1927 SONDEREGGER, Albert
Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.
GMN 6298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8036
1927 SPENCER, Herbert Ritchie (1860 – 1941)
History of British midwifery from 1650-1800.
GMN 6299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8038
1928 ZONDEK, Bernhard (1891 – 1966); ASCHHEIM, Selmar (1878 – 1965)
Schwangerschaftsdiagnose aus dem Ham (durch Hormonnachweis).
The Aschheim-Zondek test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.
GMN 6222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7648
1929 DAS, Sir Kedarnath (1867 – 1936)
Obstetric forceps, its history and evolution.
GMN 6299.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8040
1929 FRANK, Robert Tilden (1875 – 1949)
The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.
The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9353
1930 MENEES, Thomas Orville (1890 – 1937); ET AL
Amniography; preliminary report.
Introduction of amniography. With J. D. Miller and L. E. Holly.
GMN 6223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7649
1931 FRIEDMAN, Maurice Harold (1903 – 1991); LAPHAM, Maxwell Edward (1899 – 1983)
A simple, rapid procedure for the laboratory diagnosis of early pregnancies.
Friedman test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.
GMN 6224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7651
1932 PHELPS, Winthrop Morgan (1894 – 1971)
Cerebral birth injuries: Their orthopaedic classification and subsequent treatment.
Phelps established the modern classification and approach to these injuries.
GMN 4400.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6024
1933 KAUFMANN, Carl
Die Behandlung der Amenorrhoë mit hohen Dosen der Ovarialhormone.
First use of estrogenic hormone for the treatment of amenorrhea in ovariectomized women, with production of the typical cyclical endometrial changes.
GMN 1199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1818
1933 –1939 REGAUD, Claudius (1870 – 1940)
Considérations sur la radiothérapie des cancers cervico-uterins, d’après l’experience et les résultats acquis à l’Institut du Radium de Paris.
The Paris method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus was devised by Regaud.
GMN 6131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7635
1933 SCHILLER, Walter (1887 – 1960)
Early diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix.
Schiller’s test for carcinoma of the cervix.
GMN 6132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7637
1933 DICK-READ, Grantly (1890 – 1959)
Natural childbirth.
In this work Dick-Read coined the term "natural childbirth." He advocated natural childbirth for many years; he demonstrated that prenatal education in methods of relaxation in many cases makes labor almost painless.
GMN 6225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7653
1933 CALDWELL, William Edgar (1880 – 1943); MOLOY, Howard Carman (1903 – 1953)
Anatomical variations in the female pelvis and their effect in labor, with a suggested classification.
The modern classification of the female pelvis is based on the work of Caldwell and Moloy.
GMN 6266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7974
1933 VLANA, Odorico (1877 – 1942); VOZZA, Francesco
L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.
GMN 6300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8042
1933 DELEE, Joseph Bolivar (1869 – 1942)
Sound motion pictures in obstetrics.
DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. In this paper he described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff member…
GMN 12485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14718
1934 MEIGS, Joe Vincent (1892 – 1963)
Tumors of the female pelvic organs.
“Meigs’s syndrome” – fibroma of the ovary with pleural effusion – is described on pp. 262-63.
GMN 6132.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7642
1934 BELLERBY, Charles William
A rapid test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.
The Xenopus toad test for the diagnosis of pregnancy; this preliminary note followed Hogben’s demonstration that Xenopus responds by ovulation to the gonadotrophic hormone (Trans. roy. Soc. S. Africa, 1930, Ser. A, 5,…
GMN 6226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7654
1934 KAPELLER-ADLER, Regina (1900 – 1991)
Über eine neue chemische Schwangerschaftsreaktion.
Kapeller-Adler test for diagnosis of pregnancy.
GMN 6227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7656
1934 SNOW, William (1898 – ); POWELL, Clilian Bethany (1894 – 1977)
Roentgen visualization of the placenta.
Direct radiography of the placenta. "Clilan (C.B.) Powell, longtime owner of the Amsterdam News, was born in 1894 to former Virginia slaves. Very little is known about his childhood. He received his medical degree in …
GMN 6229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7856
1934 JARCHO, Julius (1882 – 1963)
Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.
GMN 11001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13197
1935 STEIN, Irving Freiler (1887 – 1976); LEVENTHAL, Michael Leo (1901 – 1971)
Amenorrhea associated with bilateral polycystic ovaries.
Stein–Leventhal syndrome.
