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Opusculum aegritudinum puerorum.Leuven (Louvain), Belgium: Johann Veldener, 1486 – 1487.A work on disorders of pregnant women as well as on pediatrics. It describes 52 childhood diseases, providing the name, the causes, symptoms, prognosis and treatment of each, drawing on Greek authors, Arabs (especially Avicenna) and recent authors. Facsimile reprint in Sudhoff (No. 6355). Curiously almost all recorded copies lack the first 77 leaves, which apparently were not issued. In the 1980s six of the missing leaves were discovered as endpapers. See D.E. Rhodes, "A volume from the monastery library of Hayles," Trans. Camb. Bibl. Soc., 8 (1985), 598-603 & 9 (1987) pp. 205-207. ISTC No. ir00241000. English translation in Ruhrah, No. 6354. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Büchlein der schwangeren Frauen.Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, about 1495] Also recorded as [Johann Schobsser], and [Anton Sorg], and [Ulm: Johann Zainer] , 1495.The first obstetrical book printed in the vernacular. Facsimile edition, Munich, 1910. Ortoloff also wrote the first German pharmacopoeia. See No. 1794. ISTC No. io00113000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Enneas muliebris.Ferrara: Lorenzo Rossi, 1502 – 1503.This work was prepared for and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia by her physician, Bonaccioli, who guided her through 14 pregnancies, the last of which was fatal to both mother and child. The first three chapters concern female genital anatomy, sexual intercourse, fertilization, formation of the embryo, development of the fetus (and infusion of the soul). The final six chapters concern signs of pregnancy, its difficulties and their cures, causes of abortion, vaginal discharge, gestation, the mechanics of birth, midwifery, lactation, care of the newborn, dentition, etc. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS, PEDIATRICS › Neonatology, SEXUALITY / Sexology |
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Der Swangern Frauwen und Hebammen Rosegarten.Strassburg, Austria: Martin Flach, 1513.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 Lawrence I. Longo in his entry on Rösslin's work in Haskell Norman's One hundred books famous in medicine (1995) No. 13. Based upon the research of Benzing, Longo also described and illustrated two undated issues of Rösslin's work which previously had been assigned to 1513. Because it was thought for a long time that three issues appeared the same year, there was some confusion among bibliographers as to which, if any, could be shown to be first. However, Benzing convincingly assigned one of the undated issues to circa 1515 and the other to circa 1518. Georg Klein, Eucharius Rösslin's 'Rosengarten' gedruckt im Jahre 1513 reprinted in facsimile (Munich, 1910) the undated edition, now assigned to circa 1515 issued in Hagenau by Heinrich Gran. This was titled Der Swangern frawen und hebammē rosengartē. Klein also issued "Zur Bio-und Bibliographie Rösslins und seines 'Rosengartens', Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin 3 (1910). The third variant, now assigned to 1518, was issued in Cologne by Arnt von Aich, but with the title Der swangeren Frawen und Hebammen Rosegarten.
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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.Basel: In Officicina Frobeniana, 1533 – 1534.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 knowledge of the subject. J. V. Ricci prepared an annotated translation of Aetius's obstetrical writings from the improved Latin edition of Basel, 1542, and published it in Philadelphia, 1950. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, BYZANTINE MEDICINE, Collected Works: Opera Omnia, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The byrth of mankynde.London: T. R., 1540.The first English treatise on midwifery, translated by Richard Jonas from the 1532 Latin translation by Roesslin the Younger (De partu hominis) of Roesslin's work (1513). The 1540 English edition was illustrated with two sheets, printed on both sides, of crudely engraved "birth fygures" copied from Roesslin's woodcuts. These also appear, with minor changes "Stoole" for "Stwle") in the second edition of 1545. The second edition was edited by the physician, Thomas Raynalde, who intended to augment it with a section on anatomy and illustrations of the female reproductive organs, but his intentions were not fully realized. Copies of the 1545 edition contain two engraved representations of the male trunk, possibly engraved on a one plate, printed on a single sheet, folded and stitched in the quire. They are engraved on a different plate, but correspond with the first and second figures on plate 30 of Germinus (1545), except that fig. 1 is reversed. Hind, Engraving in England pp. 44, 53-55. Hook & Norman, The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine (1991) No. 1844, with more extensive discussion of the 1545 edition. These engravings, and those in Geminus's anatomy, are the earliest engravings published in England. Subjects: Illustration, Biomedical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Briefve collection de l'administration anatomique: avec la manière de conjoindre les os: et d’extraire les enfans tant mors que vivans du ventre de la mere, lors que nature de soy ne peult venir a son effect.Paris: G. Cavellat, 1549.Paré’s revival of podalic version repopularized the procedure, which had been described by Soranus of Ephesus (No. 6008). English translation in The Workes of Ambroise Parey [sic], London, 1634. Digital facsimile of the 1550 edition from BnF Gallica at this liink. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Ordnung eines erbarn Raths der Statt Regenspurg, die Hebammen betreffende.Regensburg: H. Kohl, 1550.The earliest public document in the vernacular containing legislation governing midwives. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Legislation, Biomedical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle von den Empfengknussen und Geburten der Menschen…Zürich: apud Frosch[overum], 1554.An improved version of Rösslin’s Swangern frawen. This contains the first true anatomical pictures in an obstetrics book. Rueff described smooth-edged forceps for delivery of a live baby, preceding Chamberlen, and a toothed forceps for extraction of the dead fetus. He developed a method of cephalic version combining internal and external manipulation. A Latin translation of his book, De conceptu et generatione hominis, was published by Froschauer in the same year. English translation, London, 1637. Subjects: ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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De humano foetu.Bologna: Johannes Rubrius, 1564.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 up to that time, especially examining the fetal heart, where he saw the ductus arteriosus and foramen ovale (and described their occlusion after birth). Aranzi believed the maternal and fetal circulations to be separate. He also described the ductus venosus of the fetus, and the corpora Arantii in the heart valves. Incidentally, he was the first to record a pelvic deformity. Digital facsimile of the Leiden, 1564 edition from Google Books at this link. Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHYSIOLOGY › Fetal Physiology |
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Gynaeciorum, hoc est, de mulierum turn aliis, tum gravidarum, parientium et puerperarum affectibus et morbis, libri veterum ac recentiorum aliquot, partim nunc primum editi, partim multo quam antea castigatiores.Basel: Thomas Guarinus, 1566.The first encyclopedia of gynecology and obstetrics, originally conceived by Conrad Gesner, who collected material for the purpose. Wolff, Gesner’s literary executor, added material and published the collection one year after Gesner’s death. It contains the first edition of Moschion (No. 6136). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: Encyclopedias, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Moschionos Peri gynaikeion pathon, id est…De morbis muliebribus liber unus; cum CONARDI GESNERI… scholiis & emendationibus nun primum editus opera ac studio CASPARI WOLPHII.Basel: Thomas Guarinus, 1566.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 from circa 900 CE preserved in the Royal Library of Brussels (Brussels MS 3714), is arranged in catechism form; it was first published as above and in Caspar Wolff’s Gynaeciorum, 1566 (No. 6011). A Greek–Latin bilingual text was edited by F. O Dewez, Vienna, 1793. Until the 19th century Moschion was lauded as the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity while Soranus’s works remained hidden. See V. Rose, Sorani Gynaeciorum vetus translatio latina, Leipzig, 1882, No. 12200. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Late Antiquity, BYZANTINE MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Opera medicinalia.Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1570.Opera medicinalia was the first medical book printed in the Western Hemisphere, and its botanical images were the first illustrations of plants printed in the Western Hemisphere. Of the original edition only two copies are known, of which the only complete copy is at the La Biblioteca José María Lafragua at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. In 1862 American bookseller and bibliographer Henry Stevens purchased an incomplete copy at an auction sale of the library of collector/dealer/book thief Guglielmo Libri in London. This he resold to the American collector James Lennox. The Lennox copy is preserved in the New York Public Library. In 1970 London antiquarian booksellers Dawsons of Pall issued a facsimile of the complete Universidad de Puebla copy with a companion volume of commentary by Francisco Guerra. "Opera Medicinalia consists of a set of treatises on various medical topics including a long discourse on a disease called “tabardete,” which may have been typhus, citing works on the topic by earlier Arab and Greek physicians. Typhus is a disease spread by lice, and was common on board ships crossing the Atlantic during the colonial period. Also included in the book is a long treatise in the form of a dialog on bloodletting accompanied by a simplistic woodcut of the venous system inspired by Andreas Vesalius’ Epistle [on Venesection], printed in Basel in 1539. Bravo also included a long discussion of the sarsaparilla plant (Smilax aspera), native to North America, including Mexico, whose roots were thought to cure a number of ailments. The book includes two woodcut illustrations of the plant by Juan Ortiz which were based upon illustrations from Pietro Mattioli’s Commentaries on Dioscorides (Commentarii… De Materia Medica) published in Venice in 1554. The fact that Bravo’s book was written in Latin, shows that it was aimed at a scholarly audience rather than the general public" (https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/10/29/the-first-medical-book-printed-in-the-new-world/, accessed 02-2017). Digital facsimile of the 1570 edition from primeroslibros.org at this link. Portions of the book have been translated into Spanish as: BRAVO, Francisco, (ca 1525-1595) Observations on the raicilla, which in the indigenous language they call zarzaparrilla / Francisco Bravo Puebla; Preliminary study, translation into Spanish and notes by José Gaspar Rodolfo Cortés Riveroll; Paleography and biographies of Rodolfo Cortés Madrazo. Puebla, México: Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, Faculty of Medicine, 2011, 175 p., ISBN 978-607-487-326-9 [ View the full text of this work in PDF format ] BRAVO, Francisco, (ca 1525-1595) On venosection in pleuritis and in general of other inflammations of the body / Francisco Bravo Puebla; Preliminary study, translation into Castilian and notes of Jose Gaspar Rodolfo Cortés Riveroll. Puebla, Mexico: Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, Faculty of Medicine, Dirección de Fomento Editorial, 2008, 206 p., ISBN 978-968-9391-408 [ View full text of this work in PDF format ]
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Lice-Borne Diseases › Typhus, Latin American Medicine, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHARMACOLOGY, THERAPEUTICS › Bloodletting |
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Deux livres de chirurgie. I. De la generation de l’homme… II. Des monstres tant terrestres que marins avec leurs portraits.Paris: André Wechel, 1573.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 edition from BnF Gallica at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, SURGERY: General , TERATOLOGY |
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Reformation oder Ordnung für die Hebammen.Frankfurt: getruckt bey C. Egenolffs Erben, 1573.Legislation governing the practice of midwifery was introduced in the city of Frankfurt in 1573, Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link. Subjects: LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Legislation, Biomedical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.Paris: G. Buon, 1575.Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery (No. 2139), for his revival of podalic version (No. 6140), his re-introduction of the ligature and his invention of many new surgical instruments. He was the first to suggest that syphilis is a cause of aneurysm. He popularized the truss, introduced artificial limbs, and (in dentistry) reimplantation of the teeth. See also No. 59. This folio is the first edition of his collected works, reprinting texts that Paré previously published separately in octavo format. The fifth and most complete edition of the Oeuvres, containing the first printing of Paré’s final revisions, was published in Paris, 1598. English translation (from the 1582 Latin translation of the second [1579] edition) by botanist and apothecary Thomas Johnson, London, 1634. Digital facsimile of the 1575 edition from BnF Gallica at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1649 second edition in English from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link. Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, DENTISTRY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › Renaissance, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, SURGERY: General , SURGERY: General › Notable Surgical Illustrations, SURGERY: General › Protheses |
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Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum affectibus commentarii Graecorum, Latinorum, barbarorum, iam olim & nunc recens editorum: in tres tomos digesti, et necessariis passim imaginibus illustrati. 4 vols.Basel: Thomas Guarinus, 1586 – 1588.A hugely enlarged version of No. 6011, with texts in Greek as well as Latin. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Google Books at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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De humano foetu liber tertio editus, ac recognitus. Eiusdem anatomicarum observationum liber: ac De tumoribus secundum locos affectos liber nunc primum editi.Venice: Jacobus Brechtanus, 1587.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 cavity, not from the dura mater as was thought previously; and he described the extensor indicis proprius, obturator externus, genioglossus, coracobrachialis, and tensor fascia latae. Most importantly, he provided the first description of the hippocampus in the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle, which he referred to as the hippocampal ventricle, and the inferior extension of the lateral ventricular choroid plexus. He called the elevation in the floor of the inferior horn the “sea horse/hippocampus” or “white silkworm/bombycinus” and observed that it extends rostrally as the fornix. Overall, his description of the ventricular system was a clear improvement on that of Vesalius, who had also described the inferior horn. (Clarke and O’Malley 719-21; Larry W. Swanson). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
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La commare o riccoglitrice.Venice: G. B. Ciotti, 1596.First Italian book on obstetrics. It is a work of importance for the study of the history of Caesarean section; in it Mercurio advocated the Caesarean operation in cases of contracted pelvis. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Caesarian Section |
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Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum tum communibus, turn gravidarum, parientum, et puerperarum affectibus et morbis, libri Graecorum, Arabum, Latinorum veterum et recentium quotquot extant, parti nunc primum editi, partim vero denuo recogniti, emendati, necessariis imaginibus exornati, & optimorum scriptorum autoritatibus illustrati.Strassburg, Austria: Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1597.Spach was the editor of this collection of gynecological writings. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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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 ...Urbino: apud Bartholomaeum, & Simonem Ragusios, 1600.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. Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes, et enfants nouveaux naiz.Paris: A. Saugrain, 1609.The first book on obstetrics published by a midwife. Louise Bourgeois was accoucheuse to the French court. She was one of the pioneers of scientific midwifery; her Observations was the vade mecum of contemporary midwives. She induced premature labor in patients with contracted pelvis, an idea probably derived from Paré. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1500 - 1799 |
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De l’heureux accouchement des femmes.Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1609.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 important before the forceps and Caesarian section, but he was also the first to employ podalic version in placenta praevia. English translation, London, 1612. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Exercitationes de generatione animalium.London: O. Pulleyn, 1651.Harvey was among the first to disbelieve the erroneous doctrine of the “preformation” of the fetus; he maintained that the organism derives from the ovum by the gradual building up and aggregation of its parts. The chapter on on labor (“De partu”) in this book is the first work on that subject to be written by an Englishman, and the first original work on obstetrics by an English author. This book also demonstrates Harvey’s intimate knowledge of the existing literature on the embryology. He corrected many of the errors of Fabricius. Harvey considered this to be the culminating work of his life, and more significant than De motu cordis. See The analysis of the Degeneratione animalium of William Harvey by A. W. Meyer, Stanford Univ. Press, 1936. First English translation, London, 1653. New translation, with introduction and notes by G. Whitteridge, Oxford, Blackwell, 1980.
