190 History of Special Sciences 



Stearn, Esther (Wagner); Steam, Allen Edwin: 



1945: The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian (153 p., Boston; 

 Isis37, 124). 



Sticker, Georg (1860- ): 



1908-12: Abhandlungen aus der Seuchengeschichte und Seuchenlehre (2 vol. in 

 3, Giessen).— Vol. 1 in 2 parts, 1908-10, History of the plague.— Vol. 2, 596 p., 1912. 

 History of cholera. 



Winslow, Charles Edward Amory (1877- ): 



1943: The conquest of epidemic disease (424 p., Princeton, N. J., Isis 35, 347). 



Zinsser, Hans (1878-1940): 



1935: Rats, lice and history (312 p., Boston). History of typhus fever. 



GYNAECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS 



Diepgen, Paul ( 1878- ) : 



1937: Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde (Handbuch der Gynakologie, hrg. v. W. 

 Stoeckel; vol. 12, Miinchen). — 1. Teil, Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt (358 p., 

 ill.; Isis 28, 123-26). 



Engelmann, Georg Julius (1847-1903): 



1883: Labor among primitive peoples {2nd ed. rev. 246 p., St. Louis). — German 

 transl. (212 p., Wien 1884). 



Fasbender, Heinrich (1843-1914): 



1906: Geschichte der Geburtshilfe (1044 p., Jena). — ^Very elaborate history. 



Findley, Palmer ( 1868- ) : 



1939: Priests of Lucina (436 p., ill., Boston; Isis 32, 489). 



La Torre, Felice (1846-1923): 



1917: L'utero attraverso i secoh (852 p., ill., Citta di Castello; Isis 5, 279). 



Leonardo, Richard A.: 



1944: History of gynecology (454 p., 25 pi., New York; Isis 37, 123). 



Ricci, James Vincent (1890- ): 



1949: The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments (604 p., 

 Philadelphia; Isis 42). 



1950: The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology 

 (599 p., Philadelphia; Isis 42). 



Siebold, Eduard Kaspar Jakob v. ( 1801-61 ) : 



1839-45: Versuch einer Geschichte der Geburtshiilfe (2 vols. Berlin). — Revised 

 ed. (2 vols. Tiibingen 1901-2). — Continuation by Rudolf Dohrn, for the period 

 1840-80, forming vol. 3 (in 2 parts, Tubingen 1903-4). 



Thorns, Herbert ( 1885- ) : 



1935: Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology (289 p., ill., Spring- 

 field, Illinois; Isis 25, 174-75). 



Weindler, Fritz: 



1908: Geschichte der gynakologisch-anatomischen Abbildungen (202 p., ill., 

 Dresden ) . 



Witkowski, Gustave Joseph (1844- ): 



1887: Histoire des accouchements chez tons les peuples (728 p., 1584 fig. Paris). 



The author wrote many other books dealing with obstetrics and medicine from 

 the anecdotic and iconographic points of view. 