GMN 6132.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7643
1935 DUDLEY, Harold Ward (1887 – 1935); MOIR, John Chassar (1900 – 1977)
The substance responsible for the traditional clinical effect of ergot.
Isolation and introduction of ergometrine.
GMN 6230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7859
1935 ANSELM, Eugen
Unsere Erfahrungen mit Prontosil bei Puerperalfieber.
First report of the use of an antimicrobial agent in the treatment of obstetric infections.
GMN 6280.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8003
1935 THOMS, Herbert (1885 – 1972)
Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 6301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8044
1936 COLEBROOK, Leonard (1883 – 1967); KENNY, Méave
Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.
Chemotherapeutic treatment of puerperal sepsis.
GMN 6281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8005
1936 EGERT, Ferdinand Paul
Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.
GMN 11896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14101
1937 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde. 1 Teil. Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt.
Forms Bd. 12, Teil 1, of Handbuch der Gynäkologie, hrsg. J. Veit u. Stoeckel. See also No. 6311.4
GMN 6303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8046
1938 MØLLER-CHRISTENSEN, Vilhelm (1903 – 1988)
The history of the forceps: An investigation on the occurrence, evolution, and use of the forceps from prehistoric times to the present (with a summary in Danish). Translated by William Ernest Calvert.
Not limited to the obstetric forceps.
GMN 2682.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3602
1938 PENROSE, Lionel Sharples (1898 – 1972)
A clinical and genetic study of 1,280 cases of mental defect.
In this exhaustive study Penrose showed (p. 36) the significance of maternal age in the etiology of Down syndrome.
GMN 4962.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6325
1938 MCINDOE, Sir Archibald Hector (1900 – 1960); BANISTER, John Bright (1880 – 1938)
An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.
Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.
GMN 6133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7657
1939 WHITE, Priscilla (1900 – 1989); ET AL
Prediction and prevention of late pregnancy accidents in diabetes.
First report of hormone treatment. Written with R.S. Titus, E.P. Joslin, and H. Hunt.
GMN 6231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7860
1939 CLAYE, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 – 1977)
The evolution of obstetric analgesia.
GMN 6304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8047
1939 HOOKER, Davenport (1887 – 1965)
A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.
The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…
GMN 14053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16363
1941 PAPANICOLAOU, George Nicholas (1883 – 1962); TRAUT, Herbert Frederick (1894 – 1963)
The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.
The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…
GMN 6135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7663
1941 STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978); LUSHBAUGH, Clarence Chancelum (1916 – 2000)
Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics.
Amniotic fluid embolism described.
GMN 6232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7862
1942 HINGSON, Robert Andrew (1913 – 1996); EDWARDS, Waldo Berry (1905 – 1981)
Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.
GMN 6232.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7863
1943 SWAN, Charles Spencer (1912 – 1963)
Congenital defects in infants following infectious diseases during pregnancy.
Figures demonstrating that rubella in the first or second month of pregnancy always results in an abnormal infant. With A. L. Tostevin, B. Moore, H. Mayo, and G. H. B. Black.
GMN 5509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6503
1943 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.
Second edition, 1950.
GMN 6305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8049
1943 PAPANICOLAOU, George Nicholas (1883 – 1962); TRAUT, Herbert Frederick (1894 – 1963)
Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.
"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …
GMN 13597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15876
1944 LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )
History of gynecology.
GMN 6306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8050
1944 YOUNG, John Harley
Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.
GMN 6307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8051
1945 O’SULLIVAN, James Vincent (1899 – 1976)
Acute inversion of the uterus.
O’Sullivan’s method of replacement by intravaginal hydraulic pressure.
GMN 6233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7865
1945 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.
GMN 6309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8052
1946 SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865); MURPHY, Frank P.
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), an annotated bibliography
GMN 12822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15068
1947 GALLI MAININI, Carlos (1914 – 1961)
Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.
Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.
GMN 6234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7868
1947 RADCLIFFE, Walter
The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.
Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
GMN 6311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8054
1949 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
GMN 6310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8053
1950 GRÄFENBERG, Ernst (1881 – 1957)
The role of urethra in female orgasm.
"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful orgasms a…
GMN 13609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15889
1951 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); DRABKIN, Israel Edward (1905 – 1965); DRABKIN, Miriam
Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.
Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…
GMN 12203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14413
1952 RAPP, Gustav William (1917 – ); RICHARDSON, Garwood Colvin (1897 – )
A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.
GMN 6235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7870
