Facets

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.

1851 CE

#6259

Das enge Becken: nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen.

First important work dealing with pelvic deformities since the time of van Deventer. It is a pioneer work in the literature dealing with pelvic architecture; Michaelis was one of the first to differentiate between the…

1907 CE

#6118

Das Oophoroma folliculare.

“Brenner tumor”, earlier described by Orthmann (No. 6109). See the historical note in Cancer, 1956, 9, 217.

1892 CE

#6279

Das Scheidensekret und seine Bedeutung für das Puerperalfieber.

Döderlein's study of the vaginal secretion in relation to puerperal fever includes the first description of “Döderlein’s bacillus” (Lactobacillus). Döderlein introduced the concept of …

1839 CE

#6257

Das schräg verengte Becken nebst einem Anhange über die wichtigsten Fehler des weiblichen Beckens überhaupt.

First description of the obliquely contracted pelvis, or “Naegele pelvis”. Because of its rarity and the difficulty of recognizing it clinically in living subjects, the obliquely contracted pelvis, with it…

1853 CE

#6260

Das schräg-ovale Becken.

Litzmann (see also No. 6263) described in this work the coxalgic, scoliotic and kyphoscoliotic forms of pelvis.

1892 CE

#6202

Das tuberöse subchoriale Hämatom der Decidua. Eine typische Form der Molenschwangerschaft.

Tuberous (“Breus”) mole first described.

1825 CE

#6256

Das weibliche Becken.

1838 CE

#6008

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

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…

1587 CE

#7337

De humano foetu liber tertio editus, ac recognitus. Eiusdem anatomicarum observationum liber: ac De tumoribus secundum locos affectos liber nunc primum editi.

First edition of Aranzi's Anatomicarum observationum published with the third edition of De humano foetu. In the Anatomicarum observationum Aranzi pointed out that the eye muscles arise from the margin of the optic ca…

1564 CE

#464

De humano foetu.

According to Charles Singer, Aranzi gave the first adequate printed account of the gravid uterus, and finally dispelled the idea of a human cotyledonous placenta. He gave by far the best description of fetal anatomy u…

1888 CE

#6198

De l’accouchement provoqué; dilatation du canal génital (col de l’utérus, vagin et vulve) à l’aide de ballons introduits dans la cavité utérine pendant la grossesse.

The “Champetier de Ribes bag”.

1894 CE

#5639

De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.

Tarnier was the first to adopt Listerism in obstetrics. In the discussion following a paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., London, 1881, 4, 390-391, he showed that he was the first to employ carbolic acid solution in obs…

1609 CE

#6145.1

De l’heureux accouchement des femmes.

Actual origin of the so–called “Mauriceau” manoeuvre, usually credited to Mauriceau (No. 6147). Guillemeau was not only responsible for this technique for delivery of the after coming head so importa…

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.

1821 CE

#10546

De la ménopause, ou de l'age critique des femmes; Traité dans lequel sont exposés du description anatomique et physiologique de l'utérus à la ménopause, les changemens que cette époque opère tant sur le physique que sur le moral de la femme, les moyens hygiéniques qui doivent être alors employés, enfin les maladies qui surviennent ordinairement à l'âge critique. Seconde edition.

In this work, a revised second edition of Gardanne's Avis aux femmes qui entrent dans l'age critique (1816), Gardanne coined the term menopause. Digital facsimile of the 1816 edition from the Internet Archive at this …

1600 CE

#6144.1

De natura partus octomestris adversus vulgatam opinionem libri decem ... In quo absolutissima de humani partus natura cognitio traditur; nimirum de conceptione, articulatione, maturitate, de partuum numero, pariendique terminis ac temporibus; utrum ante septimum mensem, ac post decimum, undecimique initium partus naturaliter edi possit. De septimestri, nonomestri, decimestri, undecimestrique partu, deque veris horum omnium causis plenissime Aristotele duce disputatur ... Item ejusdem auctoris compendiosa de eodem partu disceptatio ...

An encyclopedic work on ancient and contemporary medical, scientific and juridical opinion on premature birth and the period of gestation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1655 CE

#6146.1

De nutritione foetus in utero paradoxa.

Page 245 contains a report of successful symphysiotomy.

1860 CE

#6183

De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.

Credé’s method of removing the placenta by external manual expression. It is first mentioned in his Klinische Vorträge über Geburtshilfe, Berlin, 1854, 599-603.

1532 CE

#12764

De partu hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt.

Eucharius Rösslin the Younger translated his father's Der schwangeren Frauwen und Hebammen Rosengarten (1513) into Latin, from which it is was translated into French, Dutch, and English, and was frequently reprin…

1854 CE

#6262

De spondylolisthesi gravissimae pelvangustiae causa nuper detecta.

An important study of the spondylolisthetic pelvis, which Kilian called “pelvis obtecta”.

1603 CE

#11873

De universa mulierum medicina, novo et antehac a nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum. Et studiosis omnibus utile, medicis vero pernecessarium. Pars prima theorica. Quatuor comprehensa libris, in quibus cuncta, quae ad mulieribus naturam, anatomen, semen, menstruum,… Pars secunda, sive praxis …. 2 parts in 1.

The first treatise on gynecology written by a Portuguese author, the work was written in two parts: Part one, about theory, was titled De natura mulierum (On female nature) and was divided into four books: (1) Anatomy…

1643 CE

#6014

De virginum et mulierum morbis liber.

1897 CE

#14308

De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.

Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …

2009 CE

#12021

Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.

