Facets

1544

#6009.1

Experimentarius medicinae. Continens Trotulae curandarum aegriudinum muliebrium ante, in & post partium lib. unicum, nusquam antea editum…[Georg Kraut]

First printed edition of the gynecological writings attributed to the woman physician, Trota, who is frequently called Trotula after the name of the collection of works with whom she is associated. Trota is said to ha…

1717

#10530

Syphilis: A practical dissertation on the venereal disease. In which, after a short account of its nature and original; the diagnostick and prognostick signs, with the best ways of curing the several degrees of that distemper, together with some historical observations relating to the same, are candidly and without reserve, communicated. In two parts.

The first work published in English to include the word syphilis, and also the first English work to include the word condom. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1791

#6161

Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.

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 include…

1838

#6008

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

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

1888

#13468

Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#6267

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

The earliest known description of puerperal fever.

1927

#6009

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

Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.

1933

#6300

L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.

1936

#11896

Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.

1954

#6311.1

Historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1950.

Edited by J. M. Munro Kerr, R. W. Johnstone, and M.H. Phillips. Supplements No. 6299.

1956

#9367

Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

1976

#6742.8

The lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969.

1981

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

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.

1987

#8048

Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th c…

1990

#10173

The science of woman: Gynaecology and gender in England, 1800-1929.

2001

#12953

The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.

The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…

2002

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

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 Euro…

2006

#8366

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.

"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 indepen…

2007

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood t…

2008

#10635

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

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

2014

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

2017

#10754

Infertility in early modern England.

2017

#11038

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

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