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De nutritione foetus in utero paradoxa.Augsburg: G. Förster, 1655.Page 245 contains a report of successful symphysiotomy. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées.Paris: L'Auteur, 1668.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 attempted to sell the secret of his forceps; Chamberlen translated the Traité into English in 1672. This book established obstetrics as a science. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The midwives book: or the whole art of midwifery discovered.London: Miller, 1671.The first book written by an English midwife. Sharp was the most accomplished midwife of 17th-century England. Scholarly, extensively annotated edition edited by Jane Hobby, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1500 - 1799 |
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Aristoteles master-piece, or the secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof . . .London: J. How, 1684.The first sex manual in English, neither by Aristotle or a "masterpiece", provided its readers with practical advice on copulation, conception, pregnancy and birth.This anonymous, inexpensively printed work proved to be enormously popular: At least three editions were issued by J. How in 1684, and literally hundreds of editions and translations followed, right up to the early decades of the 20th century. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, SEXUALITY / Sexology |
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La pratique des accouchemens soutenue d’un grand nombre d’observations.Paris: G. Martin, 1685.Portal’s important treatise included his demonstration that version could be done with one foot. He also taught that face presentation usually ran a normal course. English translation, 1705. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Die Chur-Brandenburgische Hoff-Wehe-Mutter.Cölln an der Spree: U. Liebperten, 1690.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 the most celebrated of the German midwives of the 17th century. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1500 - 1799 |
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Manuale operatien, I. deel zijnde een neiuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouen.The Hague: The Author, 1701.This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the latter in complicating labor. The first edition contains a relatively unattractive frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by himself. Latin translation, Leiden, 1701. English translation, London, 1724. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Pelvis: Pelvic Anomalies |
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Traité complet des accouchemens.Paris: L. d’Houry, 1721.Mauquest de la Motte applied podalic version to head presentations. English translation, prepared at the suggestion of William Smellie, 1746. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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An essay on the improvement of midwifery.London: A. Bettsworth, 1733.Gives the first published account of the forceps, kept secret by the Chamberlen family for generations. Chapman was the second person in England to teach midwifery publicly. The first edition of his book was not illustrated. In the second edition of 1735 he included an illustration of the forceps. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Cases in midwifry. Revised by Edward Hody.London: B. Motte, 1734.Giffard was one of the first, after the Chamberlens, to use the forceps. His book contains, under case 14, the earliest published record of the use of the hitherto secret Chamberlen forceps, in 1726, together with illustrations of two variant types. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A treatise of midwifry.Dublin: O. Nelson & C. Conner, 1742.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. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Observations sur les causes et les accidens de plusieurs accouchemens laborieux.Paris: C. Osmont, 1747.Levret, who improved the obstetric forceps, was a famous teacher in Paris. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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An essay towards a complete new system of midwifery, theoretical and practical.London: J. Hodges, 1751.Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section. Laurence Steme satirized him as “Dr. Slop” in The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. This work includes illustrations by the painter George Stubbs. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, Illustration, Biomedical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Caesarian Section, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Puerperal Fever |
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A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery.London: D. Wilson, 1752.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 exact measurement of the pelvis. He was the first to lay down safe rules regarding the use of forceps, and personally introduced the steel-lock, the curved, and the double forceps. He invented the “Smellie manoeuvre” to deliver breech cases. His book was followed by two volumes of case reports, 1754 and 1764; it was re-published by the New Sydenham Society, edited with annotations by Alfred H. McClintock, 3 vols., 1876-78. It includes the first illustration of a rachitic pelvis. Digital facsimile of the 1876 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Biography of Smellie by R. W. Johnstone, Edinburgh, 1952. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, Illustration, Biomedical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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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.Basel: Johann Rudolph Imhof, 1752.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 woman and on generation; 2) the pregnant woman and her diseases; 3) on natural and complicated deliveries; 4) the pregnant woman, her diseases, food and drink; 5) the care of newborn children and their diseases. In the last part Fatio includes the earliest section on pediatric surgery in a medical book. He describes operations for hypospadias, hydrocolpos, imperforate anus and many more. Because he engaged in revolutionary political activity in the city of Basel Fatio was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in 1691. All of his manuscripts except the text of above work were burned by the authorities. See Rickham, The dawn of paediatric surgery: Johannes Fatio (1649-1691)-His life, his work and his horrible end, in No. 6357.9. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS, PEDIATRICS › Neonatology, Pediatric Surgery |
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L’art des accouchemens.Paris: Delaguette, 1753.Besides introducing a curved forceps (see No. 6152) Levret invented several other obstetric instruments and made fundamental observations on pelvic anomalies. His book covered the whole field of obstetrics and remained a standard work for many years. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A sett [sic] of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery…London: Printed in the year, 1754.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 Glasgow Library. The remainder were by Smellie, “assisted by a pupil called [Pieter] Camper”. Camper’s drawings are preserved in the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and in Leiden University. Camper’s illustrated MS of his studies with Smellie and of his third visit to England in 1785 is preserved in Amsterdam University. It was translated into English with notes, and published as Opuscula selecta Neerlandicorum de arte medica, 1939, 15. See J.L. Thornton, Jan van Rymsdyk: Medical artist of the eighteenth century (Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1982.) For the first American edition of the plates (in greatly reduced format) see No. 6154. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, Illustration, Biomedical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The demonstrations of a pregnant uterus of a woman at her full term.London: Printed for… the author, 1757.Atlas of six superb life-size mezzotint plates after paintings by Jan van Rymsdyk. A separate 16-page text was published in octavo. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Abregé de l'art des accouchements, dans lequel on donne les préceptes nécessaires pour le mettre heureusement en pratique, et auquel on a joint plusieurs observations intéressantes sur des cas singuliers.Paris: La veuve Delaguette, Imprimeur-libraire, 1759.Illustrated with some engraved plates printed in two colors, some in three colors, and some also hand-colored--an early example of color-printing in a medical book. After ten years as a midwife in Paris, Madame du Coudray was hired by King Louis XV to travel across France to better train rural midwives.There were political motivations for this; Louis wanted to boost a “declining” population, and more subjects also meant more capable soldiers. Unlike Queen Charlotte of England who chose William Hunter as the royal obstetrician, Louis appointed du Coudray, a woman, to train women. Madame du Coudray became the national midwife in 1759, earning 8,000 livres a year—equal to that of a decorated military general. Her book underwent numerous editions. Du Courray invented an obstetrical manikin, or obstretrical "machine," a cloth covered fetus qnd female pelvis and womb that she used to demonstrate complicated birthing technics. This was analogous to the "machine" also invented around the same time in Scotland by William Smellie. Digital facsimile of the 1777 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1500 - 1799 |
