Facets

1937 CE

#6303

Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde. 1 Teil. Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt.

Forms Bd. 12, Teil 1, of Handbuch der Gynäkologie, hrsg. J. Veit u. Stoeckel. See also No. 6311.4

1906 CE

#6291

Geschichte der Geburtshüfe.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#6289

Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit. 2 pts.

A supplement to No. 6288.

1924 CE

#6296

Geschichte der Gynäkologie. In: J. von Halban and L. Seitz: Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.1, 1-202.

1908 CE

#6293

Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.

From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2001 CE–2013 CE

#8477

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

1825 CE

#6238

Geschichte eines mit ungünstigem Erfolge verrichteten Bauchscheidenschnitts und Folgerung daraus.

Ritgen first performed extraperitoneal Caesarean section in 1821.

1987 CE

#8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…

1834 CE

#14017

Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.

Concerns miscarriage and aberrant gestation rather than removal or expulsion of embryo or fetus. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1905 CE

#14095

Grundzüge einer Biologie der menschlichen Plazenta. Mit besonderer Berücksichtig der Fragen der fötalen Ernährung.

Discovery of Hofbauer cells, oval eosinophilic histiocytes with granules and vacuoles found in the placenta, which are of mesenchymal origin, in mesoderm of the chorionic villus, particularly numerous in early pregnan…

1606 CE

#6013.1

Gynaeciorum commentarius, de gravidarum parturientium, puerperarum & infantium, cura… Accessit elenchus auctorum in re medica cluentium, qui gynaecia scriptis clararunt & illustrarunt. Opera e studio Joan. Georgii Schenkii …

Schenck compiled the first bibliography of gynecology, entitled Pinax auctorum in re medica, Graecorum, Latinorum priscorum, Arabum Latinobarbarorum, Latinorum recentiorum, tum & peregrinis liniguis cluentium, Exstant…

1586 CE–1588 CE

#6012

Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum affectibus commentarii Graecorum, Latinorum, barbarorum, iam olim & nunc recens editorum: in tres tomos digesti, et necessariis passim imaginibus illustrati. 4 vols.

A hugely enlarged version of No. 6011, with texts in Greek as well as Latin. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Google Books at this link.

1597 CE

#6013

Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum tum communibus, turn gravidarum, parientum, et puerperarum affectibus et morbis, libri Graecorum, Arabum, Latinorum veterum et recentium quotquot extant, parti nunc primum editi, partim vero denuo recogniti, emendati, necessariis imaginibus exornati, & optimorum scriptorum autoritatibus illustrati.

Spach was the editor of this collection of gynecological writings. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1566 CE

#6011

Gynaeciorum, hoc est, de mulierum turn aliis, tum gravidarum, parientium et puerperarum affectibus et morbis, libri veterum ac recentiorum aliquot, partim nunc primum editi, partim multo quam antea castigatiores.

The first encyclopedia of gynecology and obstetrics, originally conceived by Conrad Gesner, who collected material for the purpose. Wolff, Gesner’s literary executor, added material and published the collection …

1892 CE

#11634

Gynaecological technique: A brief summary of the principles involved, as well as the technique involved in the gynæcological operations performed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The significance of the operation and its technical surroundings to gynaecological practice.

Includes 14 photographic illustrations showing Kelly's gynecological operating room, antiseptic and aseptic apparatus, and his assistants preparing for surgery. The text includes descriptions of the apparatus and tech…

1936 CE

#11896

Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.

1818 CE–1825 CE

#6237

Handbuch der Entbindungskunst. 3 vols. in 5.

Includes (Bd. 2, Abt II, p. 302) description of Osiander’s lower-segment Caesarean operation.

1926 CE

#7105

Happiness in marriage.

Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.

1663 CE

#6015

Heel-konstige aanmerkkingen betreffende de gebreeken der vrouwen.

Roonhuyze’s book is regarded as the first work on operative gynecology in the modern sense. He successfully performed caesarean section several times, and he used retractors for the repair of vesicovaginal fistu…

2008 CE

#10635

Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)

A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.

2017 CE

#11038

Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…

1887 CE

#6286

Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.

182-page appendix: "L'arsenal obstétrical", containing numerous illustrations of instruments, at end. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1986 CE

#13786

Histoire illustrée de la contraception: De l'antiquité à nos jours.

1954 CE

#6311.1

Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.

Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.

1927 CE

#6299

History of British midwifery from 1650-1800.

1944 CE

#6306

History of gynecology.

1983 CE

#10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…

1847 CE–1848 CE

#6275

Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.

Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicemia. He concluded that the doctors and students of Vienna’s First Obstetrical Clinic carried the infec…

2011 CE

#10545

Hot flushes, cold science: A history of the modern menopause.

1987 CE

#11192

Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.

Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1840 CE

#6031.1

Hydatids, terminating fatally, by haemorrhage.

First report of a chorionic tumor.

1887 CE

#6086

Hysterorrhaphy.

1973 CE

#6311.6

Iconographia gyniatrica: A pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics.

French translation, 1976.

1946 CE

#12822

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), an annotated bibliography

1822 CE

#1696.1

Illustrations and proofs of the principle of population including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others.

Place was the first important proponent of birth control in any English speaking country. The above work openly advocates contraception, though without indicating how it was to be achieved. Reprinted with additional m…

2013 CE

#7501

Imaging and imagining the fetus: The development of obstetric ultrasound.

2017 CE

#11053

Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.

1944 CE

#532.1

In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.

First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.

2018 CE

#10696

In-vitro fertilization: The pioneers' history. Edited by Gabor Kovacs, Peter Brinsden and Alan DeCherney.

Thirty-two chapters devoted to all aspects and some key moments in the history of IVF, together with histories of the development of the science around the world.

2017 CE

#10754

Infertility in early modern England.

1967 CE

#6235.2

Intrauterine diagnosis and management of genetic defects.

Amniocentesis used to diagnose genetic disorders in utero. First detailed report. See also Fuchs, F., Genetic information from amniotic fluid contents. Lancet, 1960, 2, 180. "During the course of the criminal investig…

1842 CE–1843 CE

#6033

Invention du spéculum plein et brisé.

Description of the speculum invented by Récamier.

1958 CE

#2682

Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed ultrasound.

Donald, J. MacVicar and T. G. Brown used an ultrasound scanner to investigate the pregnant abdomen (see also No. 6235.1).

2005 CE

#10535

Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.

2018 CE

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

1901 CE

#9904

L'Avortement

2015 CE

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

1753 CE

#6153

L’art des accouchemens.

Besides introducing a curved forceps (see No. 6152) Levret invented several other obstetric instruments and made fundamental observations on pelvic anomalies. His book covered the whole field of obstetrics and remaine…

1781 CE

#6255

L’art des accouchemens. 2 vols.

Baudelocque invented a pelvimeter and advanced the knowledge of pelvimetry and of the mechanism of labor. The external conjugate diameter is known as “Baudelocque’s diameter”. English translation, Lo…

1933 CE

#6300

L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.