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1917 CE

#6295

L’utero attraverso i secoli da Erofilo al giorni nostri; storia, iconografia, struttura, fisiologia.

Contains an important collection of illustrations.

1596 CE

#6144

La commare o riccoglitrice.

First Italian book on obstetrics. It is a work of importance for the study of the history of Caesarean section; in it Mercurio advocated the Caesarean operation in cases of contracted pelvis.

1685 CE

#6148

La pratique des accouchemens soutenue d’un grand nombre d’observations.

Portal’s important treatise included his demonstration that version could be done with one foot. He also taught that face presentation usually ran a normal course. English translation, 1705.

1882 CE

#6284

Labor among primitive peoples.

Third edition, revised, 1884.

1899 CE

#4129

Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.

“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).

1851 CE

#6178

Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.

Classic description of pelvic hematocele.

1888 CE

#6199

Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele.

1887 CE

#6285

Les accouchements à la cour.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#11121

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1991 CE

#12202

Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.

Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…

1575 CE

#5565

Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.

Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cauter…

1903 CE

#11119

Les seins dans l'histoire.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2003 CE

#7721

Lust ohne Last: Geschichte der Empfängnisverhütung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.

Translated into English as Contraception: A History (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008).

2008 CE

#7130

Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.

Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.

1902 CE–1904 CE

#534.69

Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene. Volume 1, The foetus. Volume 2, The embryo.

Ballantyne was a pioneer advocate of antenatal care. Volume 2, The Embryo, is the most complete history of teratology in English, and among the best in any language. American edition, New York, 1905. Digital facsimile…

1701 CE

#6253

Manuale operatien, I. deel zijnde een neiuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouen.

This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the latter in complicating labor. The first edition contains a relatively unattractive frontispiece portrait o…

1938 CE

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1977 CE

#13376

Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings

The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."

1941 CE

#6232

Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics.

Amniotic fluid embolism described.

2017 CE

#9908

Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.

"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…

1985 CE

#8123

Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.

1936 CE

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.

1764 CE

#1731

Mémoire contre la légitimité des naissances prétendues tardives.

An attempt to set the minimum and maximum time limits of duration of human pregnancy. Supplement published in 1764.

1822 CE

#6171

Mémoire sur l’auscultation appliquée à l’étude de la grossesse.

Although not the first to record the auscultation of the fetal heart sound, Le Jumeau (Kergaradec), a pupil of Laennec, brought the importance of this diagnostic procedure to the notice of the medical profession. Laen…

1834 CE

#6029

Mémoire sur la restauration du périnée chez la femme dans les cas de division ou de rupture complète de cette partie.

Roux was the first to suture the ruptured female perineum.

1812 CE

#6165

Mémorial de l’art des accouchements.

Mme Boivin was one of the most famous of the Paris midwives. She improved the speculum and wrote intelligently on hydatidiform mole.

2007 CE

#8481

Midwifery, obstetrics and the rise of gynaecology: The uses of a sixteenth century compendium.

The compendium that King studied is Caspar Wolff's Gynaeciorum (1566, 1586-1588; Nos. 6011 and 6022). She concentrated on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from…

1977 CE

#12554

Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.

1967 CE

#6311.5

Milestones in midwifery.

Reprinted with No. 6311, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.

1927 CE

#6298

Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.

2005 CE

#11396

Molecular identification of bacteria associated with bacterial vaginosis.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Fredricks, Fiedler, Marrazzo. Using molecular methods, the authors confirmed that absence or greatly reduced number of Lactobacilli was associated with vaginosis. They …

1566 CE

#6136

Moschionos Peri gynaikeion pathon, id est…De morbis muliebribus liber unus; cum CONARDI GESNERI… scholiis & emendationibus nun primum editus opera ac studio CASPARI WOLPHII.

The earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of Soranus, the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity. Muscio was a pupil of Soranus. His book, the earliest copy of which is a manuscript dating …

2015 CE

#13745

Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie: Eighteenth century midwives and their patients.

2014 CE

#13528

Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.

1933 CE

#6225

Natural childbirth.

In this work Dick-Read coined the term "natural childbirth." He advocated natural childbirth for many years; he demonstrated that prenatal education in methods of relaxation in many cases makes labor almost painless.

1885 CE

#6264

Neuer Beitrag zur Aetiologie und Casuistik der Spondyl-olisthesis.

1920 CE

#6127

Nonoperative determination of patency of Fallopian tubes in sterility. Intra-uterine inflation with oxygen, and production of an artificial pneumoperitoneum.

Tubal insufflation method for the diagnosis and treatment of sterility due to occlusion of the Fallopian tubes.

1872 CE

#6062

Normal ovariotomy.

Battey’s ovariotomy operation for the treatment of non-ovarian conditions. This operation later acquired a greater significance in connection with more modern work on endocrinology. Preliminary communication in …

1914 CE

#6122

Note on determination of patency of Fallopian tubes by the use of collargol and x-ray shadow.

Cary was the first to perform salpingography.

1862 CE

#2166.1

Notes on arrow wounds.

The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …

1827 CE

#6172

Nouvelles recherches sur l’origine, la nature et le traitement de la mole vésiculaire ou grossesse hydatique.

Classic description of hydatidiform mole.

1877 CE

#6068

Noveau procédé pour la guérison du prolapsus utérin.

Le Fort’s operation for prolapse.

2006 CE

#9934

Nurse-midwifery: The birth of a new American profession.

1609 CE

#6145

Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes, et enfants nouveaux naiz.

The first book on obstetrics published by a midwife. Louise Bourgeois was accoucheuse to the French court. She was one of the pioneers of scientific midwifery; her Observations was the vade mecum of contemporary midwi…

1863 CE

#14136

Observations in midwifery. As also The countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum

First edition of this work written in English in the 17th century, privately published in 1863, supposedly in an edition of 100 copies, from a manuscript then owned by Blenkinsop. Willughby has been characterized as "…

1825 CE

#6026

Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria.

Lizars performed the first (unsuccessful) ovariotomy in Britain. His book made generally known the practical possibility of this operation.

1864 CE

#6054

Observations on ovariotomy, statistical and practical. Also, a successful case of entire removal of the uterus and its appendages.

For many years Clay was the most eminent ovariotomist in Great Britain. In all, he performed 395 ovariotomies, with a mortality of 25 percent.

1919 CE

#3136

Observations on the severe anaemias of pregnancy and the post-partum state.

Osler described his four-part classification of anemias of pregnancy: anemia from post-partum hemorrhage, severe anemia of pregnancy, post-partum anemia, and the acute anemia of post-partum sepsis. This was Osler's la…

1747 CE

#6152

Observations sur les causes et les accidens de plusieurs accouchemens laborieux.

Levret, who improved the obstetric forceps, was a famous teacher in Paris.