Facets

1943 CE

#6305

The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.

Second edition, 1950.

1887 CE

#6085

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.

1849 CE

#6177

The heart-clot.

Meigs drew attention to embolism as a cause of sudden death in childbed. Previously such deaths had been attributed to syncope.

1901 CE

#6287

The history of ancient gynaecology.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2020 CE

#13512

The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.

"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…

1994 CE

#8733

The history of obstetrics and gynecology.

1938 CE

#2682.51

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.

2001 CE

#12953

The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.

The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…

1976 CE

#6742.8

The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.

1995 CE

#12022

The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.

"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…

1850 CE

#13760

The marriage guide, or natural history of generation; a private instructor for married persons and those about to marry, both male and female, in every thing concerning the physiology and relations of the sexual system and production or prevention of offspring; including all the new discoveries, never before given in the English language.

Digital facsimile of the 196th edition, much enlarged and improved from Google Books at this link. Sappol (2002) estimated that Hollick's works on sexuality and reproduction underwent at least 500 editions of between …

1847 CE

#13469

The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility

Published pseudonymously by radical printer Charles Lohman who was married to the abortionist/entrpreneur Ann Lohman known as "Madame Restell." The Lohmans also sold condoms. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Libra…

2000 CE

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.

2004 CE

#10553

The medical delivery business: Health reform, childbirth, and the economic order.

1671 CE

#6156.1

The midwives book: or the whole art of midwifery discovered.

The first book written by an English midwife. Sharp was the most accomplished midwife of 17th-century England. Scholarly, extensively annotated edition edited by Jane Hobby, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press,…

2009 CE

#11484

The modern period: Menstruation in twentieth-century America.

2020 CE

#13518

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

2020 CE

#11485

The myth of the perfect pregnancy: A history of miscarriage in America.

1919 CE

#6251

The newer methods of cesarean section. Report of 40 cases.

DeLee’s low cervical operation (laparotrachelotomy).

2000 CE

#6904

The obstetrician’s armamentarium: Historical obstetric instruments and their inventors.

1852 CE

#13308

The people's medical lighthouse; a series of popular and scientific essays on the nature, uses, and diseases of the lungs, heart, liver, stomach, kidneys, womb and blood; also a key to the causes, prevention, remedies, and cure of pumonary and other kinds of consumption;....Marriage guide....

One of the more comprehensive American works on popular medicine from the mid-19th century, frequently reprinted. The author, who published the work himself from his address in New York City, describes himself as A.M.…

1898 CE

#7011

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

1880 CE

#13169

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…

1909 CE

#6215

The pituitary body and the therapeutic value of the infundibular extract in shock, uterine atony, and intestinal paresis.

1864 CE

#6185

The principles and practice of obstetrics.

Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completi…

1910 CE

#6121

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.

1920 CE

#12489

The prophylactic forceps operation.

DeLee's advocacy of prophylactic forceps delivery made forceps deliveries more common. It remains probably his most controversial contribution to obstetrics. "At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920…

1877 CE

#11912

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…

1955 CE

#8391

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…

1900 CE

#6109

The removal of pelvic inflammatory masses by the abdomen after bisection of the uterus.

2013 CE

#8697

The rise of fetal and neonatal physiology: Basic science to clinical care.

1950 CE

#13609

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…

1990 CE

#10173

The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.

1947 CE

#6311

The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.

Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.

2008 CE

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

1935 CE

#6230

The substance responsible for the traditional clinical effect of ergot.

Isolation and introduction of ergometrine.

1853 CE

#6039

The surgical treatment of certain fibrous tumours of the uterus.

Atlee was among the first to study the surgical removal of uterine fibroids.

2002 CE

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…

1817 CE

#6023

Three cases of extirpation of diseased ovaria.

McDowell was a pioneer ovariotomist. Although not the first to perform this operation, he deserves credit for putting it upon a permanent basis. The above records his first ovariotomy, performed in 1809, together with…

1721 CE

#6150

Traité complet des accouchemens.

Mauquest de la Motte applied podalic version to head presentations. English translation, prepared at the suggestion of William Smellie, 1746.

1858 CE

#11133

Traité de la folie des femmes enceintes, des nouvelles accouchées et des nourrices et considérations médico-légales qui se rattachent à ce sujet.

The first work on psychiatric illnesses of women during and after pregnancy. Marcé provided extensive clinical descriptions of syndromes, with 79 case examples, and summarized etiological theories and treatment…

1612 CE

#9518

Traité des hermaphrodits parties génitales accouchements des femmes et traitement qui est requis pour les relever en santé, et bien élever leurs enfants. Où sont expliquez la figure des laboureur, et verger du genre humain, signes de pucelage, defloration, conception, et la belle industrie dont use nature en la promotion du concept et plante prolifique.

In 1601 the Rouen physician Duval was summoned by the Rouen parlement to examine Marie Le Marcis, who at the age of 20 had discovered she was a man and had determined to marry, only to be imprisoned for lesbianism and…

1761 CE–1765 CE

#6019

Traité des maladies des femmes. 6 vols.

Mettler considers this “the most pretentious gynecologic work of the [eighteenth] century… chiefly useful for its historical orientation”. English translation, 3 vols., London, 1762-67.

1878 CE

#6193

Traité du palper abdominal au point de vue obstétrical.

Pinard, professor of obstetrics in Paris, showed the importance of abdominal palpation as an aid to obstetrical diagnosis. English translation, 1885.

1833 CE

#6028

Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.

Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.

1581 CE

#6236

Traitte nouveau de l’hysterotomotokie, ou enfantement caesarien.

Rousset records 15 successful Caesarean sections carried out by various persons during the preceding 80 years.

1936 CE

#6281

Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.

Chemotherapeutic treatment of puerperal sepsis.

1892 CE

#6203

Tubo peritoneal ectopic gestation.

1934 CE

#6132.01

Tumors of the female pelvic organs.

“Meigs’s syndrome” – fibroma of the ovary with pleural effusion – is described on pp. 262-63.

1896 CE

#6103

Über Blasen-Gonorrhöe.

Wertheim demonstrated the gonococcus in acute cystitis.