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Mémoire contre la légitimité des naissances prétendues tardives.Paris: P. G. Cavelier, 1764.An attempt to set the minimum and maximum time limits of duration of human pregnancy. Supplement published in 1764. Subjects: Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A case of extra-uterine foetus.Med. Obs. Soc. Physicians Lond., 2, 369-72, 1764.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 father of Samuel Bard. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Practical directions, shewing a method of preserving the perinaeum in birth, and delivering the placenta without violence.London: D. Wilson & G. Nicol, 1767.Harvie, Smellie’s successor, advocated external expression of the placenta instead of traction on the cord, anticipating Credé in this connection by almost a century (see No. 6183). Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic contributions to obstetrics and gynecology, 1935, pp.131-38. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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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.London: E. & C. Dilly, 1773.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 uterine drainage, placing his patients in a sitting position shortly after delivery using a special bed and chair. In this he preceded Fowler (No. 5623). White was also the first after Hippocrates to make any substantial contributions towards the solution of the etiology and management of puerperal fever. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Sepsis / Antisepsis, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Puerperal Fever, Ventilation, Health Aspects of |
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Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.Birmingham, England: John Baskerville, 1774.Hunter originally trained as Smellie’s assistant. Once he achieved brilliant professional and financial success he became a great collector of rare books and manuscripts, coins, paintings, minerals, shells, and antiquities. Reflecting Hunter’s interests in anatomical art and fine printing, this work contains 34 copper plates depicting the gravid uterus, life-size. It is William Hunter’s best work and one of the finest anatomical atlases ever produced, “anatomically exact and artistically perfect” (Choulant). Except for J. Dalby’s little book, Virtues of cinnabar and musk against the bite of a mad dog, 1762, Hunter's atlas is the only medical publication produced by the famous Baskerville Press. The letterpress is in both Latin and English. The plates were engraved by several artists from drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk, the original sepia drawings for which are preserved in the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow Library. In 1851 The Sydenham Society published a reprint of the atias. See J. L. Thornton’s Jan van Rymsdyk, medical artist of the eighteenth century, Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1982. Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases.London: J. Johnson, 1775.Rigby differentiated between premature separation of the normal placenta (accidental hemorrhage) and placenta praevia (unavoidable hemorrhage). Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Account of a woman who had the smallpox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the foetus.Phil. Trans., 70, 128-42, 1780.Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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L’art des accouchemens. 2 vols.Paris: Méquignon, 1781.Baudelocque invented a pelvimeter and advanced the knowledge of pelvimetry and of the mechanism of labor. The external conjugate diameter is known as “Baudelocque’s diameter”. English translation, London, 1790. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Pelvis: Pelvic Anomalies |
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Aphorisms in the application and use of the forceps and vectis, on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemorrhage and with convulsions.London: [No publisher identified], 1783.Denman "was the first physician whose authority made the practice general in England of inducing premature labour in cases of narrow pelvis and other conditions, in which the mother's life is imperilled by the attempt to deliver at the full-time" (DNB). This handbook emphasizing the solution to obstretric complications underwent 7 editions in England, 3 American editions, and a translation into French. Digital facsimile of the first American edition (1803) from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremeties, which sometimes happens to lying-in-women.Warrington, England: printed by W. Eyres, for C. Dilly in the Poultry London, 1784.First clinical description of phlegmasia alba dolens. White ascribed it to destruction of the lymphatics due to pressure of the foetal head. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Puerperal Fever |
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The first American edition, An abridgement of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables.Boston: J. Norman, 1786.An abridgement of Smellie's obstetrical writings, with plates engraved by the editor and publisher, John Norman, was the first medical book with engraved illustrations published in North America, and also the first book on obstetrics published in the United States. Digital facsimile of the 1786 edition from Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, Illustration, Medical, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A collection of engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species.London: J. Johnson, 1787.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: Subjects: BIOLOGY › Reproduction, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Abortion, PATHOLOGY › Pathology Illustration |
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Abhandlungen und Versuche geburtshilflichen Inhalts. 2 vols.Vienna: C.F. Wappler, 1791 – 1806.Böer, a pioneer of “natural childbirth”, was the founder of the Viennese school of obstetrics. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.St. Petersburg, Russia: K. Akad. D. Wiss, 1791.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 includes a brief literary history of obstetrics. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Russia, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › History of Obstetrics |
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An anatomical description of the human gravid uterus and its contents.London: J. Johnson; and G. Nicol, 1794.Hunter’s text for No. 6157, edited and published by Matthew Baillie after William Hunter's death. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog.Phil. Trans., 18, 157-78, 1799.Home records (p. 162) that John Hunter suggested artificial insemination. The actual insemination was performed by the patient’s husband with a syringe. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Infertility, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Drey Wahmehmungen von Schwangerschaften ausserhalb der Gebähr-mutter.Beobacht. k. k. med-chir. Josephs Acad. Wien, 1, 59-96, 1801.Interstitial pregnancy first reported. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.New York: Collins & Perkins, 1807.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 illustrator Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). Anderson was not credited in the book. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northeast, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Accounts of the pulvis parturiens, a remedy for quickening child-birth.Med. Reposit., 2 Hex., 5, 308-09, 1808.The first use of ergot in the induction of labor in America. Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1935, pp. 21-23. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Ergot |
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Mémorial de l’art des accouchements.Paris: Méquignon père, 1812.Mme Boivin was one of the most famous of the Paris midwives. She improved the speculum and wrote intelligently on hydatidiform mole. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1800 - 1899 |
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Case of an extra-uterine foetus, produced alive through an incision made into the vagina of the mother, who recovered after delivery, without any alarming symptoms.Med. Reposit., n.s., 3, 388-94, 1817.Reports the first successful vaginotomy for abdominal pregnancy, as opposed to an abdominal laparotomy. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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An analysis of the subject of extrauterine foetation and of the retroversion of the gravid uterus.Norwich, England: G. Wright, 1818.Expansion of No. 6166. First book on the subject. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und über die künstliche Frühgeburt.Mainz: F. Kupferberg, 1818.Artificial induction of premature labour. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Handbuch der Entbindungskunst. 3 vols. in 5.Tübingen: C. F. Osiander, 1818 – 1825.Includes (Bd. 2, Abt II, p. 302) description of Osiander’s lower-segment Caesarean operation. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Caesarian Section |
