1892 BAER, Benjamin Franklin (1846 – 1920)
Supravaginal hysterectomy without ligature of the cervix, in operation for uterine fibroids; a new method.
Baer’s operation.
GMN 6093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7506
1892 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
On the occurrence of pleural effusion in association with disease of the abdomen.
Lawson Tait was apparently the first to describe what is now known as Meigs’s syndrome (ovarian fibroma combined with pleural effusion).
GMN 6093.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7509
1892 HENROTIN, Fernand (1847 – 1906)
Vaginal hysterectomy in bilateral peri-uterine suppuration.
Henrotin’s method of removing the uterus.
GMN 6095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7517
1892 BOSSI, Luigi Maria (1859 – 1919)
Sulla provocazione artificiale del parto e sul parto forzato col mezzo della dilatazione meccanica del collouterino.
Bossi originated the method of induction of premature labour by means of forced dilatation of the cervix.
GMN 6201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7572
1892 BREUS, Carl (1852 – 1914)
Das tuberöse subchoriale Hämatom der Decidua. Eine typische Form der Molenschwangerschaft.
Tuberous (“Breus”) mole first described.
GMN 6202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7576
1892 WEBSTER, John Clarence (1863 – 1950)
Tubo peritoneal ectopic gestation.
GMN 6203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7580
1892 DÖDERLEIN, Albert Siegmund Gustav (1860 – 1941)
Das Scheidensekret und seine Bedeutung für das Puerperalfieber.
Döderlein's study of the vaginal secretion in relation to puerperal fever includes the first description of “Döderlein’s bacillus” (Lactobacillus). Döderlein introduced the concept of normal body bacteria or "normal b…
GMN 6279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7999
1892 WEBSTER, John Clarence (1863 – 1950)
Researches in female pelvic anatomy.
The first cross-sectional anatomy of the pelvic anatomy during the puerperium, the period of about six weeks after childbirth during which the mother's reproductive organs return to their original non-pregnant conditi…
GMN 10568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12761
1892 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Gynaecological technique: A brief summary of the principles involved, as well as the technique involved in the gynæcological operations performed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The significance of the operation and its technical surroundings to gynaecological practice.
Includes 14 photographic illustrations showing Kelly's gynecological operating room, antiseptic and aseptic apparatus, and his assistants preparing for surgery. The text includes descriptions of the apparatus and tech…
GMN 11634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13834
1893 SÄNGER, Max (1853 – 1903)
Ueber Sarcoma uteri deciduo-cellulare und andere deciduale Geschwülste.
A detailed classification of “deciduomata”, chorionic neoplasms, and a review of the literature.
GMN 6094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7512
1894 TARNIER, Étienne Stéphane (1828 – 1897)
De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.
Tarnier was the first to adopt Listerism in obstetrics. In the discussion following a paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., London, 1881, 4, 390-391, he showed that he was the first to employ carbolic acid solution in obs…
GMN 5639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7259
1894 GIGLI, Leonardo (1863 – 1908)
Taglio lateralizzato del pube, suoi vantaggi, sua technica.
Gigli’s saw, first used for pubiotomy. German translation, Zbl. Chir., 1894, 21, 409-11.
GMN 6204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7582
1894 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13317
1895 HENROTIN, Fernand (1847 – 1906)
Conservative surgical treatment of para- and peri-uterine septic diseases.
GMN 6096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7518
1895 KAHLDEN, Clemens von (1859 – 1903)
Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form des Ovarial carcinoms.
Granulosa cell tumor first described.
GMN 6097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7521
1895 MARCHAND, Felix Jacob (1846 – 1928)
Über die sogenannten “decidualen” Geschwülste im Anschluss an normale Geburt, Abort, Blasenmole und Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
Marchand’s theory of the histogenesis of choriocarcinoma (chorionepithelioma). He considered that such tumors derived from trophoblast and not from decidua.
GMN 6097.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7522
1895 OLSHAUSEN, Robert Michaelis von (1835 – 1915)
Über Exstirpation der Vagina.
The operation of excision of the vagina was introduced by Olshausen.
GMN 6098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7524
1895 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.
GMN 6099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7526
1895 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
Deciduoma malignum.
First case of choriocarcinoma reported in North America.
GMN 6100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7529
1895 HEGAR, Ernest Ludwig Alfred (1830 – 1914)
Diagnose der frühesten Schwangerschaftsperiode.
Hegar’s sign – softening of the lower segment of the uterus, an early diagnostic sign of pregnancy. It was first described by his assistant, C. Reinl, in Frag. med. Wscbr., 1884, 9, 253-54.
GMN 6205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7585
1896 KRUKENBERG, Friedrich Ernst (1870 – 1946)
Ueber das Fibrosarcoma ovarii mucocellulare (carcinomatodes).
Original description of “Krukenberg’s tumor”.
GMN 6101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7531
1896 MACKENRODT, Alwin Karl (1859 – 1925)
Ueber den künstlichen Ersatz der Scheide.
