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20 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615]

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1938 CE

#4962.1

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

PENROSE, Lionel Sharples (1898 – 1972)

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

2002 CE

#11032

Abortion in the ancient world.

KAPPARIS, Konstantinos A.

1533 CE–1534 CE

#6974

Aetii Amideni quem alii Antiochenum vocant medici clarissimi libri XVI. tomos divisi : quorum primus & ultimus Ioan. Baptista Montano Veronensi medico, secundus Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi, & ipso medicinae professore, interpretibus latinitate donati sunt. In quo opere cuncta quae ad curandi artem pertinent congesta sunt, ex omnibus qui usq[ue] ad eius tempora scripserant, diligentissime excerpta. Additus est index in omneis tomos copiosissimus. 3 vols.

AETIUS OF AMIDA [ἈΈΤΙΟΣ ἈΜΙΔΗΝΌΣ; AETIUS AMIDENUS; AËTIUS] (450 – 550)
CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)
CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558) MONTANUS, Johannes Baptista [Giovanni Battista Monte] (1498 – 1551)

J. B. Montanus and Janus Cornarius prepared the first edition of Aetius's collected works in Latin translation. That edition was the first to include Aetius's writings on obstetrics, which epitomized all previous know…

2015 CE

#12201

An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).

MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – ) BOLTON, Lesley Annette

This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in E…

2000 CE

#12142

Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.

STOL, Marten (1940 – ) WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )

2000 CE

#8314

Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.

STOL, Marten (1940 – ) WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )

1838 CE

#6008

De arte obstetricia morbisque mulierum quae supersunt. Ex apographo Friderici Reinholdi Dietz, nuper fato perfuncti primum edita.

SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150) DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold (1805 – 1836)

Greek editio princeps of Soranus, based on manuscripts Dietz discovered in Paris and Rome, and published after the early death of the editor. Soranus was the leading authority on the gynecology and obstetrics of antiq…

1897 CE

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#6267

Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.

JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)

The earliest known description of puerperal fever.

2008 CE

#10635

Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) BOURBON, Florence

A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.

2017 CE

#11038

Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) BOURBON, Florence

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…

1983 CE

#10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

BECKMAN, Gary Michael (1948 – )

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…

1985 CE

#8123

Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.

CARRICK, Paul (1946 – )

1566 CE

#6136

Moschionos Peri gynaikeion pathon, id est…De morbis muliebribus liber unus; cum CONARDI GESNERI… scholiis & emendationibus nun primum editus opera ac studio CASPARI WOLPHII.

GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565) WOLFF, Caspar [WOLF] (1525 – 1601) MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – )

The earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of Soranus, the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity. Muscio was a pupil of Soranus. His book, the earliest copy of which is a manuscript dating …

1927 CE

#6009

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

SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150) ILBERG, Johannes (1860 – 1930)

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.

SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150)
ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)
ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)

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.

TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002) EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965) SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150) GUTTMACHER, Allan Frank (1898 – 1974) EASTMAN, Nicholson Joseph (1895 – 1973)

1901 CE

#6287

The history of ancient gynaecology.

MCKAY, William John Stewart (1866 – 1948)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#7011

The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.

KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS

GRIFFITH, Francis Llewellyn (1862 – 1934)

The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم

1955 CE

#8391

The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.

GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)

A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…