1895 CE

#6100

Deciduoma malignum.

First case of choriocarcinoma reported in North America.

1876 CE

#6240

Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo.

Caesarean section with excision of the uterus and adnexa (“Porro’s operation”).

1961 CE

#6235.1

Demonstration of tissue interfaces within the body by ultrasonic echo sounding.

Biparietal fetal cephalometry by ultrasound.

1991 CE

#10983

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The first 100 years. Edited by John A.Rock, Timothy R.B. Johnson, J. Donald Woodruff.

1752 CE

#6357.51

Der Arzney Doctor, Helvetisch-Vernünftige Wehe-Mutter, oder Gründlicher Unterricht, wie mit den Schwangern, Gebährenden, Kindbetterinnen und neugebohrnen Kindern umzugehen, selbige gebührend zu verpflegen, und in allerhand ihnen zustossenden Kranckheiten zu begegnen seye: Samt einer ausführlichen Beschreibung von Fortpflanzung des menschlichen Geschlechts, und aller weiblichen Leibes-Theilen, auch der Empfängniß, Formir- und Bildung der Frucht im Mutterleibe. Nebst des Verfassers curiösen Anmerckungen, selbst-bewährten Handgriffen, Curen und dazu dienlichen Arzney-Mitteln. Dem löblichen Frauenzimmer, geschwohrnen Weibern, und andern ehrbaren Frauen zu Nutz, mit besonderm Fleisse in fünf Abschnitte eingetheilt. Mit vielen Kupfern und dreyen Registern.

Fatio was probably the first surgeon to study and treat surgical conditions of children in a systematic fashion. His book, first published over 60 years after his death, is divided into five parts: 1) the anatomy of w…

1909 CE

#6249

Der extraperitoneale Kaiserschnitt. Seine Geschichte, seine Technik und seine Indikationen.

Latzko’s extraperitoneal lower-segment Caesarean operation. Preliminary report in the same journal, 1908, 21, 737.

1858 CE

#6045

Der Gebärmutterkrebs.

In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.

1882 CE

#6242

Der Kaiserschnitt bei Uterusfibromen nebst vergleichender Methodik der Sectio Caesarea und der Porro-Operation.

“Sänger’s operation” – the so-called “classic Caesarean section”. A preliminary note is in Arch. Gynak., 1882, 19, 370.

1513 CE

#6138

Der Swangern Frauwen und Hebammen Rosegarten.

The earliest printed textbook for midwives. It underwent over 100 editions, being used as late as 1730. The first edition was published in Strassburg by Martin Flach in 1513. This was demonstrated most recently by Law…

1668 CE

#6147

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées.

The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair. It was to Mauriceau that Hugh Chamberlen…

1877 CE

#6192

Description de deux nouveaux forceps.

Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64

1573 CE

#534.51

Deux livres de chirurgie. I. De la generation de l’homme… II. Des monstres tant terrestres que marins avec leurs portraits.

Many reports of real malformations are intermixed with mythical accounts. English translations, 1634, and later. Recent English translation, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982. Digital facsimile of the 1573 ed…

2001 CE

#13389

Devices and desires: A history of contraceptives in America.

1895 CE

#6205

Diagnose der frühesten Schwangerschaftsperiode.

Hegar’s sign – softening of the lower segment of the uterus, an early diagnostic sign of pregnancy. It was first described by his assistant, C. Reinl, in Frag. med. Wscbr., 1884, 9, 253-54.

1943 CE

#13597

Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.

"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …

1861 CE

#6277

Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers.

Semmelweis, who earlier had shown puerperal fever to be a septicemia, strove to improve conditions in the lying-in wards of Vienna and Budapest. Misunderstood and maligned by many, he eventually published this book in…

1933 CE

#1199

Die Behandlung der Amenorrhoë mit hohen Dosen der Ovarialhormone.

First use of estrogenic hormone for the treatment of amenorrhea in ovariectomized women, with production of the typical cyclical endometrial changes.

1690 CE

#6149

Die Chur-Brandenburgische Hoff-Wehe-Mutter.

With Mauriceau, Justine Siegemundin was responsible for introducing the practice of puncturing the amniotic sac to arrest hemorrhage in placenta praevia. She was midwife to the Court of the Elector of Brandenburg, and…

1889 CE

#6200

Die Conjugata eines engen Beckens ist keine konstante Grosse, sondem lässt sich durch die Körperhaltung der Trägerin verändem.

Description of the “Walcher position”.

1908 CE

#6120

Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.

Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.

1908 CE

#6248

Die extraperitoneale Uterusschnitt.

Sellheim’s operation. For his three subsequent modifications, see the same journal, 319-31, 641-51, and Mschr. Geburtsh. Gynäk., 1911, 34, 34-45.

1861 CE

#6263

Die Formen des Beckens, insbesondere des engen weiblichen Beckens.

Litzmann devised a clinical classification of pelves which was for many years generally used, and he described various deformities of the female pelvis.

1838 CE

#6175

Die geburtshülfiche Auscultation

Pioneering work on obstetric auscultation, including the sounds of the foetal heart. English translation by C. West, London, 1839.

1931 CE

#13561

Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus.

Halberlandt, professor of physiology at Innsbruck, invented the first hormonal contraceptive, Infecundin, using corpus luteum extracts from females rich in the hormone progesterone. His initial report on the contracep…

1908 CE

#6214

Die künstliche Blutleere der unteren Körperhälfte.

Abdominal ligature in prevention of post-partum haemorrhage.