1903 –1904 DOHRN, Rudolf (1836 – 1915)
Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit. 2 pts.
A supplement to No. 6288.
GMN 6289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8021
1903 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860.
First published in Dohrn's Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit, zugleich als dritter Band des Versuchs einer Geschichte der Geburtshülfe, von Eduard von Siebold, Erste Abtheilung (Tübingen, 1903) 193-264. Digital …
GMN 10633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12826
1903 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les seins dans l'histoire.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13315
1904 BALDWIN, James Fairchild (1850 – 1936)
The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.
Baldwin’s operation.
GMN 6117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7566
1904 MÜLLERHEIM, Robert Nathan (1862 – )
Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.
GMN 6290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8022
1904 DELEE, Joseph Bolivar (1869 – 1942)
Obstetrics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11716
1905 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865); GYÖRY, Tibor (1869 – 1938)
Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.
An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological papers an…
GMN 82.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1381
1905 HOFBAUER, J. Isfred Isidore (1871 – 1961)
Grundzüge einer Biologie der menschlichen Plazenta. Mit besonderer Berücksichtig der Fragen der fötalen Ernährung.
Discovery of Hofbauer cells, oval eosinophilic histiocytes with granules and vacuoles found in the placenta, which are of mesenchymal origin, in mesoderm of the chorionic villus, particularly numerous in early pregnan…
GMN 14095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16406
1906 CREMER, Max (1865 – 1935)
Über die direkte Ableitung der Aktionsströme des menschlichen Herzens vom Oesophagus und über das Elektrokardiogramm des Fötus.
Fetal electrocardiogram recorded. Cremer was also the first to record an electrocardiogram with an electrode in the esophagus.
GMN 843.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/624
1906 SELLHEIM, Hugo (1871 – 1936)
Die Mechanik der Geburt.
GMN 6213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7624
1906 FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)
Geschichte der Geburtshüfe.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8025
1907 BRENNER, Fritz (1877 – 1969)
Das Oophoroma folliculare.
“Brenner tumor”, earlier described by Orthmann (No. 6109). See the historical note in Cancer, 1956, 9, 217.
GMN 6118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7569
1907 FRANK, Fritz (1856 – 1923)
Die suprasymphysäre Entbindung und ihr Verhältniss zu den anderen Operationen bei engen Becken.
Suprasymphyseal transperitoneal Caesarean section.
GMN 6247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7930
1908 DONALD, Archibald (1860 – 1937)
Operation in cases of complete prolapsed.
Donald’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7573
1908 SCHAUTA, Friedrich (1849 – 1919)
Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.
Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.
GMN 6120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7577
1908 MOMBURG, Friedrich August (Fritz) (1870 – 1939)
Die künstliche Blutleere der unteren Körperhälfte.
Abdominal ligature in prevention of post-partum haemorrhage.
GMN 6214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7627
1908 SELLHEIM, Hugo (1871 – 1936)
Die extraperitoneale Uterusschnitt.
Sellheim’s operation. For his three subsequent modifications, see the same journal, 319-31, 641-51, and Mschr. Geburtsh. Gynäk., 1911, 34, 34-45.
GMN 6248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7932
1908 WEINDLER, Fritz
Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.
From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8026
1909 BLAIR-BELL, William (1871 – 1936)
The pituitary body and the therapeutic value of the infundibular extract in shock, uterine atony, and intestinal paresis.
GMN 6215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7630
1909 LATZKO, Wilhelm (1863 – 1945)
Der extraperitoneale Kaiserschnitt. Seine Geschichte, seine Technik und seine Indikationen.
Latzko’s extraperitoneal lower-segment Caesarean operation. Preliminary report in the same journal, 1908, 21, 737.
GMN 6249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7935
1910 BLAIR-BELL, William (1871 – 1936)
The principles of gynaecology.
Blair Bell was an outstanding figure in British gynecology and one of the founders of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
GMN 6121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7581
1911 EDLING, Lars (1878 – 1962)
Ueber die Anwendung des Roentgenverfahrens bei der Diagnose der Schwangerschaft.
First use of x rays for the diagnosis of pregnancy.
GMN 6216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7632
1912 DÖDERLEIN, Albert Siegmund Gustav (1860 – 1941); KRÖNIG, Bernard (1863 – 1917)
Operative Gynäkologie. 3rd ed.
Includes (p. 879) first description of Krönig’s operation of transperitoneal lower-segment Caesarean section.
GMN 6250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7940
1913 DELEE, Joseph Bolivar (1869 – 1942)
The principles and practice of obstetrics.
Digital facsimile of the 1914 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14721
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.
GMN 12744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14990
1914 CARY, William Hollenback (1883 – )
Note on determination of patency of Fallopian tubes by the use of collargol and x-ray shadow.
Cary was the first to perform salpingography.
GMN 6122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7587
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); BURNHAM, Curtis F.
Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women. With 628 illustrations, for the most part by Max Brödel
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14111
1915 RUBIN, Isador Clinton (1883 – 1958)
X-ray diagnosis in gynecology with the aid of intra-uterine collargol injection.
Independently of Cary (No. 6122) Rubin performed salpingography. Preliminary communication in Zbl Gynäk., 1914, 38, 658-60.
GMN 6123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7590
1915 FOTHERGILL, William Edward (1865 – 1926)
Anterior colporrhaphy and its combination with amputation of the cervix as a single operation.
Fothergill’s modification of Donald’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6124 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7593
1916 CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus
Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary illustrations by Max…
GMN 6124.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7598
1916 KIELLAND, Christian Caspar Gabriel (1871 – 1941)
Ueber die Anlegung der Zange am nicht rotierten Kopf mit Beschreibung eines neuen Zangenmodelles und einer neuen Anlegungsmethode.
Kielland forceps. English translation and historical background in E.P. Jones, Kielland’s forceps, London, 1952.
GMN 6219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7638
1917 FORSSELL, Carl Gustaf (1876 – 1950)
Översikt över resultaten av kräftbehandling vid Radiumhemmet i Stockholm 1910-1915.
The Stockholm method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus, as carried out at the Radiumhemmet, Stockholm, follows the technique devised by Forssell.
GMN 6125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7602
1917 LA TORRE, Felice (1846 – 1923)
L’utero attraverso i secoli da Erofilo al giorni nostri; storia, iconografia, struttura, fisiologia.
Contains an important collection of illustrations.
GMN 6295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8028
1918 SCHMIDT, Harry Burke (1882 – )
A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.
Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion.
GMN 3135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3941
1919 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
Observations on the severe anaemias of pregnancy and the post-partum state.
Osler described his four-part classification of anemias of pregnancy: anemia from post-partum hemorrhage, severe anemia of pregnancy, post-partum anemia, and the acute anemia of post-partum sepsis. This was Osler's la…
GMN 3136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3942
1919 SCHROEDER, Robert (1884 – 1959)
Die pathogenese der Meno- und besonders der Metrorrhagien.
First description of metropathia hemorrhagica.
GMN 6126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7604
1919 CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953)
Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.
“Cullen’s sign”.
GMN 6220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7644
1919 DELEE, Joseph Bolivar (1869 – 1942)
The newer methods of cesarean section. Report of 40 cases.
DeLee’s low cervical operation (laparotrachelotomy).
GMN 6251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7943
1919 HALBAN, Josef von (1870 – 1937); KÖHLER, Robert (1884 – 1955)
Die pathologische Anatomie des Puerperalprozesses.
GMN 6280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8001
1920 RUBIN, Isador Clinton (1883 – 1958)
Nonoperative determination of patency of Fallopian tubes in sterility. Intra-uterine inflation with oxygen, and production of an artificial pneumoperitoneum.
Tubal insufflation method for the diagnosis and treatment of sterility due to occlusion of the Fallopian tubes.
GMN 6127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7606
1920 DELEE, Joseph Bolivar (1869 – 1942)
The prophylactic forceps operation.
DeLee's advocacy of prophylactic forceps delivery made forceps deliveries more common. It remains probably his most controversial contribution to obstetrics. "At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920…
GMN 12489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14722
1921 SAMPSON, John Albertson (1873 – 1946)
Perforating hemorrhagic (chocolate) cysts of the ovary.
The true nature of ovarian endometriomata was elucidated by Sampson.
GMN 6128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7609
1921 POTTER, Irving White (1868 – 1956)
Version.
Potter’s operation of podalic version.
GMN 6221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7646
1922 SPALDING, Alfred Baker (1874 – 1942)
A pathognomonic sign of intra-uterine death.
“Spalding’s sign” of fetal death.
GMN 6221.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7647
1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.
The earliest known description of puerperal fever.
GMN 6267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7975
1924 –1929 HALBAN, Josef von (1870 – 1937); SEITZ, Ludwig (1872 – 1961)
Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes. Hrsg. von 8 vols.
Second edition, 10 vols. & index, 1941-55.
GMN 6129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7617
1924 PORTES, Louis (1891 – 1950)
Césarienne suivie d’extériorisation temporaire de l’utérus et de réintégration secondaire dans le bassin.
Portes operation – the classic Caesarean section followed by temporary exteriorization of the uterus. More fully described in Gynéc. et Obstét., 1924, 10, 225-50.
GMN 6252 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7944
1924 FISCHER, Isidor (1868 – 1943)
Geschichte der Gynäkologie. In: J. von Halban and L. Seitz: Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.1, 1-202.
GMN 6296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8032
1925 FEHLER, Hermann Johann Karl (1847 – 1925)
Entwicklund der Gerurtshilfe und Gynäkologie im 19. Jahrhundert.
GMN 6297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8033
1927 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ILBERG, Johannes (1860 – 1930)
Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.
Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.
GMN 6009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7182
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