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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
1952 RAPP, Gustav William (1917 – ); RICHARDSON, Garwood Colvin (1897 – )
A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.
GMN 6235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7870
1953 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); CURRIER, Thomas Franklin (1873 – 1946); TILTON, Eleanor Marguerite (1913 – 1991)
A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes
GMN 11203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13400
1954 KERR, John Martin Munro (1868 – 1960); ET AL
Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.
Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.
GMN 6311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8055
1955 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.
A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…
GMN 8391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10568
1955 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
GMN 9103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11282
1956 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002); EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); GUTTMACHER, Allan Frank (1898 – 1974); EASTMAN, Nicholson Joseph (1895 – 1973)
Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.
GMN 9367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11550
1958 DONALD, Ian (1910 – 1987)
Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed ultrasound.
Donald, J. MacVicar and T. G. Brown used an ultrasound scanner to investigate the pregnant abdomen (see also No. 6235.1).
GMN 2682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3582
1958 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.
79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.
GMN 6311.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8056
1961 DONALD, Ian (1910 – 1987); BROWN, T. G.
Demonstration of tissue interfaces within the body by ultrasonic echo sounding.
Biparietal fetal cephalometry by ultrasound.
GMN 6235.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7872
1963 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.
A continuation of No. 6303.
GMN 6311.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8057
1964 CUTTER, Irving Samuel (1875 – 1945); VIETS, Henry Rouse (1890 – 1969)
A short history of midwifery.
Supplemented reprint of Cutter's "Historical sketch of the development of midwifery and gynecology," Obstetrics and Gynecology, edited by Arthur H. Curtis, I, 4-194 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1933).
GMN 9535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11721
1965 THOMPSON, Horace E. (1921 – 2008); HOLMES, Joseph H. (1902 – 1982); GOTTESFELD, Kenneth R.; TAYLOR, E. S.
Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States.
GMN 11463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13662
1967 JACOBSON, Cecil Bryan (1936 – ); BARTER, Robert Henry (1913 – 1999)
Intrauterine diagnosis and management of genetic defects.
Amniocentesis used to diagnose genetic disorders in utero. First detailed report. See also Fuchs, F., Genetic information from amniotic fluid contents. Lancet, 1960, 2, 180. "During the course of the criminal investig…
GMN 6235.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7874
1967 RADCLIFFE, Walter
Milestones in midwifery.
Reprinted with No. 6311, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
GMN 6311.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8058
