1854 SIMON, Gustav (1824 – 1876)

Ueber die Heilung der Blasen-Scheidenfisteln.

Simon is perhaps best remembered as being the first in Europe to excise the kidney; he also wrote a fine monograph on vesico-vaginal fistula.

GMN 6041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7352

1855 KIMBALL, Gilman (1804 – 1892)

Successful case of extirpation of the uterus.

First successful abdominal hysteroscopic myomectomy (for fibromyoma), 1 September 1853.

GMN 6042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7356

1857 FERGUSSON, Sir William (1808 – 1877)

System of practical surgery. 4th ed.

Fergusson’s vaginal speculum is described on p. 724.

GMN 6043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7360

1858 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)

Silver sutures in surgery.

Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037.

GMN 5605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7117

1858 NOEGGERATH, Emil Oscar Jacob Bruno (1827 – 1895)

On epicystotomy.

Noeggerath, who devised the operation of epicystotomy, spent many years in America, where he became a leading gynecologist and obstetrician.

GMN 6044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7367

1858 WAGNER, Ernst Leberecht (1829 – 1888)

Der Gebärmutterkrebs.

In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.

GMN 6045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7370

1859 AYRES, Daniel (1822 – 1892)

Congenital exstrophy of the urinary bladder, complicated with prolapsus uteri following pregnancy; successfully treated by a new plastic operation.

First successful plastic operation for exstrophy of the female bladder.

GMN 6046 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7373

1860 HODGE, Hugh Lenox (1796 – 1873)

On diseases peculiar to women, including displacements of the uterus.

Chapter 5 includes a lengthy description of the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6185.

GMN 6043.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7364

1860 ATLEE, Washington Lemuel (1808 – 1878)

Case of successful operation for vesico-vaginal fistula.

Atlee’s operation for vesicovaginal fistula.

GMN 6047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7377

1860 –1862 BERNUTZ, Gustave Louis Richard (1819 – 1887); GOUPIL, Jean Ernest (1829 – 1864)

Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols.

One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1867.

GMN 6048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7381

1861 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)

Amputation of the cervix uteri.

Sims’s method for amputating the cervix.

GMN 6049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7385

1862 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)

On vaginismus.

GMN 6050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7386

1863 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)

De l’ovariotomie.

The introduction of ovariotomy into France was in part due to Koeberlé. He made great advances in gynecological operative technique.

GMN 6051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7389

1863 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

GMN 6052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7393

1864 CLAY, Charles (1801 – 1893)

Observations on ovariotomy, statistical and practical. Also, a successful case of entire removal of the uterus and its appendages.

For many years Clay was the most eminent ovariotomist in Great Britain. In all, he performed 395 ovariotomies, with a mortality of 25 percent.

GMN 6054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7401

1865 KOEBERLÉ, Eugène (1828 – 1915)

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

GMN 6053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7396

1865 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)

On the treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility, resulting from anteflexion of the uterus.

Emmet, a disciple of Sims, was an outstanding gynecological surgeon.

GMN 6055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7404

1865 WELLS, Sir Thomas Spencer (1818 – 1897)

Diseases of the ovaries.

Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858. The title page to this work states that a second volume would be published. By the time Wells issued the intended…

GMN 6056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7407

1866 SIMS, James Marion (1813 – 1883)

Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.

A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…

GMN 6057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7410

1868 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)

Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.

A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.

GMN 6058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7414

1868 THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903)

A practical treatise on diseases of women.

The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.

GMN 6060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7421

1869 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)

Surgery of the cervix in connection with the treatment of certain uterine diseases.

Surgical repair of lacerations of the cervix.

GMN 6059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7418

1870 THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903)

Vaginal ovariotomy.

First vaginal ovariotomy.

GMN 6061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7424

1872 BATTEY, Robert (1828 – 1895)

Normal ovariotomy.

Battey’s ovariotomy operation for the treatment of non-ovarian conditions. This operation later acquired a greater significance in connection with more modern work on endocrinology. Preliminary communication in J. gyn…

GMN 6062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7426

1872 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)

Chronic cystitis in the female, and mode of treatment.

Vaginal cystotomy for chronic cystitis.

GMN 6063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7427

1872 NOEGGERATH, Emil Oscar Jacob Bruno (1827 – 1895)

Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.

Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.

GMN 6064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7430

1872 PRIESTLEY, Sir William Overend (1829 – 1901)

Cases of intermenstrual or intermediate dysmenorrhoea.

First report of cases of Mittelschmerz.

GMN 6065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7434

1876 MARTIN, August Eduard (1847 – 1933)

Zur Enucleation der intraparietalen Myome des Corpus uteri.

