890 PRICE, Joseph (1853 – 1911)
Pus in the pelvis and how to deal with it.
GMN 6090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7496
1890 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
An address on the surgical aspect of impacted labour.
The Tait–Porro operation, by which Tait performed Caesarean section in cases of placenta previa.
GMN 6245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7926
1891 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
Contributions to the histogenesis of the papillary cystoma of the ovary.
GMN 6092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7504