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Ueber den Mechanismus der Geburt.Dtsch. Arch. Physiol., 5, 483-531, 1819.Best work of its time on the mechanism of labor. English translation, London, 1829. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Pratique des accouchemens…par Marie Louise La Chapelle. Publiés par Antoine Dugès. 3 vols.Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1821 – 1825.Mme La Chapelle was a famous midwife and a colleague of Baudelocque. She supervised 5,000 deliveries and her vast experience enabled her to write her book. She reduced the 94 theoretical presentations suggested by Baudelocque to 22. The above, posthumously edited by her nephew, represents her life work. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1800 - 1899 |
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Mémoire sur l’auscultation appliquée à l’étude de la grossesse.Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1822.Although not the first to record the auscultation of the fetal heart sound, Le Jumeau (Kergaradec), a pupil of Laennec, brought the importance of this diagnostic procedure to the notice of the medical profession. Laennec reprinted Le Jumeau's paper in the later editions of De l’auscultation médiate (No. 2673). Subjects: CARDIOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS › Auscultation, PHYSIOLOGY › Fetal Physiology |
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Nouvelles recherches sur l’origine, la nature et le traitement de la mole vésiculaire ou grossesse hydatique.Paris: Méquignon L’Âiné Pére, 1827.Classic description of hydatidiform mole. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1800 - 1899 |
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Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.Paris: chez Trinquart et chez l'auteur, 1834.Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy.London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1837.“Montgomery’s glands”, the sebaceous glands of the areola, were previously described by Morgagni. They are described, with his “tubercles” (the secondary areola seen in pregnancy) in the above work. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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De arte obstetricia morbisque mulierum quae supersunt. Ex apographo Friderici Reinholdi Dietz, nuper fato perfuncti primum edita.Königsberg: Graefe et Unzer, 1838.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 antiquity. He recognized atresia of the vagina as being congenital or acquired from inflammation. He packed the uterus for hemorrhage and performed hysterectomy for prolapse. He described podalic version. Soranus also included full instructions on the care and management of infants.Translated into English, with an introduction by Oswei Temkin, with the assitance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher as Soranus' Gynaecology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1956. Digital facsimile of the 1838 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Hysterectomy, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Die geburtshülfiche AuscultationMainz: V. von Zabern, 1838.Pioneering work on obstetric auscultation, including the sounds of the foetal heart. English translation by C. West, London, 1839. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS › Auscultation |
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The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.Boston, MA: Daniel L. Hale, 1841.The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: BOTANY › Medical Botany, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 2 ser., 1, 495-517, 1843.Lever, of Guy’s Hospital, was the first to report the finding of albuminous urine in connection with puerperal convulsions. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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The heart-clot.Med. Exam., 5, 141-52, 1849.Meigs drew attention to embolism as a cause of sudden death in childbed. Previously such deaths had been attributed to syncope. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.Gaz.Hôp. (Paris), 3sér., 3, 573, 578-79, 581; 3 sér., 4, 45-46, 66-67, 1851, 1852.Classic description of pelvic hematocele. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Considérations sur l’avortement provoqué dans les cas de vomissements.Bull. Acad. Méd. (Paris), 17, 557-83, 1852.Classic description of hyperemesis gravidarum. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Rigidity of the soft parts – delivery effected by incision in the perineum.Stethoscope & Virginia med. Gaz., 2, 382, 1852.First episiotomy in America, 2 December 1851. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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On the displacements of the uterus.Edinb. med. surg. J., 81, 321-48, 1854.“Duncan’s folds”, the peritoneal folds of the uterus. Republished in book form, Edinburgh, 1854. Duncan, a leading Edinburgh obstetrician, became lecturer on the subject at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Difficult labors and their treatment.Cincinnati, OH: Jackson, White & Co, 1854.Wright was responsible for the introduction of combined cephalic version. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Traité de la folie des femmes enceintes, des nouvelles accouchées et des nourrices et considérations médico-légales qui se rattachent à ce sujet.Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1858.The first work on psychiatric illnesses of women during and after pregnancy. Marcé provided extensive clinical descriptions of syndromes, with 79 case examples, and summarized etiological theories and treatments characteristic of his era and place. This work was based on cases that he personally evaluated and on other reported cases, drawn from a wide range social and economic backgrounds. Marcé showed an appreciation of epidemiological evidence and a critical approach to the conventional pathophysiological and therapeutic views of his time. His work anticipated modern rediscovery of the high risk of depression in pregnancy and of both acute mood disorders and psychoses, postpartum. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PSYCHIATRY |
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De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.Leipzig: A. Edelmann, 1860.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. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.Wien. med. Wschr., 11, 713-16, 1861.Braun’s decapitation hook. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Observations in midwifery. As also The countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum. By Percivall Willughby, Gentleman. Edited from the original MS by Henry Blenkinsop.Warwick: Printed at the Shakespeare Printing Press, 1863.First edition of this work written in English in the 17th century, privately published in 1863, supposedly in an edition of 100 copies, from a manuscript then owned by Blenkinsop. Willughby has been characterized as "the first professional man to devote his practice entirely to obstetrics." Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The principles and practice of obstetrics.Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1864.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 completion of abortion. The book is very well illustrated. Hodge invented the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6043.1. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Abortion |
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On combined external and internal version.Trans. obstet. Soc. Lond. (1863), 5, 219-67, 1864.Introduction of combined podalic version. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Wandtafeln zur Schwangerschafts- und Geburtskunde. Text volume in quarto format plus atlas in double elephant folio format (915 x 650mm.)Leipzig: Ernest Julius Günther, 1865.This huge atlas of obstetric wall charts contains 20 chromolithographed plates measuring over 3 feet by 2 feet, illustrating the female reproductive anatomy, stages of pregnancy, normal and breech presentations of the fetus, and various types of vaginal delivery. These plates were intended to be mounted on the wall; they are probably the largest obstetrical charts ever published in book form. Included is an illustration of “Schultze’s mechanism” of normal placental separation and expulsion, in which the placenta slips “through the same rent in the membranes from which the fetus emerged . . . pulling its attached membranes along, inner surface showing, like a sock turned inside out” (Speert, Obstetrics and Gynecology: A History and Iconography, p. 250). Schultze, a professor of obstetrics at the University of Jena, is also known for his invention of the Schultze obstetric simulator, a dummy or manikin of the female pelvis used to demonstrate the mechanism of childbirth; this device was widely used in both Germany and the United States. Digital facsimile of the text from Google Books at this link. Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century, ANATOMY › Anatomical Illustration, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.Philadelphia: F. E. Boericke, 1867.Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Homeopathy, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1867.“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the property of the Royal Society of Medicine, who in turn presented it as a loan collection to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1912.... Regrettably this outstanding collection was almost totally destroyed by bombing during the Second World War” (Hibbard, The Obstetrician’s Armamentarium pp vii-ix). Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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On the condition of the uterus in obstructed labour.Trans. obstet. Soc. Lond., (1867), 9, 207-39, 1868.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.Bologna: Regia Tipog, 1869.Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as early as 1854. Digital facsimile from the Wellcome Library, Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Surgical Instruments, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, SURGERY: General |
