Facets

1906 CE

#843.1

Über die direkte Ableitung der Aktionsströme des menschlichen Herzens vom Oesophagus und über das Elektrokardiogramm des Fötus.

Fetal electrocardiogram recorded. Cremer was also the first to record an electrocardiogram with an electrode in the esophagus.

1895 CE

#6097.1

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.

1877 CE

#6066.1

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

Choriocarcinoma first reported.

1934 CE

#6227

Über eine neue chemische Schwangerschaftsreaktion.

Kapeller-Adler test for diagnosis of pregnancy.

1895 CE

#6098

Über Exstirpation der Vagina.

The operation of excision of the vagina was introduced by Olshausen.

1898 CE

#6246

Über vaginalen Kaiserschnitt.

The vaginal Caesarean operation was introduced by Dührssen in April, 1895.

1890 CE

#4222

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 “Trendelenbu…

1896 CE

#6101

Ueber das Fibrosarcoma ovarii mucocellulare (carcinomatodes).

Original description of “Krukenberg’s tumor”.

1861 CE

#6184

Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.

Braun’s decapitation hook.

1876 CE

#6190

Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.

“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague.

1824 CE

#6025

Ueber den Gebärmutterkrebs, dessen Entstehung und Verhütung.

Classic account of cancer of the uterus.

1896 CE

#6102

Ueber den künstlichen Ersatz der Scheide.

Mackenrodt’s operation for the plastic reconstruction of the vagina.

1819 CE

#6169

Ueber den Mechanismus der Geburt.

Best work of its time on the mechanism of labor. English translation, London, 1829.

1916 CE

#6219

Ueber die Anlegung der Zange am nicht rotierten Kopf mit Beschreibung eines neuen Zangenmodelles und einer neuen Anlegungsmethode.

Kielland forceps. English translation and historical background in E.P. Jones, Kielland’s forceps, London, 1952.

1911 CE

#6216

Ueber die Anwendung des Roentgenverfahrens bei der Diagnose der Schwangerschaft.

First use of x rays for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

1879 CE

#6072

Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses.

First total hysterectomy by the vaginal route.

1884 CE

#6080

Ueber die Enucleation interstitieller Myome.

1881 CE

#6073

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&…

1877 CE

#6067

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.

1854 CE

#6041

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.

1871 CE

#6263.1

Ueber die hintere Scheitelbeinstellung, eine nicht selten Art von fehlerhafter Einstellung des Kopfes unter der Geburt.

“Litzmann’s obliquity” or posterior parietal presentation.

1890 CE

#6089

Ueber die Pseudomucine der cystischen Ovariengeschwülste.

1881 CE

#6074

Ueber die theilweise und vollständige Ausschneidung der carcinomatösen Gebärmutter.

1735 CE–1756 CE

#6113

Ueber die Vortheile der suprasymphysären Fascienquerschnitts für die gynäkologischen Koeliotomieen.

“Pfannenstiel’s incision”.

1793 CE

#6022

Ueber die Wirkungen der Schnürbrüste.

Soemmerring enumerated the bad effects of tight corsets on the internal organs of women. His book created much interest and resulted in a great decline in the fad of tight lacing and hoop skirts. This is the second ed…

1895 CE

#6097

Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form des Ovarial carcinoms.

Granulosa cell tumor first described.

1885 CE

#6082

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”.

1893 CE

#6094

Ueber Sarcoma uteri deciduo-cellulare und andere deciduale Geschwülste.

A detailed classification of “deciduomata”, chorionic neoplasms, and a review of the literature.

1895 CE

#6099

Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.

Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.

1886 CE

#6083

Ueber ventrale Operation bei Prolapsus und Retroversio uteri.

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

1882 CE

#6241

Ueberein modificirtes Verfahren beim Kaiserschnitte.

Kehrer improved the technique of the Caesarean operation.

1935 CE

#6280.1

Unsere Erfahrungen mit Prontosil bei Puerperalfieber.

First report of the use of an antimicrobial agent in the treatment of obstetric infections.

1892 CE

#6095

Vaginal hysterectomy in bilateral peri-uterine suppuration.

Henrotin’s method of removing the uterus.

1870 CE

#6061

Vaginal ovariotomy.

First vaginal ovariotomy.

1996 CE

#11898

Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.

2007 CE

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …

1921 CE

#6221

Version.

Potter’s operation of podalic version.

1901 CE–1902 CE

#6288

Versuch einer Geschichte der Geburtshilfe. 2te. Aufl. 2 vols.

First edition, 1839-45. Continuation by R. Dohm, for the period 1840-80, forming Bd. 3 (see No. 6289).

1868 CE

#6058

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.

1840 CE

#6031

Vesico-vaginal fistula.

The first successful operation for vesicovaginal fistula is believed to be that performed in August 1838, by Mettauer, a Virginian gynecologist. He introduced metallic sutures and a retention catheter.

1865 CE

#10273

Wandtafeln zur Schwangerschafts- und Geburtskunde. Text volume in quarto format plus atlas in double elephant folio format (915 x 650mm.)

This huge atlas of obstetric wall charts contains 20 chromolithographed plates measuring over 3 feet by 2 feet, illustrating the female reproductive anatomy, stages of pregnancy, normal and breech presentations of the…

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

2016 CE

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

1970 CE

#10554

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…

1991 CE

#11221

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…

2000 CE

#11893

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…

1915 CE

#6123

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.

1899 CE

#6109.1

Zur Casuistik einiger seltenerer Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.

“Brenner tumor” first described; see also No. 6118.

1876 CE

#6066

Zur Enucleation der intraparietalen Myome des Corpus uteri.

1900 CE

#6114

Zur Frage der Radical operation beim Uteruskrebs.

Wertheim’s radical operation for cancer of the uterus.