1887 BOZEMAN, Nathan (1825 – 1905)
The gradual preparatory treatment of the complications of urinary and faecal fistulae in women.
Pyelitis complicating vesical and fecal fistulae in women was successfully treated by Bozeman.
GMN 6085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7488
1887 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Hysterorrhaphy.
GMN 6086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7489
1887 –1888 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.
Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.
GMN 6087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7491
1888 CARRIER, Henriette
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15742
1889 SÄNGER, Max (1853 – 1903)
Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.
GMN 6088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7493
1890 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
Ueber Blasenscheidenfisteloperationen und über Beckenhochlagerung bei Operationen in der Bauchhöhle.
Includes an account of his attempt, 1886, to cure hydronephrosis by a plastic operation – the first recorded surgical intervention for the relief of this condition. Includes description of the “Trendelenburg position”…
GMN 4222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6313
1890 PFANNENSTIEL, Hermann Johann (1862 – 1909)
Ueber die Pseudomucine der cystischen Ovariengeschwülste.
GMN 6089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7495
1890 PRICE, Joseph (1853 – 1911)
Pus in the pelvis and how to deal with it.
GMN 6090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7496
1891 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
Contributions to the histogenesis of the papillary cystoma of the ovary.
GMN 6092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7504
1892 BAER, Benjamin Franklin (1846 – 1920)
Supravaginal hysterectomy without ligature of the cervix, in operation for uterine fibroids; a new method.
Baer’s operation.
GMN 6093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7506
1892 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
On the occurrence of pleural effusion in association with disease of the abdomen.
Lawson Tait was apparently the first to describe what is now known as Meigs’s syndrome (ovarian fibroma combined with pleural effusion).
GMN 6093.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7509
1892 HENROTIN, Fernand (1847 – 1906)
Vaginal hysterectomy in bilateral peri-uterine suppuration.
Henrotin’s method of removing the uterus.
GMN 6095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7517
1892 BREUS, Carl (1852 – 1914)
Das tuberöse subchoriale Hämatom der Decidua. Eine typische Form der Molenschwangerschaft.
Tuberous (“Breus”) mole first described.
GMN 6202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7576
1892 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Gynaecological technique: A brief summary of the principles involved, as well as the technique involved in the gynæcological operations performed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The significance of the operation and its technical surroundings to gynaecological practice.
Includes 14 photographic illustrations showing Kelly's gynecological operating room, antiseptic and aseptic apparatus, and his assistants preparing for surgery. The text includes descriptions of the apparatus and tech…
GMN 11634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13834
1893 SÄNGER, Max (1853 – 1903)
Ueber Sarcoma uteri deciduo-cellulare und andere deciduale Geschwülste.
A detailed classification of “deciduomata”, chorionic neoplasms, and a review of the literature.
GMN 6094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7512
1895 HENROTIN, Fernand (1847 – 1906)
Conservative surgical treatment of para- and peri-uterine septic diseases.
GMN 6096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7518
1895 KAHLDEN, Clemens von (1859 – 1903)
Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form des Ovarial carcinoms.
Granulosa cell tumor first described.
GMN 6097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7521
1895 MARCHAND, Felix Jacob (1846 – 1928)
Über die sogenannten “decidualen” Geschwülste im Anschluss an normale Geburt, Abort, Blasenmole und Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
Marchand’s theory of the histogenesis of choriocarcinoma (chorionepithelioma). He considered that such tumors derived from trophoblast and not from decidua.
GMN 6097.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7522
1895 OLSHAUSEN, Robert Michaelis von (1835 – 1915)
Über Exstirpation der Vagina.
The operation of excision of the vagina was introduced by Olshausen.
GMN 6098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7524
1895 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.
GMN 6099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7526
1895 WILLIAMS, John Whitridge (1866 – 1931)
Deciduoma malignum.
First case of choriocarcinoma reported in North America.
GMN 6100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7529
1896 KRUKENBERG, Friedrich Ernst (1870 – 1946)
Ueber das Fibrosarcoma ovarii mucocellulare (carcinomatodes).
Original description of “Krukenberg’s tumor”.
