1853 LITZMANN, Carl Conrad Theodor (1815 – 1890)

Das schräg-ovale Becken.

Litzmann (see also No. 6263) described in this work the coxalgic, scoliotic and kyphoscoliotic forms of pelvis.

GMN 6260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7961

1854 DUNCAN, James Matthews (1826 – 1890)

On the displacements of the uterus.

“Duncan’s folds”, the peritoneal folds of the uterus. Republished in book form, Edinburgh, 1854. Duncan, a leading Edinburgh obstetrician, became lecturer on the subject at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

GMN 6181 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7508

1854 WRIGHT, Marmaduke Burr (1803 – 1879)

Difficult labors and their treatment.

Wright was responsible for the introduction of combined cephalic version.

GMN 6182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7510

1854 KILIAN, Hermann Friedrich (1800 – 1863)

Schilderungen neuer Beckenformen und ihres Verhaltens im Leben.

First description of pelvis spinosa.

GMN 6261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7963

1854 KILIAN, Hermann Friedrich (1800 – 1863)

De spondylolisthesi gravissimae pelvangustiae causa nuper detecta.

An important study of the spondylolisthetic pelvis, which Kilian called “pelvis obtecta”.

GMN 6262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7964

1855 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)

Puerperal fever, as a private pestilence.

Because his first paper (No. 6274) had been published in a short-lived journal with very small circulation, Holmes enlarged his famous essay on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, and in this reiteration mentioned …

GMN 6276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7992

1856 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)

Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.

Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…

GMN 13687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15969

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

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 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

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 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 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

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 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

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 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 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 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

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 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

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 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

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 NEUGEBAUER, Franz Ludwig [Franciszek Ludwik Neugebauer] (1856 – 1914)

Neuer Beitrag zur Aetiologie und Casuistik der Spondyl-olisthesis.

GMN 6264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7971

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

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 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