Franz Naegele

Franz Karl Naegele (7 December 1778 – 21 January 1851) was a German obstetrician born in Düsseldorf. His son, Hermann Franz Naegele (1801–1851), was also a noted obstetrician.[1]

Franz Naegele

He earned his medical degree from the University of Bamberg, afterwards opening a medical practice in Barmen. In 1807, he became an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1810 he was appointed a full professor of obstetrics.

He is remembered for "Naegele's rule", a standard method of calculating the due date for a pregnancy. His name is also lent to "Naegele obliquity", also known as an anterior asynclytism.[2]

Selected publications
  • Beytrag zu einer naturgeschichtlichen Darstellung der krankhaften Erscheinung am thierischen Körper, welche man Entzündung nennt, und ihre Folgen. Dänzer, Düsseldorf 1804. Digitalization by the University of Düsseldorf
  • Erfahrungen und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiethe der Krankheiten des weiblichen Geschlechtes. Mannheim: Tobias Loeffler. 1812.
  • Über den Mechanismus der Geburt. Heidelberg. 1822. Translated into English by Edward Rigby in 1829 as An Essay on the Mechanism of Parturition.
  • Das Weibliche Becken: betrachtet in Beziehung auf seine Stellung und die Richtung seiner Höhle: nebst Beyträgen zur Geschichte der Lehre von den Beckenaxen. Karlsruhe: Chr. Fr. Müller. 1825.
  • Katechismus der Hebammenkunst: als Anhang zu seinem Lehrbuche der Geburtshülfe für die Hebammen : für Lehrende und Lernende (3rd ed.). Heidelberg: J.C.B. Mohr. 1836.
  • Das schräg verengte Becken; nebst einem Anhange über die wichtigsten Fehler des weiblichen Beckens. (1839); translated into English in 1939 as "The obliquely contracted pelvis, containing also an appendix of the most important defects of the female pelvis".
  • Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe (1843) – Textbook of midwifery.[3]
  • "Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Joseph Alexis Stoltz und Franz Carl Naegele der XIII.: Versammlung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie 2.-5. Juni 1909 zum Empfang gewidmet von der Universitätsfrauenklinik Straßburg I. Els". J.H. Heitz, 1909 (Letters to and from Joseph-Alexis Stoltz)
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References
  1. Archived 2013-01-27 at Archive.today Medical History Museum Ancient instruments and equipment
  2. Google Books, Essential of Obstetrics By Arulkumaran
  3. Yufind library, Yale University
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