HODGE, Hugh Lenox (1796 – 1873)
1796 – 1873
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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.
1864 CE
#6185
The principles and practice of obstetrics.
Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completi…