Main description:

The early history of endometriosis is interwoven with the history of adenomyosis, since it was not until the mid nineteen-twenties that the two conditions were finally separated. A History of Endometriosis provides a detailed reconstruction of the progress made in identifying, describing and treating the condition we call today endometriosis.

Contents:

Dedication.- Forward.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Table of contents.- Introduction.- 1. Prelude - Goethe, Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, and Johannes Muller.- 2. Intellectual Development of Carl von Rokitansky.- 3. Microscopy and the Discovery of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
4. From von Rokitansky to von Recklinghausen to Cullen.- 5. cullen's research at johns hopkins hospital.- 6. Adenomyomas of vagina, rectum, sigmoid colon and ovary.- 7. Distribution of pelvic and abdominal adenomyomas.- 8. Sampson's theory of implantation endometriosis.- 9. Life history of ovarian endometriomas.- 10. Explication and defense of sampson's theory of pathogenesis.- 11. Scientific objectivity.- 12. Epilogue.- appendix i.- Appendix ii.- Bibliography.- Index.