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GYNECOLOGY]. -- SIMS, James Marion (1813-1883). Amputation of the cervix uteri . Offprint from: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York (1861). New York [n.p.], 1861. Text illustrations. Disbound. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Sims' operation for amputation of the cervix. Garrison-Morton 6049; Norman 1948. -- SIMS. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery. With special reference to the management of the sterile condition . New York: William Wood 1866. 8 o . Numerous text illustrations. Single sheet circular dated 5 May 1877 and entitled "To the medical profession. Statements respecting the separation of Dr. J. Marion Sims from the Women's Hospital, New York", defending the hospital's position in Dr. Sims' resignation, laid in. Original brown grained cloth, gilt-lettered spine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Sims was one of the foremost gynecologists of his time. This major work includes the first description of the duckbill vagina speculum ("Sims speculum") and a description of the knee-chest position (Sims position), which Sims repopularized. "Includes important and pioneering work on the treatment of infertility, including analysis of conditions essential to conception, and record of a successful artificial insemination" (Garrison-Morton 6057 - English edition); Grolier Medicine 66B; Heirs of Hippocrates 1805; Waller 8964 (2nd German ed.); Norman 1949. -- WELLS, Thomas Spencer (1818-1897). Diseases of the Ovaries. Their diagnosis and treatment . London: John Churchill, 1865. 8 o . Text illustrations. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine (joints worn). Provenance : Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858" (Garrison-Morton 6056); Norman 2196. -- WELLS. Disease of the Ovaries: Their diagnosis and treatment . London: J. & A. Churchill; New York: D. Appleton, 1872. 8 o . Text illustrations. Modern cloth. FIRST EDITION. Between his first operation in 1858 and 1880, Wells performed over 1000 ovariotomies, the majority of which were successful. Garrison-Morton 6056; Norman 2197. -- WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864-1940). Allgemeine geburtshlfliche Betrachtungen und ber die knstliche Frhgeburt . Mainz: Florian Kupferberg, 1818. 4 o . Contemporary blue paste boards. FIRST EDITION. Wenzel was the first in Germany to perform artificial induction of premature labor. Garrison-Morton 6168; Norman 2202. (5)