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1772Practical observations on the child-bed fever.
LEAKE, John (1729 – 1792)
1773A 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.
WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
1774Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
1775An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases.
RIGBY, Edward (1747 – 1821)
RIGBY, Edward (1747 – 1821)
1780Account of a woman who had the smallpox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the foetus.
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
1781L’art des accouchemens. 2 vols.
BAUDELOCQUE, Jean-Louis (1746 – 1810)
BAUDELOCQUE, Jean-Louis (1746 – 1810)
1783Aphorisms in the application and use of the forceps and vectis, on preternatural labours, on labours attended with hemorrhage and with convulsions.
DENMAN, Thomas (1733 – 1815)
DENMAN, Thomas (1733 – 1815)
1784An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremeties, which sometimes happens to lying-in-women.
WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
WHITE, Charles (1728 – 1813)
1786The first American edition, An abridgement of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables.
SMELLIE, William (1697 – 1763)
SMELLIE, William (1697 – 1763) NORMAN, John (1748 – 1817)
1787A collection of engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species.
DENMAN, Thomas (1733 – 1815)
DENMAN, Thomas (1733 – 1815)
1791​–1806Abhandlungen und Versuche geburtshilflichen Inhalts. 2 vols.
BÖER, Lucas Johann [BOOGERS] (1751 – 1835)
1791Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.
MOHRENHEIM, Joseph Jacob von (1759 – 1797)
1794An anatomical description of the human gravid uterus and its contents.
BAILLIE, Matthew (1761 – 1823)
BAILLIE, Matthew (1761 – 1823)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
1795A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen.
GORDON, Alexander (1752 – 1799)
1798A case of the caesarean operation performed, and the life of the woman preserved. IN: Medical records and researches selected from the papers of a private medical association, pp. 154-163.
BARLOW, James (1767 – 1839)
1799Account of the dissection of an hermaphrodite dog.
HOME, Sir Everard (1756 – 1832)
HOME, Sir Everard (1756 – 1832)
1801Drey Wahmehmungen von Schwangerschaften ausserhalb der Gebähr-mutter.
SCHMITT, Wilhelm Joseph (1760 – 1827)
1807A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1808Accounts of the pulvis parturiens, a remedy for quickening child-birth.
STEARNS, John (1770 – 1848)
1812Mémorial de l’art des accouchements.
BOIVIN, Marie Anne Victoire (1773 – 1841)
BOIVIN, Marie Anne Victoire (1773 – 1841)
1817Case 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.
KING, John (1774 – 1840)
1818An analysis of the subject of extrauterine foetation and of the retroversion of the gravid uterus.
KING, John (1774 – 1840)
1818Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und über die künstliche Frühgeburt.
WENZEL, Carl (1769 – 1827)
1818​–1825Handbuch der Entbindungskunst. 3 vols. in 5.
OSIANDER, Friedrich Benjamin (1759 – 1822)
OSIANDER, Friedrich Benjamin (1759 – 1822)
1819Ueber den Mechanismus der Geburt.
NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
1821​–1825Pratique des accouchemens…par Marie Louise La Chapelle. Publiés par Antoine Dugès. 3 vols.
DUGÈS, Antoine Louis (1798 – 1838)
LACHAPELLE, Marie-Louise (1769 – 1821)
LACHAPELLE, Marie-Louise (1769 – 1821)
1822Mémoire sur l’auscultation appliquée à l’étude de la grossesse.
KERGARADEC, Jean Alexandre le Jumeau, vicomte de (1787 – 1877)
1823An essay on the proximate cause of the disease called phlegmasia dolens.
DAVIS, David Daniel (1777 – 1841)
1825Geschichte eines mit ungünstigem Erfolge verrichteten Bauchscheidenschnitts und Folgerung daraus.
RITGEN, Ferdinand August Marie Franz (1787 – 1867)
1825Das weibliche Becken.
NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
1827Nouvelles recherches sur l’origine, la nature et le traitement de la mole vésiculaire ou grossesse hydatique.
BOIVIN, Marie Anne Victoire (1773 – 1841)
BOIVIN, Marie Anne Victoire (1773 – 1841)
1834Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.
DELACOUX, Alexis
1834Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.
GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (1783 – 1872)
GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (1783 – 1872)
1837An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy.
MONTGOMERY, William Fetherston (1797 – 1859)
1838De arte obstetricia morbisque mulierum quae supersunt. Ex apographo Friderici Reinholdi Dietz, nuper fato perfuncti primum edita.
SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150) DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold (1805 – 1836)
1838Recherches d’anatomie et de physiologie sur le système vasculaire sanguin de l’utérus humain pendant la gestation, et plus spécialement sur les vaisseaux utero-placentaires.
JACQUEMIER, Jean Marie (1806 – 1879)
1838Die geburtshülfiche Auscultation
NAEGELE, Hermann Franz Joseph (1810 – 1858)
1839Das schräg verengte Becken nebst einem Anhange über die wichtigsten Fehler des weiblichen Beckens überhaupt.
NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
NAEGELE, Franz Karl (1778 – 1851)
1839Beyträge zur Kenntniss der Rückgrathskrümmungen, und der mit demselben zusammentreffenden Abweichungen des Brustkorbes und Beckens.
ROKITANSKY, Carl Freiherr von (1804 – 1878)
ROKITANSKY, Carl Freiherr von (1804 – 1878)
1841The 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.
MATTSON, Morris
1842​–1843The contagiousness of puerperal fever.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
1843Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.
LEVER, John Charles Weaver (1811 – 1858)
1844Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.
HALMAGRAND, Charles-Nicolas (1803 – 1892)
1847​–1848Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.
SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865)
SEMMELWEIS, Ignaz Philipp (Ignác Fülöp) (1818 – 1865)
1847The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility
LOHMAN, Ann Trow (Madam Restell) (1812 – 1878) LOHMAN, Charles M.
1849The heart-clot.
MEIGS, Charles Delucena (1792 – 1869)
MEIGS, Charles Delucena (1792 – 1869)
1851Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.
NÉLATON, Auguste (1807 – 1873)
1851Das enge Becken: nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen.
MICHAELIS, Gustav Adolf (1798 – 1848)
MICHAELIS, Gustav Adolf (1798 – 1848)
1852Considérations sur l’avortement provoqué dans les cas de vomissements.
DUBOIS, Paul Anton (1795 – 1871)
DUBOIS, Paul Anton (1795 – 1871)
1852Rigidity of the soft parts – delivery effected by incision in the perineum.
TALIAFERRO, Valentine Ham (1831 – 1888)