Facets

1958 CE

#6311.2

Obstetric and gynecologic milestones: essays in eponymy.

79 essays with historical accounts, excerpts from sources, etc.

1929 CE

#6299.1

Obstetric forceps, its history and evolution.

1980 CE

#6311.7

Obstetrics and gynecology in America: A history.

1904 CE

#9530

Obstetrics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#6210.1

Obstetrics.

The most famous American textbook of obstetrics.

1864 CE

#6186

On combined external and internal version.

Introduction of combined podalic version.

1860 CE

#6043.1

On diseases peculiar to women, including displacements of the uterus.

Chapter 5 includes a lengthy description of the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6185.

1858 CE

#6044

On epicystotomy.

Noeggerath, who devised the operation of epicystotomy, spent many years in America, where he became a leading gynecologist and obstetrician.

1868 CE

#6187

On the condition of the uterus in obstructed labour.

1872 CE

#6189

On the contractions of the uterus throughout pregnancy: Their physiological effects and their value in the diagnosis of pregnancy.

“Braxton Hicks’s sign”.

1854 CE

#6181

On the displacements of the uterus.

“Duncan’s folds”, the peritoneal folds of the uterus. Republished in book form, Edinburgh, 1854. Duncan, a leading Edinburgh obstetrician, became lecturer on the subject at St. Bartholomew’s Ho…

1887 CE–1888 CE

#6087

On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.

Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.

1892 CE

#6093.1

On the occurrence of pleural effusion in association with disease of the abdomen.

Lawson Tait was apparently the first to describe what is now known as Meigs’s syndrome (ovarian fibroma combined with pleural effusion).

2008 CE

#12331

On the shoulders of giants: Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology. 2nd edition.

Third edition entitled Eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

1865 CE

#6055

On the treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility, resulting from anteflexion of the uterus.

Emmet, a disciple of Sims, was an outstanding gynecological surgeon.

1900 CE

#6207

On the treatment of eclampsia.

The first of Stroganoff s important papers on the pathogenesis and treatment of eclampsia.

1852 CE

#6037

On the treatment of vesico-vaginal fistula.

Original description of Sims’s operation for the treatment of vesicovaginal fistula; also describes “Sims’s position, the knee–chest position. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 677-712.

1862 CE

#6050

On vaginismus.

1945 CE

#6309

One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.

1570 CE

#5372

Opera medicinalia.

Opera medicinalia was the first medical book printed in the Western Hemisphere, and its botanical images were the first illustrations of plants printed in the Western Hemisphere. Of the original edition only two copie…

1908 CE

#6119

Operation in cases of complete prolapsed.

Donald’s operation for prolapse.

1912 CE

#6250

Operative Gynäkologie. 3rd ed.

Includes (p. 879) first description of Krönig’s operation of transperitoneal lower-segment Caesarean section.

1898 CE

#6108

Operative gynecology. 2 vols.

Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most fa…

1486 CE–1487 CE

#6316.1

Opusculum aegritudinum puerorum.

A work on disorders of pregnant women as well as on pediatrics. It describes 52 childhood diseases, providing the name, the causes, symptoms, prognosis and treatment of each, drawing on Greek authors, Arabs (especiall…

1597 CE

#802

Opusculum physiologum & anatomicum in duos libellos distinctum: In quibus primùm, de integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis, deinde, de grauiditate & partu naturali mulierum in quo ossa pubis & ilium distrahi, dilucidè tractatur ....

In 1595 Pineau demonstrated the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart, settling the question of the perviousness of the septum of the heart. His work was first published in 1597. He published this study in a fran…

1550 CE

#6142

Ordnung eines erbarn Raths der Statt Regenspurg, die Hebammen betreffende.

The earliest public document in the vernacular containing legislation governing midwives. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1888 CE

#13468

Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1917 CE

#6125

Översikt över resultaten av kräftbehandling vid Radiumhemmet i Stockholm 1910-1915.

The Stockholm method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus, as carried out at the Radiumhemmet, Stockholm, follows the technique devised by Forssell.

1901 CE

#6115

Panhysterokolpectomy; a new prolapsus operation.

1921 CE

#6128

Perforating hemorrhagic (chocolate) cysts of the ovary.

The true nature of ovarian endometriomata was elucidated by Sampson.

1855 CE

#7545

Physical, sexual and natural religion: by a student of medicine.

Drysdale emphasized that sexual intercourse should be pleasurable for both sexes, but believed that the ever-present possibility of pregnancy prevented it from being so. He also believed that overpopulation itself was…

1919 CE

#8900

Pioneers of birth control in England and America.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2022 CE

#13814

Placental tissue destruction and insufficiency from COVID-19 causes stillbirth and neonatal death from hypoxic-ischemic injury: A study of 68 cases with SARS-CoV-2 placentitis from 12 countries.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Schwartz, Avvad-Portari, Babál, et al.... "Design.—Case-based retrospective clinico-pathological analysis by a multinational group of 44 perinatal speciali…

1934 CE

#11001

Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.

1767 CE

#6156

Practical directions, shewing a method of preserving the perinaeum in birth, and delivering the placenta without violence.

Harvie, Smellie’s successor, advocated external expression of the placenta instead of traction on the cord, anticipating Credé in this connection by almost a century (see No. 6183). Reprinted in H. Thoms:…

1772 CE

#6269

Practical observations on the child-bed fever.

Leake insisted on the contagious nature of puerperal fever. Reprinted, London, Sydenham Society, 1949.

1821 CE–1825 CE

#6170

Pratique des accouchemens…par Marie Louise La Chapelle. Publiés par Antoine Dugès. 3 vols.

Mme La Chapelle was a famous midwife and a colleague of Baudelocque. She supervised 5,000 deliveries and her vast experience enabled her to write her book. She reduced the 94 theoretical presentations suggested by Bau…

1939 CE

#6231

Prediction and prevention of late pregnancy accidents in diabetes.

First report of hormone treatment. Written with R.S. Titus, E.P. Joslin, and H. Hunt.

1855 CE

#6276

Puerperal fever, as a private pestilence.

Because his first paper (No. 6274) had been published in a short-lived journal with very small circulation, Holmes enlarged his famous essay on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, and in this reiteration mentioned …

1890 CE

#6090

Pus in the pelvis and how to deal with it.

1970 CE

#7783

Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.

In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.

1947 CE

#6234

Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.

Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.

1838 CE

#6174

Recherches d’anatomie et de physiologie sur le système vasculaire sanguin de l’utérus humain pendant la gestation, et plus spécialement sur les vaisseaux utero-placentaires.

Jacquemier’s sign, diagnostic of pregnancy.

1573 CE

#6143

Reformation oder Ordnung für die Hebammen.

Legislation governing the practice of midwifery was introduced in the city of Frankfurt in 1573, Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link.

1879 CE

#5615

Remarks on forcipressure and the use of pressure-forceps in surgery.

Spencer Wells forceps.

1879 CE

#6071

Removal of normal ovaries.

Lawson Tait reported that he had performed Battey’s operation on 1 August 1872, 16 days before Battey. See No. 6062.

1892 CE

#10568

Researches in female pelvic anatomy.

The first cross-sectional anatomy of the pelvic anatomy during the puerperium, the period of about six weeks after childbirth during which the mother's reproductive organs return to their original non-pregnant conditi…

1852 CE

#6180

Rigidity of the soft parts – delivery effected by incision in the perineum.

First episiotomy in America, 2 December 1851.

2013 CE

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

1934 CE

#6229

Roentgen visualization of the placenta.

Direct radiography of the placenta. "Clilan (C.B.) Powell, longtime owner of the Amsterdam News, was born in 1894 to former Virginia slaves. Very little is known about his childhood. He received his medical degree in …