Facets

2011 CE

#10549

Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always read…

1932 CE

#12160

Brave new world.

"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…

1549 CE

#6140

Briefve collection de l'administration anatomique: avec la manière de conjoindre les os: et d’extraire les enfans tant mors que vivans du ventre de la mere, lors que nature de soy ne peult venir a son effect.

Paré’s revival of podalic version repopularized the procedure, which had been described by Soranus of Ephesus (No. 6008). English translation in The Workes of Ambroise Parey [sic], London, 1634. Digital f…

2013 CE

#10774

Broadcasting birth control: Mass media and family planning.

Explores the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of popula…

1986 CE

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

1495 CE

#6137.1

Büchlein der schwangeren Frauen.

The first obstetrical book printed in the vernacular. Facsimile edition, Munich, 1910. Ortoloff also wrote the first German pharmacopoeia. See No. 1794. ISTC No. io00113000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staat…

1951 CE

#12203

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…

1944 CE

#6307

Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.

1834 CE

#6028.1

Calculus in the bladder. Incontinence of urine. Vesico-vaginal fistula. Advantages of the gilt-wire suture.

Gosset repaired a vesicovaginal fistula of eleven years’ duration, using silver gilt-wire, removed after 9, 12 and 21 days respectively.

1817 CE

#6166

Case of an extra-uterine foetus, produced alive through an incision made into the vagina of the mother, who recovered after delivery, without any alarming symptoms.

Reports the first successful vaginotomy for abdominal pregnancy, as opposed to an abdominal laparotomy.

1822 CE

#6024

Case of ovarian dropsy, successfully removed by a surgical operation.

Smith was the first in the U.S.A. after McDowell to perform ovariotomy, for ovarian edema. Smith was apparently without knowledge of the previous operations of McDowell.

1843 CE

#6034

Case of ovarian tumors – both the right and the left being removed at the same operation.

First successful double oöphorectomy. Communicated in a letter to the editor by J. M. Foltz.

1829 CE

#6027

Case of successful excision of the cervis uteri in a scirrhous state.

First successful excision of the cervix in America. Reported by T. F. Gillan.

1860 CE

#6047

Case of successful operation for vesico-vaginal fistula.

Atlee’s operation for vesicovaginal fistula.

1839 CE

#6030

Case of vesico-vaginal fistula, successfully treated by an operation.

Hayward’s successful treatment of vesicovaginal fistula was performed after Mettauer’s, although reported earlier.

1734 CE

#6156.3

Cases in midwifry. Revised by Edward Hody.

Giffard was one of the first, after the Chamberlens, to use the forceps. His book contains, under case 14, the earliest published record of the use of the hitherto secret Chamberlen forceps, in 1726, together with ill…

1872 CE

#6065

Cases of intermenstrual or intermediate dysmenorrhoea.

First report of cases of Mittelschmerz.

1842 CE

#6032

Cases of peritoneal section, for the extirpation of diseased ovaria, by the large incision from sternum to pubes, successfully treated.

Clay, pioneer ovariotomist in Great Britain, introduced the word “ovariotomy”. (See also his later paper, No. 6054.)

1843 CE

#6176

Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.

Lever, of Guy’s Hospital, was the first to report the finding of albuminous urine in connection with puerperal convulsions.

1867 CE

#11641

Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.

“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the prope…

1995 CE

#11023

Catching babies: The professionalization of childbirth, 1870-1920.

Concerns the transition in the early 20th century in the United States from women midwives delivering most babies to professional obstetricians--mostly men--delivering almost all babies by the 1950s. It researches why…

1932 CE

#4400.2

Cerebral birth injuries: Their orthopaedic classification and subsequent treatment.

Phelps established the modern classification and approach to these injuries.

2018 CE

#10622

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

1924 CE

#6252

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.

2011 CE

#8615

Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.

2016 CE

#9479

Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.

1872 CE

#6063

Chronic cystitis in the female, and mode of treatment.

Vaginal cystotomy for chronic cystitis.

1935 CE

#6301

Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology.

1879 CE

#6194

Clinical lecture on hepatic disease in gynaecology and obstetrics.

Matthews Duncan pointed out that pernicious vomiting in pregnancy may be associated with hepatic lesions.

1866 CE

#6057

Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.

A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…

1860 CE–1862 CE

#6048

Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols.

One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1867.

1869 CE

#5610

Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.

Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…

2021 CE

#14318

Coming home: How midwives changed birth.

1521 CE

#367

Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia Mundini una cum textu ejusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto.

Giacomo Berengario da Carpi (Jacobus Berengarius Carpensis, Jacopo Barigazzi, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi or simply Carpus) introduced iconography and independent anatomical observation into the teaching of anatomy. H…

1943 CE

#5509

Congenital defects in infants following infectious diseases during pregnancy.

Figures demonstrating that rubella in the first or second month of pregnancy always results in an abnormal infant. With A. L. Tostevin, B. Moore, H. Mayo, and G. H. B. Black.

1859 CE

#6046

Congenital exstrophy of the urinary bladder, complicated with prolapsus uteri following pregnancy; successfully treated by a new plastic operation.

First successful plastic operation for exstrophy of the female bladder.

1895 CE

#6096

Conservative surgical treatment of para- and peri-uterine septic diseases.

1844 CE

#13608

Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1852 CE

#6179

Considérations sur l’avortement provoqué dans les cas de vomissements.

Classic description of hyperemesis gravidarum.

1933 CE–1939 CE

#6131

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.

1942 CE

#6232.1

Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.

1923 CE

#1641.2

Contraception (birth control). Its theory, history and practice. A manual for the medical and legal professions.

The first formal handbook on birth control.

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1994 CE

#10299

Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America.

1963 CE

#1671.6

Contraception through the ages.

1986 CE

#8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

1978 CE

#7115

Contraceptive technology.

Standard work on the subject; 20th edition, New York: Arden Media, 2011. Hatcher originated the work in 1978. Collaborators on the 20th edition are Hatcher, Kowal, Nelson, Policar, and Trusell. An offshoot of the main…

1891 CE

#6092

Contributions to the histogenesis of the papillary cystoma of the ovary.

1843 CE

#6035

Contributions to the pathology and treatment of disease of the uterus.

Simpson introduced many important procedures into gynecology and obstetrics; among them may be mentioned his use of the uterine sound for diagnosing retro-positions of the uterus

1844 CE–1845 CE

#267.1

Cours de microscopie. 1 vol. and atlas.

Donne's and Foucault's work was the first biomedical textbook to be illustrated with images made from photomicrographs, in this case daguerreotypes of blood cells. Among its noteworthy images are the first microphotog…