Description

Frye & Smith Ltd., San Diego [Published date: circa 1943]. Hardcover, xvi, 328 pp; illustrated with black-and-white anatomical diagrams and medical illustrations ; 26 cm. Acceptable condition / no dust jacket. Green cloth-covered boards show light to moderate overall scuffing, soiling, and some small discolored spots to lower front cover. Spine cracked along the page following the half-title, with the binding shaken but holding. Previous owner has written copious margin notes throughout the text and on the rear endpapers. An acceptable reading copy only. George D. Huff, M.D., was Associate Professor, San Diego State College; Fellow, American College of Surgeons; and Attending Gynecologist, San Diego County Hospital. The work is a compilation of lecture notes used by the author for over seventeen years in teaching non-medical women students of college age. While not intended as a comprehensive medical textbook for physicians, it offered a clear, accessible overview of gynecology, covering anatomy, reproductive health, menstruation, diseases of the female reproductive organs, and gynecologic surgical procedures. An accessible and well-regarded lecture-note compendium that broadened women's understanding of reproductive health and gynecological surgery beyond the medical profession. Note: Second edition was later published under the title Human Reproduction and Gynecology for Women. Contents include: Gynecology; Gynecologist; Gynecological History; Gynecological Examination; Anatomy; Glands of Internal Secretion; Ovulation; Spermatozoa; Fertilization; Menstruation; Changes Due to Menstruation; Menstruation Without Ovulation; Amenorrhea and Hypomenorrhea; Dysmenorrhea; Abnormalities of the Female Reproductive Tract; Gyantesia; Diseases of the Vulva; Diseases of the Vagina; Tumors of the Vagina; Birth Injuries; Prolapse; Repair of Pelvic Floor; Examination of the Cervix; Diseases of the Cervix; Diseases of the Uterus; Diseases of the Tubes; Tuberculosis of the Reproductive Tract; Diseases of the Ovaries.