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Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen CadavernLeipzig: Veit & Co., 1872.Supplement to No. 424. Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century, ANATOMY › Cross-Sectional, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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On the contractions of the uterus throughout pregnancy: Their physiological effects and their value in the diagnosis of pregnancy.Trans. obstet. Soc. Lond., (1871), 13, 216-31, 1872.“Braxton Hicks’s sign”. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1876.“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Extra-uterine pregnancy.Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1876.Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Description de deux nouveaux forceps.Paris: Lauwereyns, 1877.Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64 Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Traité du palper abdominal au point de vue obstétrical.Paris: H. Lauwereyns, 1878.Pinard, professor of obstetrics in Paris, showed the importance of abdominal palpation as an aid to obstetrical diagnosis. English translation, 1885. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS › Palpation |
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Clinical lecture on hepatic disease in gynaecology and obstetrics.Med. Times Gaz., 1, 57-59, 1879.Matthews Duncan pointed out that pernicious vomiting in pregnancy may be associated with hepatic lesions. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.Arch. Gynäk., 17, 50-53, 1881.Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1884. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Ocular Surgery & Procedures, PEDIATRICS › Neonatology |
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Five cases of extra-uterine pregnancy operated upon at the time of rupture.Brit med. J., 1, 1250-51, 1884.The first successful operation for ruptured ectopic pregnancy was performed by Lawson Tait on 1 March 1883. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1887.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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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.Ann. Gynéc. Obstet., 30, 401-38, 1888.The “Champetier de Ribes bag”. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele.Birmingham, England: Journal Printing Works, 1888.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Die Conjugata eines engen Beckens ist keine konstante Grosse, sondem lässt sich durch die Körperhaltung der Trägerin verändem.Zbl. Gynäk., 13, 892-93, 1889.Description of the “Walcher position”. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Sulla provocazione artificiale del parto e sul parto forzato col mezzo della dilatazione meccanica del collouterino.Ann. Ostet. Ginec., 14, 881-928, 1892.Bossi originated the method of induction of premature labour by means of forced dilatation of the cervix. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Tubo peritoneal ectopic gestation.Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, 1892.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Researches in female pelvic anatomy.Edinburgh & London: Young J. Pentland & Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1892.The first cross-sectional anatomy of the pelvic anatomy during the puerperium, the period of about six weeks after childbirth during which the mother's reproductive organs return to their original non-pregnant condition. Webster reproduces in color cross-sectional anatomies of women who died of diseases on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 15th days of the puerperium. The final chapter describes and illustrates with cross-sectional images "the femal pelvis in the beginning of the fifth month of pregnancy." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ANATOMY › Cross-Sectional, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.Paris: G. Steinheil, 1894.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 obstetrics. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, SURGERY: General › Antisepsis / Asepsis |
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Taglio lateralizzato del pube, suoi vantaggi, sua technica.Ann. Obstet. Ginec., 16, 649-67, 1894.Gigli’s saw, first used for pubiotomy. German translation, Zbl. Chir., 1894, 21, 409-11. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Diagnose der frühesten Schwangerschaftsperiode.Dtsch. med. Wscbr., 21, 565-67, 1895.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. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Een geval van ovariaalzwangerschap (zwangerschap in een Graafschen follikel).Ned. T. Verlosk. Gynaec., 8, 157-68, 1897.First description of ovarian pregnancy. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1898.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, كاهون) by Flinders Petrie in 1889, and first translated by F. Ll. Griffith in 1893, and published in The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob. The papyrus concerns women's health issues—gynecological diseases, fertility, pregnancy, and contraception. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Egypt, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri, Contraception , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A note on the influence of maternal inebriety on the offspring.J. ment. Sci., 45, 489-503, 1899.Fetal alcohol syndrome – first serious study. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, TOXICOLOGY › Neurotoxicology |
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On the treatment of eclampsia.Vrach, St. Petersburg, 21, 1137-40, 1900.The first of Stroganoff s important papers on the pathogenesis and treatment of eclampsia. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene. Volume 1, The foetus. Volume 2, The embryo.Edinburgh: William Green & Sons, 1902 – 1904.Ballantyne was a pioneer advocate of antenatal care. Volume 2, The Embryo, is the most complete history of teratology in English, and among the best in any language. American edition, New York, 1905. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, TERATOLOGY › History of Teratology |
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Sinfisiotomia classica e taglio lateralizzato del pube.Clin. mod., 8, 302-08, 1902.“Gigli’s operation”. Gigli substituted pubiotomy for symphysiotomy. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Obstetrics.New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.The most famous American textbook of obstetrics. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Obstetrics for nurses.Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1904.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: NURSING, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Grundzüge einer Biologie der menschlichen Plazenta. Mit besonderer Berücksichtig der Fragen der fötalen Ernährung.Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1905.Discovery of Hofbauer cells, oval eosinophilic histiocytes with granules and vacuoles found in the placenta, which are of mesenchymal origin, in mesoderm of the chorionic villus, particularly numerous in early pregnancy. Digital facsmile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Über die direkte Ableitung der Aktionsströme des menschlichen Herzens vom Oesophagus und über das Elektrokardiogramm des Fötus.Münch. med. Wschr., 53, 811-13, 1906.Fetal electrocardiogram recorded. Cremer was also the first to record an electrocardiogram with an electrode in the esophagus. Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Electrocardiography, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHYSIOLOGY › Fetal Physiology |
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Die Mechanik der Geburt.Samml. klin. Vortr., n.F., Nr. 421, (Gynäk., Nr. 156), 659-82, 1906.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Die künstliche Blutleere der unteren Körperhälfte.Zbl. Chir., 35, 697-99, 1908.Abdominal ligature in prevention of post-partum haemorrhage. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The pituitary body and the therapeutic value of the infundibular extract in shock, uterine atony, and intestinal paresis.Brit. med. J., 2, 1609-13, 1909.Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Shock, ENDOCRINOLOGY › Pituitary, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Ueber die Anwendung des Roentgenverfahrens bei der Diagnose der Schwangerschaft.Fortschr. Röntgenstr., 17, 345-55, 1911.First use of x rays for the diagnosis of pregnancy. Subjects: IMAGING › X-ray, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Pregnancy Tests |