Mackenrodt’s operation for the plastic reconstruction of the vagina.
GMN 6102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7533
1896 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Über Blasen-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim demonstrated the gonococcus in acute cystitis.
GMN 6103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7536
1897 FAURE, Jean Louis (1863 – 1944)
Sur un nouveau procédé d’hystérectomie abdominale totale; la section médiane de l’utérus.
GMN 6105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7538
1897 KRÖNIG, Claus Ludwig Theodor Bernhard (1863 – 1918); MENGE, Karl (1864 – 1945)
Bakteriologie des weiblichen Genital-Kanales. 2 vols.
GMN 6106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7541
1897 KOUWER, Benjamin Jan (1861 – 1933)
Een geval van ovariaalzwangerschap (zwangerschap in een Graafschen follikel).
First description of ovarian pregnancy.
GMN 6206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7589
1897 FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)
Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14408
1897 JACOBS, Aletta Henriëtte (1854 – 1929)
De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.
Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …
GMN 14308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16633
1898 ALEXANDER, William (1844 – 1919)
Enucleation of uterine fibroids.
An outstanding account of myomectomy.
GMN 6107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7543
1898 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
Operative gynecology. 2 vols.
Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most famous …
GMN 6108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7546
1898 DÜHRSSEN, Alfred (1862 – 1933)
Über vaginalen Kaiserschnitt.
The vaginal Caesarean operation was introduced by Dührssen in April, 1895.
GMN 6246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7928
1898 GRIFFITH, Francis Llewellyn (1862 – 1934)
The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.
KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS
The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم
GMN 7011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9177
1899 SULLIVAN, William Charles (1869 – 1926)
A note on the influence of maternal inebriety on the offspring.
Fetal alcohol syndrome – first serious study.
GMN 2082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2557
1899 MEIGE, Henri (1866 – 1940)
Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.
“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).
GMN 4129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5743
1899 ORTHMANN, Ernst Gottlob (1858 – 1922)
Zur Casuistik einiger seltenerer Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.
“Brenner tumor” first described; see also No. 6118.
GMN 6109.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7548
1900 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
The removal of pelvic inflammatory masses by the abdomen after bisection of the uterus.
GMN 6109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7547
1900 CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953)
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a sign of ruptured …
GMN 6110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7550
1900 GILLIAM, David Tod (1844 – 1923)
Round-ligament ventrosuspension of the uterus: a new method.
Gilliam’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7551
1900 NOBLE, George Henry (1860 – 1932)
Aflap operation for atresia of the vagina.
Noble introduced a flap operation for atresia of the vagina.
GMN 6112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7552
1900 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Zur Frage der Radical operation beim Uteruskrebs.
Wertheim’s radical operation for cancer of the uterus.
GMN 6114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7557
1900 STROGANOV, Vasili Vasilievich (1857 – 1938)
On the treatment of eclampsia.
The first of Stroganoff s important papers on the pathogenesis and treatment of eclampsia.
GMN 6207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7596
1900 –1904 BREUS, Carl (1852 – 1914); KOLISKO, Alexander (1847 – 1918)
Die pathologischen Beckenformen.
Classic description and classification of pelvic deformities.
GMN 6265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7972
1901 EDEBOHLS, George Michael (1853 – 1908)
Panhysterokolpectomy; a new prolapsus operation.
GMN 6115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7558
1901 WEBSTER, John Clarence (1863 – 1950)
A satisfactory operation for certain cases of retroversion of the uterus.
“Baldy–Webster operation”. Webster’s method of treating retrodisplacement of the uterus was later modified by J. M. Baldy, Amer. J. Obstet. Dis. Wom., 1902, 45, 650-54, and N.Y. med. J., 1903, 78, 167-69.
GMN 6116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7562
1901 MCKAY, William John Stewart (1866 – 1948)
The history of ancient gynaecology.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8017
1901 –1902 SIEBOLD, Eduard Caspar Jacob von (1801 – 1861)
Versuch einer Geschichte der Geburtshilfe. 2te. Aufl. 2 vols.
First edition, 1839-45. Continuation by R. Dohm, for the period 1840-80, forming Bd. 3 (see No. 6289).
GMN 6288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8019
1901 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
L'Avortement
GMN 9904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12092
1902 –1904 BALLANTYNE, John William (1861 – 1923)
Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene. Volume 1, The foetus. Volume 2, The embryo.
Ballantyne was a pioneer advocate of antenatal care. Volume 2, The Embryo, is the most complete history of teratology in English, and among the best in any language. American edition, New York, 1905. Digital facsimile…
GMN 534.69 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7601
1902 GIGLI, Leonardo (1863 – 1908)
Sinfisiotomia classica e taglio lateralizzato del pube.
“Gigli’s operation”. Gigli substituted pubiotomy for symphysiotomy.
GMN 6209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7603
1903 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
Obstetrics.
The most famous American textbook of obstetrics.
GMN 6210.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7615
