History of Science and Medicine

Albertus Magnus was a German physician who recommended hog testes for impotence, and powdered hare womb for infertile women.

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“The author, editor or compiler of this precious rubbish was William Salmon (1644-1713), a well-known sixteenth century quack.” (D’Arcy Power in The foundations of medical history, 1931, p 171 (WZ9.P6 1931)

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Translated from a manuscript copy of the author's lectures read at Paris, 1740. First edition in English. Astruc documented genital herpes as a clinical entity. He published treatises on syphilis, smallpox, women’s diseases, and wrote extensively on tumors.

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Bantock opposed the antisepsis proposed by Lister and Semmelweis.

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Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin described the vulvovaginal gland and its ducts.

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First edition. “Baudelocque invented a pelvimeter and advanced the knowledge of pelvimetry and of the mechanism of labour. The external conjugate diameter is known as ‘Baudelocque’s diameter’. English translation, London, 1790.”

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"Plates 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 should not be carelessly exposed either to Ladies or to Young Persons. These Plates are therefore stitched up separately ... they are therefore detached from the work, and may be locked up separately".

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“Blair Bell was an outstanding figure in British gynaecology and one of the founders of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaeologists.”

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Blondel, a native of Paris who qualified in Leyden and practised in London, wrote these tracts to counter some of the quackery of the time; for example, the mother’s imagination could not affect the fetus.

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John Burns described the yellow colour of the corpus luteum and its whitish centre.

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First edition. “Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section. Sterne satirized him as ‘Dr Slop’ in Tristam Shandy..” He attacks Smellie viciously, holding his scholarship up to ridicule, jibing at his thoroughness and concluding he is a pure theorist and a poor practitioner. (Curtis)

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