GMN 6101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7531
1896 MACKENRODT, Alwin Karl (1859 – 1925)
Ueber den künstlichen Ersatz der Scheide.
Mackenrodt’s operation for the plastic reconstruction of the vagina.
GMN 6102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7533
1896 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Über Blasen-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim demonstrated the gonococcus in acute cystitis.
GMN 6103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7536
1897 FAURE, Jean Louis (1863 – 1944)
Sur un nouveau procédé d’hystérectomie abdominale totale; la section médiane de l’utérus.
GMN 6105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7538
1897 KRÖNIG, Claus Ludwig Theodor Bernhard (1863 – 1918); MENGE, Karl (1864 – 1945)
Bakteriologie des weiblichen Genital-Kanales. 2 vols.
GMN 6106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7541
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
1897 JACOBS, Aletta Henriëtte (1854 – 1929)
De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.
Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …
GMN 14308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16633
1898 ALEXANDER, William (1844 – 1919)
Enucleation of uterine fibroids.
An outstanding account of myomectomy.
GMN 6107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7543
1898 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
Operative gynecology. 2 vols.
Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most famous …
GMN 6108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7546
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 MEIGE, Henri (1866 – 1940)
Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.
“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).
GMN 4129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5743
1899 ORTHMANN, Ernst Gottlob (1858 – 1922)
Zur Casuistik einiger seltenerer Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.
“Brenner tumor” first described; see also No. 6118.
GMN 6109.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7548
1900 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
The removal of pelvic inflammatory masses by the abdomen after bisection of the uterus.
GMN 6109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7547
1900 CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953)
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a sign of ruptured …
GMN 6110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7550
1900 GILLIAM, David Tod (1844 – 1923)
Round-ligament ventrosuspension of the uterus: a new method.
Gilliam’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7551
1900 NOBLE, George Henry (1860 – 1932)
Aflap operation for atresia of the vagina.
Noble introduced a flap operation for atresia of the vagina.
GMN 6112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7552
1900 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Zur Frage der Radical operation beim Uteruskrebs.
Wertheim’s radical operation for cancer of the uterus.
GMN 6114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7557
1901 EDEBOHLS, George Michael (1853 – 1908)
Panhysterokolpectomy; a new prolapsus operation.
GMN 6115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7558
1901 WEBSTER, John Clarence (1863 – 1950)
A satisfactory operation for certain cases of retroversion of the uterus.
“Baldy–Webster operation”. Webster’s method of treating retrodisplacement of the uterus was later modified by J. M. Baldy, Amer. J. Obstet. Dis. Wom., 1902, 45, 650-54, and N.Y. med. J., 1903, 78, 167-69.
GMN 6116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7562
1901 MCKAY, William John Stewart (1866 – 1948)
The history of ancient gynaecology.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8017
1904 BALDWIN, James Fairchild (1850 – 1936)
The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.
Baldwin’s operation.
GMN 6117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7566
1907 BRENNER, Fritz (1877 – 1969)
Das Oophoroma folliculare.
“Brenner tumor”, earlier described by Orthmann (No. 6109). See the historical note in Cancer, 1956, 9, 217.
GMN 6118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7569
1908 DONALD, Archibald (1860 – 1937)
Operation in cases of complete prolapsed.
Donald’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7573
1908 SCHAUTA, Friedrich (1849 – 1919)
Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.
Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.
GMN 6120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7577
1908 WEINDLER, Fritz
Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.
From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8026
1910 BLAIR-BELL, William (1871 – 1936)
The principles of gynaecology.
Blair Bell was an outstanding figure in British gynecology and one of the founders of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
GMN 6121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7581
1914 CARY, William Hollenback (1883 – )
Note on determination of patency of Fallopian tubes by the use of collargol and x-ray shadow.
Cary was the first to perform salpingography.
GMN 6122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7587
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); BURNHAM, Curtis F.
Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women. With 628 illustrations, for the most part by Max Brödel
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14111
1915 RUBIN, Isador Clinton (1883 – 1958)
X-ray diagnosis in gynecology with the aid of intra-uterine collargol injection.
Independently of Cary (No. 6122) Rubin performed salpingography. Preliminary communication in Zbl Gynäk., 1914, 38, 658-60.
GMN 6123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7590