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The principles and practice of obstetrics.Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1913.Digital facsimile of the 1914 printing from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Ueber die Anlegung der Zange am nicht rotierten Kopf mit Beschreibung eines neuen Zangenmodelles und einer neuen Anlegungsmethode.Mschr. Geburtsh. Gynäk., 43, 48-78, 1916.Kielland forceps. English translation and historical background in E.P. Jones, Kielland’s forceps, London, 1952. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 27, 596-600, 1918.Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion. Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › Anemia & Chlorosis, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, THERAPEUTICS › Blood Transfusion |
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Observations on the severe anaemias of pregnancy and the post-partum state.Brit. med. J., 1, 1-3, 1919.Osler described his four-part classification of anemias of pregnancy: anemia from post-partum hemorrhage, severe anemia of pregnancy, post-partum anemia, and the acute anemia of post-partum sepsis. This was Osler's last substantial scientific publication; it appeared the year he died. Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › Anemia & Chlorosis, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.1919.“Cullen’s sign”. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The prophylactic forceps operation.Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol., 1, 34-44, 1920.DeLee's advocacy of prophylactic forceps delivery made forceps deliveries more common. It remains probably his most controversial contribution to obstetrics. "At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920, DeLee sparked controversy when he presented a paper advocating for the use of a systematic approach to childbirth for physicians, including the use of forceps and episiotomy even in women who had no labor complications.[3] DeLee's "prophylactic forceps operation" consisted of several steps: scopolamine injections in the first stage of labor, ether anesthesia in the next stage, then episiotomy and forceps delivery. Ergot was used in the subsequent manual extraction of the placenta.[10] DeLee reasoned that the episiotomy prevented perineal tears which could cause complications like uterine prolapse and vesicovaginal fistula. He said that the early use of forceps would avoid pressure from the pelvic bones against a baby's head, thus preventing complications like epilepsy and cerebral palsy; DeLee said that fatal complications occurred in 4–5% of labors managed with the traditional conservative approach.[11] Though DeLee said that such interventions should only be carried out by a well-equipped physician specialist, John Whitridge Williams and other prominent obstetricians criticized DeLee sharply. They felt that DeLee was being too aggressive by removing a baby before complications occurred; DeLee's colleagues preferred to be conservative and to manage complications as they arose. (Wikipedia article on Joseph DeLee, accessed 4-2020).
Digital facsimile from academyofpelvicsurgery.com at this link. Subjects: INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Forceps, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Version.Amer J. Obstet. Gynec., 1, 560-73, 1921.Potter’s operation of podalic version. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A pathognomonic sign of intra-uterine death.Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 34, 754-57, 1922.“Spalding’s sign” of fetal death. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1927.Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Fractures & Dislocations |
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Amniography; preliminary report.Amer.J. Roentgenol., 24, 363-66, 1930.Introduction of amniography. With J. D. Miller and L. E. Holly. Subjects: IMAGING › X-ray, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Cerebral birth injuries: Their orthopaedic classification and subsequent treatment.J. Bone Jt. Surg., 14, 773-82, 1932.Phelps established the modern classification and approach to these injuries. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, ORTHOPEDICS › Diseases of or Injuries to Bones, Joints & Skeleton |
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Natural childbirth.London: Heinemann, 1933.In this work Dick-Read coined the term "natural childbirth." He advocated natural childbirth for many years; he demonstrated that prenatal education in methods of relaxation in many cases makes labor almost painless. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Sound motion pictures in obstetrics.Journal of the Biological Photographic Assoc., 2, 60-68, 1933.DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. In this paper he described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff members. Subjects: IMAGING › Cinematography, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Roentgen visualization of the placenta.Amer.J. Roentgenol., 31, 37-40, 1934.Direct radiography of the placenta. "Clilan (C.B.) Powell, longtime owner of the Amsterdam News, was born in 1894 to former Virginia slaves. Very little is known about his childhood. He received his medical degree in 1920 from Howard University School of Medicine and began his career specializing in x-ray technology. Powell was the first African American x-ray specialist and owned a laboratory in Harlem. It was at his lab where he met Dr. Philip H.M. Savory, his future business partner. The two physicians collaborated to create the Powell-Savory Corporation in 1935. With this new corporation, they switched their focus from medicine to business, and became two of the leading African American entrepreneurs in the 1930s. They first purchased the failing Victory Life Insurance Company in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois and revived it to a thriving business. In 1935 they purchased the Amsterdam News, the largest newspaper in Harlem, for $5,000. Powell became publisher of the New York paper and retained that post until its sale in 1971. Powell studied other successful newspapers including the New York Times and patterned the Amsterdam News after them. He also made the Amsterdam News home for numerous African American journalists such as Earl Brown, Thomas Watkins, James L. Hicks, and Jesse H. Walker. Powell expanded the paper’s coverage to include national and international news...." (blackpast.org article on C. B. Powell, accessed 5-2020). Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY, IMAGING › X-ray, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1934.Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The substance responsible for the traditional clinical effect of ergot.Brit. med. J., 1, 520-23, 1935.Isolation and introduction of ergometrine. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Ergot › Ergometrine |
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A clinical and genetic study of 1,280 cases of mental defect.Spec. Rep. Ser. Med. Res. Coun. (Lond), No. 229, 1938.In this exhaustive study Penrose showed (p. 36) the significance of maternal age in the etiology of Down syndrome. Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Down Syndrome, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Prediction and prevention of late pregnancy accidents in diabetes.Amer. J. med. Sci., 198, 482-92, 1939.First report of hormone treatment. Written with R.S. Titus, E.P. Joslin, and H. Hunt. Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics.J. Amer. med. Ass., 117, 1245-54, 1340-45, 1941.Amniotic fluid embolism described. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.Curr. Res. Anesth. Analg., 21, 301-11, 1942.Subjects: ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Congenital defects in infants following infectious diseases during pregnancy.Med. J. Aust., 2, 201-10, 1943.Figures demonstrating that rubella in the first or second month of pregnancy always results in an abnormal infant. With A. L. Tostevin, B. Moore, H. Mayo, and G. H. B. Black. Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rubella & Allied Conditions, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Acute inversion of the uterus.Brit. med. J., 2, 282-83, 1945.O’Sullivan’s method of replacement by intravaginal hydraulic pressure. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.Sem. méd. (B. Aires), 1, 337-40, 1947.Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Argentina, ENDOCRINOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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A saliva test for prenatal sex determination.Science, 115, 265, 1952.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955.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, the structure of the body, and supposed remedies used to heal these afflictions; specifically namely ophthalmologic ailments, gynaecology, muscles, tendons, and diseases of children. It is the only well-known papyrus to describe these in great detail. Papyrus IV deals with issues similar to the Kahun Gynecological Papyrus, such as labor, the protection of the newborn, ways to predict the likelihood of its survival, and ways to predict which gender the newborn will be. It also contains a contraception formula.Papyrus V contains numerous prescriptions dealing with the relaxation of limbs, written in hieroglyphic script, rather than hieratic script.
Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Medical Papyri, Contraception , OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OPHTHALMOLOGY , PEDIATRICS |
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Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956.Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Greece, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS |
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Investigation of abdominal masses by pulsed ultrasound.Lancet, 1, 1188-94, 1958.Donald, J. MacVicar and T. G. Brown used an ultrasound scanner to investigate the pregnant abdomen (see also No. 6235.1). Subjects: IMAGING › Sonography (Ultrasound), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Demonstration of tissue interfaces within the body by ultrasonic echo sounding.Brit. J. Radiol., 34, 539-46, 1961.Biparietal fetal cephalometry by ultrasound. Subjects: IMAGING › Sonography (Ultrasound), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Fetal development as determined by ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol., 92, 44-52, 1965.Order of authorship in the original publication: Thompson, Holmes, Gottesfeld, Taylor. This was the first paper on the use of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology published in the United States. Subjects: IMAGING › Sonography (Ultrasound), OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Intrauterine diagnosis and management of genetic defects.Amer. J. Obstet. Gynec., 99, 796-807, 1967.Amniocentesis used to diagnose genetic disorders in utero. First detailed report. See also Fuchs, F., Genetic information from amniotic fluid contents. Lancet, 1960, 2, 180. "During the course of the criminal investigation, another type of fraud came to light. For a variety of reasons, some patients had arranged to be artificially inseminated with sperm provided by screened, anonymous donors arranged by [Cecil Bryan] Jacobson. In order to preserve the anonymity of the donors, Jacobson explained, he identified them in records using code numbers; only Jacobson was to know their true identities. Investigators found no evidence that any donor program actually existed. Some of Jacobson's patients who had conceived through donor insemination agreed to genetic testing. At least seven instances were identified in which Jacobson was the biological father of the patients' children, including one patient who was supposed to have been inseminated with sperm provided by her husband. DNA tests linked Jacobson to at least 15 such children, and it has been suspected that he fathered as many as 75 children by impregnating patients with his own sperm" (Wikipedia article on Cecil Jacobson, accessed 05-22-2015). Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › GENETIC DISORDERS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.Lancet, 295, 1185-1188, 1970.In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Leukemia, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure |
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Women and their bodies.Boston, MA: New England Free Press, 1970.This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal advertising, and evolved into a book entitled Our Bodies, Ourselves. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, SEXUALITY / Sexology, SOCIAL MEDICINE, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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The anatomical works of George Stubbs.Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1975.Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1). Subjects: ART & Medicine & Biology, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, VETERINARY MEDICINE |
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Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1981.This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject. Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983."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. Practitioners from Babylonia and Egypt, whose expertise was acknowledged to be superior to that of local physicians, were welcome at the Hittite court" (G. Beckman, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30208, accessed 06-2018). Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Anatolia, ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Turkey, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.New Eng. J. Med., 316, 183-186, 1987.Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Parvovirus Diseases, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS, VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999 |
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The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of Naples, then the leading center of medical learning in Europe. Yet as Monica H. Green reveals in her introduction to this first edition of the Latin text since the sixteenth century, and the first English translation of the book ever based upon a medieval form of the text, the Trotula is not a single treatise but an ensemble of three independent works, each by a different author. To varying degrees, these three works reflect the synthesis of indigenous practices of southern Italians with the new theories, practices, and medicinal substances coming out of the Arabic world" (publisher). Subjects: MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Italy › Schola Medica Salernitana, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives, WOMEN in Medicine & the Life Sciences, Publications About, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1000 - 1499, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 2000 - |
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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.Tucson, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006."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 independent text known in modern scholarship as The Sickness of Women. That text was then modified further in the mid-15th century by the addition of materials from Muscio and other sources on obstetrics; this is known as The Sickness of Women 2.[5] Between them, the two versions of The Sickness of Women were the most widely circulated Middle English texts on women's medicine in the 15th century, even more popular than the several Middle English versions of the Trotula texts" (Wikipedia article on Gilbertus Anglicus, accessed 01-2017). Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Manuscripts & Philology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › England, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Midwives |
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Books & babies: Communicating reproduction.Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Library, 2011.http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies/index.html "The London underground displays posters for fertility clinics, directed at both women and men. Picture books teach children the facts of life. We are always reading about reproduction. Reproduction also describes what communication media do—multiply images, sounds and text for wider consumption. This exhibition is about these two senses of reproduction, about babies and books, and the ways in which they have interacted in the past and continue to interact today. Before reproduction there was generation, a broader view of how all things come into being than passing on the blueprint of a particular form of life. Before electronic media there were clay figurines, papyrus, parchment, printed books and journals. The interactions between communication media and ideas about reproduction have transformed the most intimate aspects of our lives." Subjects: BIOLOGY › Reproduction, DIGITAL RESOURCES › Digital Exhibition Catalogues, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |
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Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caearian-section birth.Nature, 574, 117-121, 2019.Order of authorship in the original publication: Shao, Forster, Tsaliki....The authors used whole genome sequencing to characterize the microbiota of caesarian babies, demonstrating that caesarian babies were not colonized with healthy mothers' microbiomic species, but by opportunistic pathogens from the hospital environment. "This analysis demonstrates that the mode of delivery is a significant factor that affects the composition of the gut microbiota throughout the neonatal period and into infancy." (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.) Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY › Microbiome, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS |