Facets

1900 CE

#6111

Round-ligament ventrosuspension of the uterus: a new method.

Gilliam’s operation for prolapse.

1854 CE

#6261

Schilderungen neuer Beckenformen und ihres Verhaltens im Leben.

First description of pelvis spinosa.

1928 CE

#6222

Schwangerschaftsdiagnose aus dem Ham (durch Hormonnachweis).

The Aschheim-Zondek test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

c. 1475 CE

#13544

Secreta mulierum et virorum (cum commento).

This work on the physiology and procreative "secrets" of women was attributed to Albertus Magnus, but is now thought to have been written by one of his disciples. It was one of the most widely printed medical works in…

1930 CE

#12158

Seed, a novel of birth control.

1905 CE

#82.1

Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.

An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological pap…

1879 CE

#6278

Septicémie puerpérale.

Description of the streptococcus of puerperal sepsis.

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1968 CE

#8776

Short-title catalogue of books printed before 1851 in the library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 2nd ed.

1913 CE

#12744

Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.

1858 CE

#5605

Silver sutures in surgery.

Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037.

1902 CE

#6209

Sinfisiotomia classica e taglio lateralizzato del pube.

“Gigli’s operation”. Gigli substituted pubiotomy for symphysiotomy.

1942 CE

#532

Some aspects of early human development.

Report of the youngest normal implanted fertilized human ovum, fertilization age about 7 1/2 days. Hertig and Rock published a more detailed study in Contr. Embryol. Carneg. Instn. 1945, 31, 65-84.

1927 CE

#6009

Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.

Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.

1882 CE

#12200

Sorani gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina. Nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum codicem Parisiensem nunc recognitis a Valentino Rose.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1956 CE

#9367

Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

1933 CE

#12485

Sound motion pictures in obstetrics.

DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. In this paper he described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff member…

1954 CE

#7085

Steroids. LIV.Synthesis of 19-Nov-17α-ethynyltestosterone and 19-Nor-17α-methyltestosterone.

Synthesis of Norethisterone (or norethindrone) (or 19-nor-17α-ethynyltestosterone), the first highly active progestin analog that was effective when taken by mouth. This molecule became part of one of the first …

2019 CE

#11460

Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caearian-section birth.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Shao, Forster, Tsaliki....The authors used whole genome sequencing to characterize the microbiota of caesarian babies, demonstrating that caesarian babies were not colo…

1855 CE

#6042

Successful case of extirpation of the uterus.

First successful abdominal hysteroscopic myomectomy (for fibromyoma), 1 September 1853.

1892 CE

#6201

Sulla provocazione artificiale del parto e sul parto forzato col mezzo della dilatazione meccanica del collouterino.

Bossi originated the method of induction of premature labour by means of forced dilatation of the cervix.

1892 CE

#6093

Supravaginal hysterectomy without ligature of the cervix, in operation for uterine fibroids; a new method.

Baer’s operation.

1884 CE

#6079

Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.

Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.

1897 CE

#6105

Sur un nouveau procédé d’hystérectomie abdominale totale; la section médiane de l’utérus.

1869 CE

#6059

Surgery of the cervix in connection with the treatment of certain uterine diseases.

Surgical repair of lacerations of the cervix.

1717 CE

#10530

Syphilis: A practical dissertation on the venereal disease. In which, after a short account of its nature and original; the diagnostick and prognostick signs, with the best ways of curing the several degrees of that distemper, together with some historical observations relating to the same, are candidly and without reserve, communicated. In two parts.

The first work published in English to include the word syphilis, and also the first English work to include the word condom. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1857 CE

#6043

System of practical surgery. 4th ed.

Fergusson’s vaginal speculum is described on p. 724.

1752 CE

#6018

Tabulae anatomicae quatuor uteri duplicis.

Atlas of bipartite and double uterus.

1894 CE

#6204

Taglio lateralizzato del pube, suoi vantaggi, sua technica.

Gigli’s saw, first used for pubiotomy. German translation, Zbl. Chir., 1894, 21, 409-11.

2007 CE

#12159

Textual contraception: Birth control and modern American fiction.

1841 CE

#10723

The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.

The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1975 CE

#6610.11

The anatomical works of George Stubbs.

Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).

1867 CE

#6862

The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.

1978 CE

#13757

The birth control movement and American society: From private vice to public virtue.

A history of contraception in the United States.

1917 CE–1940 CE

#7106

The Birth Control Review.

Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…

1859 CE

#7720

The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married: on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth.

Possibly the most enlightened, and detailed book on sex, reproduction, and contraception published during this period; illustrated in color. In addition to outlining the era's five most reliable methods of contracepti…

1540 CE

#6139

The byrth of mankynde.

The first English treatise on midwifery, translated by Richard Jonas from the 1532 Latin translation by Roesslin the Younger (De partu hominis) of Roesslin's work (1513). The 1540 English edition was illustrated with …

1882 CE

#6283

The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.

1990 CE

#13391

The condom industry in the United States.

1842 CE–1843 CE

#6274

The contagiousness of puerperal fever.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first to establish the contagious nature of puerperal fever. His essay on the subject took a strong line against the opinions then prevailing, stirring up violent opposition among the obs…

1757 CE

#6156.4

The demonstrations of a pregnant uterus of a woman at her full term.

Atlas of six superb life-size mezzotint plates after paintings by Jan van Rymsdyk. A separate 16-page text was published in octavo.

1872 CE

#13171

The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1949 CE

#6310

The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.

Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.

1941 CE

#6135

The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.

The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…

1953 CE

#1931.2

The effects of progesterone and related compounds on ovulation and early development in the rabbit.

First practical demonstration of an oral contraceptive.

2005 CE

#12556

The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.

Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…

1939 CE

#6304

The evolution of obstetric analgesia.

1929 CE

#7186

The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.

The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1786 CE

#11534

The first American edition, An abridgement of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables.

An abridgement of Smellie's obstetrical writings, with plates engraved by the editor and publisher, John Norman, was the first medical book with engraved illustrations published in North America, and also the first bo…

1904 CE

#6117

The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.

Baldwin’s operation.