Facets

1900 CE

#6110

Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.

Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a…

2006 CE

#8366

Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.

"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…

1913 CE

#12488

The principles and practice of obstetrics.

Digital facsimile of the 1914 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.

1989 CE

#7044

"A dirty, filthy book." The writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control and an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, by S. Chandrasekhar. With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant.

1861 CE–1862 CE

#13270

(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.

Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of …

1953 CE

#11203

A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

1889 CE

#6243

A case of Caesarean section for contracted pelvis.

Champney’s advocacy for the Sänger operation was a powerful factor in its adoption in Britain.

1764 CE

#6155

A case of extra-uterine foetus.

This description of an abdominal pregnancy, successfully operated on by Bard was “the first scientific paper on a surgical subject to come from the North American Colonies” (Earle). John Bard was the fathe…

1881 CE

#6075

A case of removal of the uterine appendages.

Oöphorectomy, February 1881.

1798 CE

#6236.1

A case of the caesarean operation performed, and the life of the woman preserved. IN: Medical records and researches selected from the papers of a private medical association, pp. 154-163.

This is apparently the first Caesarean section in England from which the mother recovered. It was performed on 27 November 1793. Barlow’s account is reproduced by Young (No. 6307), pp. 54-58. A note on Barlow is…

1938 CE

#4962.1

A clinical and genetic study of 1,280 cases of mental defect.

In this exhaustive study Penrose showed (p. 36) the significance of maternal age in the etiology of Down syndrome.

1918 CE

#3135

A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.

Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion.

1787 CE

#12163

A collection of engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species.

An idiosyncratic collection of rarely reproduced images with explanatory commentaries in English and French, concerning reproduction and obstetric complications in animals and humans. Topics include: The Funis of a nu…

1807 CE

#6163.1

A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.

First significant textbook on obstetrics written by an American. Bard gave an excellent description of the mechanism of labor, and of pre-eclampsia. Woodcut illustrations were engraved by American physician and illust…

1977 CE

#12484

A history of childbirth in America.

Expanded edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

1990 CE

#7533

A history of contraception from antiquity to the present day.

2011 CE

#7930

A history of endometriosis.

1998 CE

#8350

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

1998 CE

#11895

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…

2016 CE

#10419

A history of midwifery in the United States: The midwife said fear not.

1990 CE

#7883

A midwife's tale. The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812.

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.

1882 CE

#6077

A new method of treating inveterate and troublesome displacements of the uterus.

Alexander’s suspension operation for retroversion of the uterus, first performed by him in 1881.

1882 CE

#6076

A new operation for uterine displacements.

Adams devised an operation for retroversion of the uterus, similar to that performed by Alexander (No. 6077).

1899 CE

#2082

A note on the influence of maternal inebriety on the offspring.

Fetal alcohol syndrome – first serious study.

1922 CE

#6221.1

A pathognomonic sign of intra-uterine death.

“Spalding’s sign” of fetal death.

1868 CE

#6060

A practical treatise on diseases of women.

The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.

1845 CE

#6036

A practical treatise on inflammation, ulceration, and induration of the neck of the uterus.

Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumors.

1939 CE

#14053

A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.

The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…

1934 CE

#6226

A rapid test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

The Xenopus toad test for the diagnosis of pregnancy; this preliminary note followed Hogben’s demonstration that Xenopus responds by ovulation to the gonadotrophic hormone (Trans. roy. Soc. S. Africa, 1930, Ser.…

1952 CE

#6235

A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.

1901 CE

#6116

A satisfactory operation for certain cases of retroversion of the uterus.

“Baldy–Webster operation”. Webster’s method of treating retrodisplacement of the uterus was later modified by J. M. Baldy, Amer. J. Obstet. Dis. Wom., 1902, 45, 650-54, and N.Y. med. J., 1903, …

1754 CE

#6154.1

A sett [sic] of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery…

The celebrated atlas for No. 6154, which is a complete work in itself. The 39 superb engravings include 26 after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk, which are preserved in the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgo…

1964 CE

#9535

A short history of midwifery.

Supplemented reprint of Cutter's "Historical sketch of the development of midwifery and gynecology," Obstetrics and Gynecology, edited by Arthur H. Curtis, I, 4-194 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1933).

1931 CE

#6224

A simple, rapid procedure for the laboratory diagnosis of early pregnancies.

Friedman test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

1762 CE

#6254

A singular case of the separation of the ossa pubis.

A case of osteomalacic pelvis was reported to Hunter by a country practitioner.

1903 CE

#10633

A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860.

First published in Dohrn's Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit, zugleich als dritter Band des Versuchs einer Geschichte der Geburtshülfe, von Eduard von Siebold, Erste Abtheilung (Tübingen, 1903) 19…

1955 CE

#9103

A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.

1884 CE

#6078

A study of the etiology of perineal laceration, with a new method for its proper repair.

First description of Emmet’s technique for perineorrhaphy.

1851 CE

#6038

A table of all the known operations of ovariotomy. From 1701-1851.

Atlee is said to have performed ovariotomy 387 times; with his brother John he firmly established the operation in the U.S.A.

1742 CE

#6151

A treatise of midwifry.

The teaching of Ould did much towards the advancement of midwifery in the British Isles. His Treatise is the first text-book of obstetrics of any importance in English.

1826 CE

#6026.1

A treatise on the diseases of females.

First American textbook on gynecology.

1795 CE

#6272

A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen.

Gordon was the first to advance as a definite hypothesis the contagious nature of puerperal fever, thus preceding Holmes and Semmelweis by half a century. He also advocated the disinfection of the clothes of the docto…

1773 CE

#6270

A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births. illustrated with cases.

White was the first to state clearly in a text on midwifery the necessity of absolute cleanliness in the lying-in chamber, the isolation of infected patients, and adequate ventilation. He instituted the principle of u…

1752 CE

#6154

A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery.

Smellie contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual. In his Treatise he described more accurately than any previous writer the mechanism of parturition, stressing the importance of…

2011 CE

#11052

A woman's disease: A history of cervical cancer.

1791 CE

#6161

Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.

This work was edited by order of Catherine II of Russia, to whom von Mohrenheim was accoucheur. Its importance lies mainly in its splendid engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie (see No. 6154.1). It include…

1791 CE–1806 CE

#6160

Abhandlungen und Versuche geburtshilflichen Inhalts. 2 vols.

Böer, a pioneer of “natural childbirth”, was the founder of the Viennese school of obstetrics.

1886 CE

#6084

Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.

Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.

2020 CE

#13537

Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.

1978 CE

#7999

Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.