Facets

1872 CE

#6188

Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern

Supplement to No. 424.

1872 CE

#6064

Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.

Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.

1906 CE

#6213

Die Mechanik der Geburt.

1919 CE

#6126

Die pathogenese der Meno- und besonders der Metrorrhagien.

First description of metropathia hemorrhagica.

1919 CE

#6280

Die pathologische Anatomie des Puerperalprozesses.

1900 CE–1904 CE

#6265

Die pathologischen Beckenformen.

Classic description and classification of pelvic deformities.

1907 CE

#6247

Die suprasymphysäre Entbindung und ihr Verhältniss zu den anderen Operationen bei engen Becken.

Suprasymphyseal transperitoneal Caesarean section.

1889 CE

#6088

Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.

1881 CE

#5924

Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.

Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin…

1904 CE

#6290

Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.

1854 CE

#6182

Difficult labors and their treatment.

Wright was responsible for the introduction of combined cephalic version.

1914 CE

#11906

Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women. With 628 illustrations, for the most part by Max Brödel

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1865 CE

#6056

Diseases of the ovaries.

Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858. The title page to this work states that a second volume would be published. By the time Wells issued the intended…

1865 CE

#6053

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

1801 CE

#6163

Drey Wahmehmungen von Schwangerschaften ausserhalb der Gebähr-mutter.

Interstitial pregnancy first reported.

1933 CE

#6132

Early diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix.

Schiller’s test for carcinoma of the cervix.

1969 CE

#532.4

Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes.

First successful in-vitro fertilization of human oocytes. In 2010 Robert Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization."

1889 CE

#6244

Eclampsia gravidarum: eene nieuwe indicatie voor sectie caesarea.

Halbertsma first performed Caesarean section in puerperal convulsions.

1897 CE

#6206

Een geval van ovariaalzwangerschap (zwangerschap in een Graafschen follikel).

First description of ovarian pregnancy.

1982 CE

#12469

Effet d’un stéroide anti-progestérone chez la femme: Interruption du cycle menstruel et de la grossesse au début.

"In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-…

1554 CE

#463

Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle von den Empfengknussen und Geburten der Menschen…

An improved version of Rösslin’s Swangern frawen. This contains the first true anatomical pictures in an obstetrics book. Rueff described smooth-edged forceps for delivery of a live baby, preceding Chamberl…

1878 CE

#6070

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

1825 CE

#14215

Elements of operative midwifery.

Davis introduced a number of improvements in instruments and techniques: “It outlines rules and precautions for undertaking operations, described the use of various forms of forceps, and provided twenty detailed…

1916 CE

#6124.1

Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus

Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary il…

1703 CE

#11667

Emmenologia: In qua fluxus mulierbris menstrui phaenomena, periodi, vitia cum medendi methodo, ad rationes mechanicas exiguntur.

Translated into English as Emmenologia: Written, in Latin, by the late learned Dr. John Freind. Translated into English by Thomas Dale, M.D. London: Printed for T. Cox, 1729. Digital facsimile of the 1752 English tran…

1872 CE

#6282

English midwives.

Reprinted with biographical sketch by J. L. Thornton, London, 1967.

1502 CE–1503 CE

#9325

Enneas muliebris.

This work was prepared for and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia by her physician, Bonaccioli, who guided her through 14 pregnancies, the last of which was fatal to both mother and child. The first three chapters concern f…

1897 CE

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925 CE

#6297

Entwicklund der Gerurtshilfe und Gynäkologie im 19. Jahrhundert.

1898 CE

#6107

Enucleation of uterine fibroids.

An outstanding account of myomectomy.

1923 CE

#6267

Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.

The earliest known description of puerperal fever.

1856 CE

#13687

Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.

Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…

1997 CE

#7722

Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the West.

A history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.

1826 CE

#7508

Every woman's book; or, what is love? Containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family.

This radical and progressive sex manual was the first book to specify methods of contraception, including the sponge, condoms, and withdrawal. It also took the position, radical at the time, that with respect to sexua…

1651 CE

#467

Exercitationes de generatione animalium.

Harvey was among the first to disbelieve the erroneous doctrine of the “preformation” of the fetus; he maintained that the organism derives from the ovum by the gradual building up and aggregation of its p…

1544 CE

#6009.1

Experimentarius medicinae. Continens Trotulae curandarum aegriudinum muliebrium ante, in & post partium lib. unicum, nusquam antea editum…[Georg Kraut]

First printed edition of the gynecological writings attributed to the woman physician, Trota, who is frequently called Trotula after the name of the collection of works with whom she is associated. Trota is said to ha…

2024 CE

#14319

Exposed: The hidden history of the pelvic exam.

1863 CE

#6052

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

1854 CE

#6040

Extirpation of the uterus and ovaries for sarcomatous disease.

First successful abdominal hysterectomy, 25 May, 1853. An account of Burnham’s work is given by J. C. Irish in Trans. Amer. med. Ass. 1878, 29, 447-61.

1876 CE

#6191

Extra-uterine pregnancy.

Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so.

2014 CE

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

1959 CE

#532.3

Fertilization of rabbit ova in vitro.

The birth of normal rabbits from in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer was the first proof that births resulting from this procedure are normal.

1951 CE

#532.2

Fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa deposited into the Fallopian tubes.

Discovery that maturation of the sperm in the mammalian female tract is a necessary step in reproduction. This was co-discovered and called capacitation by Austin in the same year. See C.R. Austin, Observation on the …

1965 CE

#11463

Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States.

1884 CE

#6196

Five cases of extra-uterine pregnancy operated upon at the time of rupture.

The first successful operation for ruptured ectopic pregnancy was performed by Lawson Tait on 1 March 1883.

1963 CE

#6311.4

Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.

A continuation of No. 6303.

1832 CE

#7036

Fruits of philosophy, or the private companion of young married people,

First edition published privately and anonymously. Second edition, with additions, Boston, 1833. Many times reprinted. Republished by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant, 1891. Edited, with an introductory notice by No…

1870 CE

#6239

Gastro-elytrotomy; a substitute for the Caesarean section.

Thomas revived and modified Ritgen’s operation.

1884 CE

#6081

General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.

Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.

1990 CE

#12468

Génération pilule.

Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.