Entry Nos. 6000–6099

1861 CE

#6049

Amputation of the cervix uteri.

Sims’s method for amputating the cervix.

1862 CE

#6050

On vaginismus.

1863 CE

#6051

De l’ovariotomie.

The introduction of ovariotomy into France was in part due to Koeberlé. He made great advances in gynecological operative technique.

1863 CE

#6052

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

1865 CE

#6053

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

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.

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.

1865 CE

#6056

Diseases of the ovaries.

Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858. The title page to this work states that a second volume would be published. By the time Wells issued the intended…

1866 CE

#6057

Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.

A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…

1868 CE

#6058

Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.

A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.

1869 CE

#6059

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

Surgical repair of lacerations of the cervix.

1868 CE

#6060

A practical treatise on diseases of women.

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

1870 CE

#6061

Vaginal ovariotomy.

First vaginal ovariotomy.

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 …

1872 CE

#6063

Chronic cystitis in the female, and mode of treatment.

Vaginal cystotomy for chronic cystitis.

1872 CE

#6064

Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.

Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.

1872 CE

#6065

Cases of intermenstrual or intermediate dysmenorrhoea.

First report of cases of Mittelschmerz.

1876 CE

#6066

Zur Enucleation der intraparietalen Myome des Corpus uteri.

1877 CE

#6067

Ueber die Exstirpation normaler und nicht zu umfänglichen Tumoren degenerirter Eierstöcke.

Hegar developed Battey’s operation (No. 6062) and employed it for the treatment of various ovarian conditions.

1877 CE

#6068

Noveau procédé pour la guérison du prolapsus utérin.

Le Fort’s operation for prolapse.

1877 CE

#6069

Anatomische Bedeutung der Erosionen am Scheidentheil.

1878 CE

#6070

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

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.

1879 CE

#6072

Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses.

First total hysterectomy by the vaginal route.

1881 CE

#6073

Ueber die Enukleation subperitonealer Fibrome der Gebärmutter durch das Scheidengewölbe; vaginale Myoniotomie.

The operation of enucleation of subperitoneal uterine fibroids by the vaginal route was introduced by Czerny. In the second paper the words “Fibromyome” and “Myomotomie” replace “Fibrome&…

1881 CE

#6074

Ueber die theilweise und vollständige Ausschneidung der carcinomatösen Gebärmutter.

1881 CE

#6075

A case of removal of the uterine appendages.

Oöphorectomy, February 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).

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.

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.

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.

1884 CE

#6080

Ueber die Enucleation interstitieller Myome.

1884 CE

#6081

General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.

Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.

1885 CE

#6082

Ueber Kraurosis vulvae, eine wenig beachtete Form von Hautatrophie am pudendum muliebre.

Although not the first to describe kraurosis vulvae, Breisky left an important account, and the condition became known as “Breisky’s disease”.

1886 CE

#6083

Ueber ventrale Operation bei Prolapsus und Retroversio uteri.

First account of Olshausen’s operation for retroversion of the uterus.

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.

1887 CE

#6085

The gradual preparatory treatment of the complications of urinary and faecal fistulae in women.

Pyelitis complicating vesical and fecal fistulae in women was successfully treated by Bozeman.

1887 CE

#6086

Hysterorrhaphy.

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.

1889 CE

#6088

Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.

1890 CE

#6089

Ueber die Pseudomucine der cystischen Ovariengeschwülste.

1890 CE

#6090

Pus in the pelvis and how to deal with it.

1891 CE

#6092

Contributions to the histogenesis of the papillary cystoma of the ovary.

1892 CE

#6093

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

Baer’s operation.

1893 CE

#6094

Ueber Sarcoma uteri deciduo-cellulare und andere deciduale Geschwülste.

A detailed classification of “deciduomata”, chorionic neoplasms, and a review of the literature.

1892 CE

#6095

Vaginal hysterectomy in bilateral peri-uterine suppuration.

Henrotin’s method of removing the uterus.

1895 CE

#6096

Conservative surgical treatment of para- and peri-uterine septic diseases.

1895 CE

#6097

Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form des Ovarial carcinoms.

Granulosa cell tumor first described.

1895 CE

#6098

Über Exstirpation der Vagina.

The operation of excision of the vagina was introduced by Olshausen.

1895 CE

#6099

Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.

Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.