1581 ROUSSET, François [ROUSSETUS; ROSSETUS] (1535 – 1590)
Traitte nouveau de l’hysterotomotokie, ou enfantement caesarien.
Rousset records 15 successful Caesarean sections carried out by various persons during the preceding 80 years.
GMN 6236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7876
1596 MERCURIO, Geronimo Scipione (1550 – 1616)
La commare o riccoglitrice.
First Italian book on obstetrics. It is a work of importance for the study of the history of Caesarean section; in it Mercurio advocated the Caesarean operation in cases of contracted pelvis.
GMN 6144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7691
1663 ROONHUYZE, Hendrick van (1622 – 1672)
Heel-konstige aanmerkkingen betreffende de gebreeken der vrouwen.
Roonhuyze’s book is regarded as the first work on operative gynecology in the modern sense. He successfully performed caesarean section several times, and he used retractors for the repair of vesicovaginal fistulae. E…
GMN 6015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7207
1751 STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806); BURTON, John (1697 – 1771)
An essay towards a complete new system of midwifery, theoretical and practical.
Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section. Laurence Steme satirized him as “Dr. Slop” in The life and opinions of Tristram Sha…
GMN 6268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7976
1798 BARLOW, James (1767 – 1839)
A case of the caesarean operation performed, and the life of the woman preserved. IN: Medical records and researches selected from the papers of a private medical association, pp. 154-163.
This is apparently the first Caesarean section in England from which the mother recovered. It was performed on 27 November 1793. Barlow’s account is reproduced by Young (No. 6307), pp. 54-58. A note on Barlow is in Pr…
GMN 6236.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7885
1818 –1825 OSIANDER, Friedrich Benjamin (1759 – 1822)
Handbuch der Entbindungskunst. 3 vols. in 5.
Includes (Bd. 2, Abt II, p. 302) description of Osiander’s lower-segment Caesarean operation.
GMN 6237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7888
1825 RITGEN, Ferdinand August Marie Franz (1787 – 1867)
Geschichte eines mit ungünstigem Erfolge verrichteten Bauchscheidenschnitts und Folgerung daraus.
Ritgen first performed extraperitoneal Caesarean section in 1821.
GMN 6238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7890
1870 THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903)
Gastro-elytrotomy; a substitute for the Caesarean section.
Thomas revived and modified Ritgen’s operation.
GMN 6239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7891
1876 PORRO, Edoardo (1842 – 1902)
Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo.
Caesarean section with excision of the uterus and adnexa (“Porro’s operation”).
GMN 6240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7892
1882 KEHRER, Ferdinand Adolf (1837 – 1914)
Ueberein modificirtes Verfahren beim Kaiserschnitte.
Kehrer improved the technique of the Caesarean operation.
GMN 6241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7920
1882 SÄNGER, Max (1853 – 1903)
Der Kaiserschnitt bei Uterusfibromen nebst vergleichender Methodik der Sectio Caesarea und der Porro-Operation.
“Sänger’s operation” – the so-called “classic Caesarean section”. A preliminary note is in Arch. Gynak., 1882, 19, 370.
GMN 6242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7921
1889 CHAMPNEYS, Sir Francis Henry (1848 – 1930)
A case of Caesarean section for contracted pelvis.
Champney’s advocacy for the Sänger operation was a powerful factor in its adoption in Britain.
GMN 6243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7922
1889 HALBERTSMA, Tjalling (1841 – 1898)
Eclampsia gravidarum: eene nieuwe indicatie voor sectie caesarea.
Halbertsma first performed Caesarean section in puerperal convulsions.
GMN 6244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7924
1890 TAIT, Robert Lawson (1845 – 1899)
An address on the surgical aspect of impacted labour.
The Tait–Porro operation, by which Tait performed Caesarean section in cases of placenta previa.
GMN 6245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7926
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
