Facets

2002 CE

#11032

Abortion in the ancient world.

2017 CE

#12467

Abortion law and policy around the world: In search of decriminalization.

Digital edition available from cdn1.sph.harvard.edu at this link.

1759 CE

#6848

Abregé de l'art des accouchements, dans lequel on donne les préceptes nécessaires pour le mettre heureusement en pratique, et auquel on a joint plusieurs observations intéressantes sur des cas singuliers.

After ten years as a midwife in Paris, Madame du Coudray was hired by King Louis XV to travel across France to better train rural midwives.There were political motivations for this; Louis wanted to boost a “decl…

1780 CE

#5421

Account of a woman who had the smallpox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the foetus.

1799 CE

#6162

Account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog.

Home records (p. 162) that John Hunter suggested artificial insemination. The actual insemination was performed by the patient’s husband with a syringe.

1808 CE

#6164

Accounts of the pulvis parturiens, a remedy for quickening child-birth.

The first use of ergot in the induction of labor in America. Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1935, pp. 21-23.

1945 CE

#6233

Acute inversion of the uterus.

O’Sullivan’s method of replacement by intravaginal hydraulic pressure.

1533 CE–1534 CE

#6974

Aetii Amideni quem alii Antiochenum vocant medici clarissimi libri XVI. tomos divisi : quorum primus & ultimus Ioan. Baptista Montano Veronensi medico, secundus Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi, & ipso medicinae professore, interpretibus latinitate donati sunt. In quo opere cuncta quae ad curandi artem pertinent congesta sunt, ex omnibus qui usq[ue] ad eius tempora scripserant, diligentissime excerpta. Additus est index in omneis tomos copiosissimus. 3 vols.

J. B. Montanus and Janus Cornarius prepared the first edition of Aetius's collected works in Latin translation. That edition was the first to include Aetius's writings on obstetrics, which epitomized all previous know…

1900 CE

#6112

Aflap operation for atresia of the vagina.

Noble introduced a flap operation for atresia of the vagina.

1998 CE

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1818 CE

#6168

Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und über die künstliche Frühgeburt.

Artificial induction of premature labour.

1935 CE

#6132.1

Amenorrhea associated with bilateral polycystic ovaries.

Stein–Leventhal syndrome.

1930 CE

#6223

Amniography; preliminary report.

Introduction of amniography. With J. D. Miller and L. E. Holly.

1861 CE

#6049

Amputation of the cervix uteri.

Sims’s method for amputating the cervix.

1726 CE

#6017

An account of a dropsy of the left ovary of a woman, aged 58, cured by a large incision made in the side of the abdomen.

Houstoun was the first to treat ovarian edema by tapping the cyst, 1701. For biographical note, see J. Obst. Gynaec. Brit. Comw., 1973, 80, 193-200.

1789 CE

#6021

An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium.

Matthew Baillie’s notable anatomico-pathological studies on dermoid cysts of the ovary. Also published in Lond. med. J., 1789, 10, 322-32.

1890 CE

#6245

An address on the surgical aspect of impacted labour.

The Tait–Porro operation, by which Tait performed Caesarean section in cases of placenta previa.

1818 CE

#6167

An analysis of the subject of extrauterine foetation and of the retroversion of the gravid uterus.

Expansion of No. 6166. First book on the subject.

1794 CE

#6157.1

An anatomical description of the human gravid uterus and its contents.

Hunter’s text for No. 6157, edited and published by Matthew Baillie after William Hunter's death. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2015 CE

#12201

An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).

This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in E…

1733 CE

#6156.2

An essay on the improvement of midwifery.

Gives the first published account of the forceps, kept secret by the Chamberlen family for generations. Chapman was the second person in England to teach midwifery publicly. The first edition of his book was not illus…

1823 CE

#6273

An essay on the proximate cause of the disease called phlegmasia dolens.

Davis was the first to state that phlegmasia alba dolens was due to inflammation of the veins. He was physician-accoucheur at the birth of Queen Victoria.

1775 CE

#6158

An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases.

Rigby differentiated between premature separation of the normal placenta (accidental hemorrhage) and placenta praevia (unavoidable hemorrhage).

1751 CE

#6268

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 …

1837 CE

#6173

An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy.

“Montgomery’s glands”, the sebaceous glands of the areola, were previously described by Morgagni. They are described, with his “tubercles” (the secondary areola seen in pregnancy) in the …

1784 CE

#6271

An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremeties, which sometimes happens to lying-in-women.

First clinical description of phlegmasia alba dolens. White ascribed it to destruction of the lymphatics due to pressure of the foetal head.

1938 CE

#6133

An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.

Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.

1774 CE

#6157

Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.

Hunter originally trained as Smellie’s assistant. Once he achieved brilliant professional and financial success he became a great collector of rare books and manuscripts, coins, paintings, minerals, shells, and …

1933 CE

#6266

Anatomical variations in the female pelvis and their effect in labor, with a suggested classification.

The modern classification of the female pelvis is based on the work of Caldwell and Moloy.

1877 CE

#6069

Anatomische Bedeutung der Erosionen am Scheidentheil.

1915 CE

#6124

Anterior colporrhaphy and its combination with amputation of the cervix as a single operation.

Fothergill’s modification of Donald’s operation for prolapse.

1783 CE

#12164

Aphorisms in the application and use of the forceps and vectis, on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemorrhage and with convulsions.

Denman "was the first physician whose authority made the practice general in England of inducing premature labour in cases of narrow pelvis and other conditions, in which the mother's life is imperilled by the attempt…

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1771 CE

#6020

Appendix to Lynn’s The history of a fatal inversion of the uterus.

First accurate description of retroversion of the uterus.

1684 CE

#7030

Aristoteles master-piece, or the secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof . . .

The first sex manual in English, neither by Aristotle or a "masterpiece", provided its readers with practical advice on copulation, conception, pregnancy and birth.This anonymous, inexpensively printed work proved to …

2008 CE

#12555

At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.

",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…

1724 CE

#6016

Ausführliche Abhandlung von den Zufällen und Kranckheiten des Frauenzimmers.

1897 CE

#6106

Bakteriologie des weiblichen Genital-Kanales. 2 vols.

2014 CE

#11513

Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.

1887 CE

#6197

Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.

1994 CE

#7187

Beyond the natural body. An archeology of sex hormones.

1839 CE

#6258

Beyträge zur Kenntniss der Rückgrathskrümmungen, und der mit demselben zusammentreffenden Abweichungen des Brustkorbes und Beckens.

Original description of spondylolisthesis.

1834 CE

#11151

Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1924 CE–1929 CE

#6129

Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes. Hrsg. von 8 vols.

Second edition, 10 vols. & index, 1941-55.

1978 CE

#532.5

Birth after the reimplantation of a human embryo. (Letter to the editor).

First successful human birth after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.

1999 CE

#11632

Birth chairs, midwives and medicine.

2000 CE

#12142

Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.

2006 CE

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

2016 CE

#9454

Birthing bodies in early modern France: Stories of gender and reproduction.

1919 CE

#6220

Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.

“Cullen’s sign”.