Gerald W. Korn Gynecology and Obstetrics Collection
G
erald W. Korn practised obstetrics and gynecology in Vancouver from 1972. In 1976 he gifted his fine collection of early obstetrics, gynecology and midwifery books to UBC Library.
This collection listing currently provides links to digital copies of the book (where available) through the book title and, and links to the UBC Library Catalogue are provided through the books call number.
- Daraus man alle Heimligkeit dess Weiblichen Geschlechts erkennen kan : Dessgleichen von ihrer Geburt, sampt mancherley Artzney der Krauter : auch von tugendt der edlen Gestein und der Thier byCall Number: WZ250 .A434 1608Publication Date: 1608Albertus Magnus was a German physician who recommended hog testes for impotence, and powdered hare womb for infertile women.
Available through Google Books - Diez previlegios para mugeres preñadas : con un diccionario medico. byCall Number: WZ250.A465Publication Date: 1606Available through Google Books.
- Historia obstetricia byCall Number: WZ260.H588 1700zPublication Date: 1700No electronic text available.
- Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife byCall Number: WZ250.A758 1700Publication Date: 1700“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)
2nd edition available from Gale 18th Century Collections online. UBC subscription required to view. - A treatise on all the diseases incident to women : containing an account of their causes, differences, symptoms, diagnostics, prognostics, and cure. byCall Number: WZ260.A8813 1743Publication Date: 1743Translated 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.
Available from Google Books - De virginum et mulierum morbis byCall Number: WZ250.B334 1643Publication Date: 1643First edition.
Available from Hathi Trust Digital Library - On the treatment of rupture of the female perineum; immediate and remote byCall Number: WP.B358 1878Publication Date: 1878Bantock opposed the antisepsis proposed by Lister and Semmelweis.
Available from Google Books - Caspari Bartholini Thom. f. de ovariis mulierum et generationis historia byCall Number: WZ250.B378 1678Publication Date: 1678Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin described the vulvovaginal gland and its ducts.
Provided by the Bavarian State University. - Traité de la péritonite puerpéral byCall Number: WQ.B383 1830Publication Date: 1830Provided by Google Books.
- L'art des accouchemens, Volume 1 byCall Number: WZ260.B383 1781Publication Date: 1781First 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.”
Provided by the Internet Archive - L'art des accouchemens, Volume 2 byCall Number: WZ260.B383 1781Publication Date: 1781Provided by the Internet Archive
- The span of gestation and the cause of birth : a study of the critical period and its effects in mammalia byCall Number: QP281.B427 1897Publication Date: 1897Provided by the Internet Archive
- Kalogynomia, or, The laws of female beauty : being the elementary principles of that science. byCall Number: HQ31.B445 1821Publication Date: 1821"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".
Provided by the Internet Archive - The sex-complex : a study of the relationships of the internal secretions to the female characteristics and functions in health and disease. 2nd ed. byCall Number: WP505.B445 1921Publication Date: 1921“Blair Bell was an outstanding figure in British gynaecology and one of the founders of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaeologists.”
Provided by the Internet Archive - Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols. byCall Number: WP.B475 1860Publication Date: 1860First edition. “One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid nineteenth century.”
Provided by the Internet Archive - The power of the mother's imagination over the foetus examin'd : in answer to Dr. Daniel Turner's book, intitled A defence of the XIIth chapter of the first part of a treatise, De morbis cutaneis. byCall Number: WZ260.B565 1727Publication Date: 1729Provided by Google Books
- The strength of imagination in pregnant women examin'd : and the opinion that marks and deformities in children arise from thence, demonstrated to be a vulgar error. byCall Number: WZ260.B565 1727Publication Date: 1727Blondel, 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.
Provided by Gale 18th Century Collections Online - Mémorial de l'art des accouchements : ouvrage pratique, dans lequel on a représenté avec soin, en 133 gravures, toutes les positions de l'enfant, le mécanisme de tous les accouchements, et rappelé, en peu de mots, les règles qu'il faut observer dans byCall Number: WQ.B638 1812Publication Date: 1812Provided by Google Books
- Traité pratique des maladies de l'utérus et de ses annexes : fondé sur un grand nombre d'observations cliniques : atlas de 41 planches in folio gravées et coloriées, représentant les principales altérations morbides des organes génitaux de la femm byCall Number: WP.B638 1833Publication Date: 1833Provided by Google Books
- Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondite, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz : amplement traictées et heureusement practiquées byCall Number: WZ250.B68 1609Publication Date: 1609Provided by Google Books
- Popular directions for the treatment of the diseases of women and children byCall Number: WZ270.B875 1811Publication Date: 1811John Burns described the yellow colour of the corpus luteum and its whitish centre.
Provided by the US National Library of Medicine online collection. - An essay towards a complete new system of midwifry, theoretical and practical: together with the descriptions, causes, and methods byCall Number: WZ260.B878 1751Publication Date: 1751First 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)
Provided by Gale Eighteenth Century Collections online, document ID no. CW108018459.
Available with UBC subscription login only - Theoretische en praktische verloskunde byCall Number: WQ.B8813 1841Publication Date: 1841Provided by Google Books
- Beschreibung zweier merkwürdigen menschlichen Misgeburten byCall Number: QSB.B883 1803Publication Date: 1803Provided by the Universal Multimedia Electronic Library (Germany)