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 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
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 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
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
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
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 –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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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
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