GMN 6066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7439

1877 CHIARI, Hans (1851 – 1916)

Uber drei Fälle von primärem Carcinom im Fundus und Corpus des Uterus.

Choriocarcinoma first reported.

GMN 6066.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7442

1877 HEGAR, Ernest Ludwig Alfred (1830 – 1914)

Ueber die Exstirpation normaler und nicht zu umfänglichen Tumoren degenerirter Eierstöcke.

Hegar developed Battey’s operation (No. 6062) and employed it for the treatment of various ovarian conditions.

GMN 6067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7445

1877 LE FORT, Léon Clément (1829 – 1893)

Noveau procédé pour la guérison du prolapsus utérin.

Le Fort’s operation for prolapse.

GMN 6068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7447

1877 RUGE, Carl Arnold (1846 – 1926); VEIT, Johann (1852 – 1917)

Anatomische Bedeutung der Erosionen am Scheidentheil.

GMN 6069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7449

1877 JACOBI, Mary Corinna Putnam (1842 – 1906)

The question of rest for women during menstruation.The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876.

"Jacobi's paper was a response to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's earlier publication, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1875), a book claiming that any physical or mental exertion during menstruation could le…

GMN 11912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14117

1878 FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

GMN 6070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7451

1879 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)

Removal of normal ovaries.

Lawson Tait reported that he had performed Battey’s operation on 1 August 1872, 16 days before Battey. See No. 6062.

GMN 6071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7455

1879 CZERNY, Vincenz (1842 – 1916)

Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses.

First total hysterectomy by the vaginal route.

GMN 6072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7459

1880 STEVENSON, Sarah Ann Hackett (1841 – 1909)

The physiology of woman, embracing girlhood, maternity, and mature age, with essays on the "Coeducation of the sexes in medicine," "The physiological basis of education," "Temperance from a physician's point of view, and "A plea for moderation."

Stevenson was the first woman member of the American Medical Association (AMA), the first woman appointed on the Illinois State Board of Health, and the first woman to be on staff at the Cook County Hospital in Chicag…

GMN 13169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15429

1881 CZERNY, Vincenz (1842 – 1916)

Ueber die Enukleation subperitonealer Fibrome der Gebärmutter durch das Scheidengewölbe; vaginale Myoniotomie.

The operation of enucleation of subperitoneal uterine fibroids by the vaginal route was introduced by Czerny. In the second paper the words “Fibromyome” and “Myomotomie” replace “Fibrome” and “Myoniotomie” in the title.

GMN 6073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7461

1881 SCHRÖDER, Karl Ludwig Ernst (1838 – 1887)

Ueber die theilweise und vollständige Ausschneidung der carcinomatösen Gebärmutter.

GMN 6074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7465

1881 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)

A case of removal of the uterine appendages.

Oöphorectomy, February 1881.

GMN 6075 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7467

1882 ADAMS, James Alexander (1857 – 1930)

A new operation for uterine displacements.

Adams devised an operation for retroversion of the uterus, similar to that performed by Alexander (No. 6077).

GMN 6076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7469

1882 ALEXANDER, William (1844 – 1919)

A new method of treating inveterate and troublesome displacements of the uterus.

Alexander’s suspension operation for retroversion of the uterus, first performed by him in 1881.

GMN 6077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7471

1882 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)

Sorani gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina. Nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum codicem Parisiensem nunc recognitis a Valentino Rose.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 12200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14410

1884 EMMET, Thomas Addis (1828 – 1919)

A study of the etiology of perineal laceration, with a new method for its proper repair.

First description of Emmet’s technique for perineorrhaphy.

GMN 6078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7472

1884 APOSTOLI, Georges (1847 – 1900)

Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.

Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.

GMN 6079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7477

1884 SCHRÖDER, Karl Ludwig Ernst (1838 – 1887)

Ueber die Enucleation interstitieller Myome.

GMN 6080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7479

1884 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)

General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.

Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.

GMN 6081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7481

1885 BREISKY, August (1832 – 1889)

Ueber Kraurosis vulvae, eine wenig beachtete Form von Hautatrophie am pudendum muliebre.

Although not the first to describe kraurosis vulvae, Breisky left an important account, and the condition became known as “Breisky’s disease”.

GMN 6082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7483

1886 OLSHAUSEN, Robert Michaelis von (1835 – 1915)

Ueber ventrale Operation bei Prolapsus und Retroversio uteri.

First account of Olshausen’s operation for retroversion of the uterus.

GMN 6083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7485

1886 PÉAN, Jules-Émile (1830 – 1898)

Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.

Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.

GMN 6084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7487