1915 FOTHERGILL, William Edward (1865 – 1926)
Anterior colporrhaphy and its combination with amputation of the cervix as a single operation.
Fothergill’s modification of Donald’s operation for prolapse.
GMN 6124 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7593
1916 CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus
Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary illustrations by Max…
GMN 6124.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7598
1917 FORSSELL, Carl Gustaf (1876 – 1950)
Översikt över resultaten av kräftbehandling vid Radiumhemmet i Stockholm 1910-1915.
The Stockholm method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus, as carried out at the Radiumhemmet, Stockholm, follows the technique devised by Forssell.
GMN 6125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7602
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
1919 SCHROEDER, Robert (1884 – 1959)
Die pathogenese der Meno- und besonders der Metrorrhagien.
First description of metropathia hemorrhagica.
GMN 6126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7604
1920 RUBIN, Isador Clinton (1883 – 1958)
Nonoperative determination of patency of Fallopian tubes in sterility. Intra-uterine inflation with oxygen, and production of an artificial pneumoperitoneum.
Tubal insufflation method for the diagnosis and treatment of sterility due to occlusion of the Fallopian tubes.
GMN 6127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7606
1921 SAMPSON, John Albertson (1873 – 1946)
Perforating hemorrhagic (chocolate) cysts of the ovary.
The true nature of ovarian endometriomata was elucidated by Sampson.
GMN 6128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7609
1924 –1929 HALBAN, Josef von (1870 – 1937); SEITZ, Ludwig (1872 – 1961)
Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes. Hrsg. von 8 vols.
Second edition, 10 vols. & index, 1941-55.
GMN 6129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7617
1924 FISCHER, Isidor (1868 – 1943)
Geschichte der Gynäkologie. In: J. von Halban and L. Seitz: Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.1, 1-202.
GMN 6296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8032
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
1929 FRANK, Robert Tilden (1875 – 1949)
The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.
The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9353
1933 KAUFMANN, Carl
Die Behandlung der Amenorrhoë mit hohen Dosen der Ovarialhormone.
First use of estrogenic hormone for the treatment of amenorrhea in ovariectomized women, with production of the typical cyclical endometrial changes.
GMN 1199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1818
1933 –1939 REGAUD, Claudius (1870 – 1940)
Considérations sur la radiothérapie des cancers cervico-uterins, d’après l’experience et les résultats acquis à l’Institut du Radium de Paris.
The Paris method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus was devised by Regaud.
GMN 6131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7635
1933 SCHILLER, Walter (1887 – 1960)
Early diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix.
Schiller’s test for carcinoma of the cervix.
GMN 6132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7637
1934 MEIGS, Joe Vincent (1892 – 1963)
Tumors of the female pelvic organs.
“Meigs’s syndrome” – fibroma of the ovary with pleural effusion – is described on pp. 262-63.
GMN 6132.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7642
1935 STEIN, Irving Freiler (1887 – 1976); LEVENTHAL, Michael Leo (1901 – 1971)
Amenorrhea associated with bilateral polycystic ovaries.
Stein–Leventhal syndrome.
GMN 6132.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7643
1935 THOMS, Herbert (1885 – 1972)
Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 6301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8044
1936 EGERT, Ferdinand Paul
Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.
GMN 11896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14101
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 MCINDOE, Sir Archibald Hector (1900 – 1960); BANISTER, John Bright (1880 – 1938)
An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.
Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.
GMN 6133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7657
1941 PAPANICOLAOU, George Nicholas (1883 – 1962); TRAUT, Herbert Frederick (1894 – 1963)
The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.
The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…
GMN 6135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7663
1943 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.
Second edition, 1950.
GMN 6305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8049
1943 PAPANICOLAOU, George Nicholas (1883 – 1962); TRAUT, Herbert Frederick (1894 – 1963)
Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.
"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …
GMN 13597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15876
1944 LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )
History of gynecology.
GMN 6306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8050
1945 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.
GMN 6309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8052
1949 RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
GMN 6310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8053
1950 GRÄFENBERG, Ernst (1881 – 1957)
The role of urethra in female orgasm.
"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful orgasms a…
GMN 13609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15889
1951 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); DRABKIN, Israel Edward (1905 – 1965); DRABKIN, Miriam
Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.
Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…
GMN 12203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14413
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
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 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
1968 THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995)
Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.
GMN 8776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10954
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1973 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.
French translation, 1976.
GMN 6311.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8059
1976 PEEL, Sir John Harold (1904 – 2005)
The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.
GMN 6742.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8106
1980 SPEERT, Harold (1915 – 2017)
Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.
GMN 6311.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8061
1981 ANONYMOUS; ROWLAND, Beryl Winnifred (1918 – 2003)
Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.
This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.
GMN 6981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9147
1987 DUDEN, Barbara (1942 – )
Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.
A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…
GMN 8048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10224
1990 MOSCUCCI, Ornella
The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.
GMN 10173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12362
1991 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); JOHNSON, Timothy Robert B.; WOODRUFF, J. Donald (1912 – 1996)
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.
GMN 10983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13179
1991 DALLY, Ann (1926 – 2007)
Women under the knife: A history of surgery.
"In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was thei…
GMN 11221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13418
1991 BARKAI, Ron (1943 – ); HA-EDOMI, Doeg (1150 – )
Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.
Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…
GMN 12202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14412
1994 OUDSHOORN, Nelly E. J. (1950 – )
Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.
GMN 7187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9354
1994 O'DOWD, Michael J.; PHILIP, Elliot E.
The history of obstetrics and gynecology.
GMN 8733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10911
1996 KRUSE, Britta-Juliane
Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.
GMN 11898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14103
1998 BARQÂY, Rôn
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
GMN 8350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10526
1998 BARKAI, Ron (1943 – )
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…
GMN 11895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14100
2000 GREEN, Monica Helen
Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.
The Appendix is Medieval gynecological texts: A handlist. This is "a list of all gynecological texts currently known to me from western Europe written between the 4th and 15th centuries. It includes gynecological exce…
GMN 11893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14098
