Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1395

ROBERT GOOCH (1784-1830) An account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women. E. L. Carey & A. Hart 1832 From the 2nd London ed. xiv [15]-326 [2] pp., illus. 21.6 cm.

Gooch, a native of Yarmouth, was apprenticed to a local surgeon and apothecary at age fifteen. In 1804 his family sent him to Edinburgh, where he received his medical degree in 1807. Gooch then spent a year studying anatomy and surgery in London and entered practice at Croydon. A few years later he returned to London where he established what became a highly successful private practice and served as physician to several prominent hospitals during his career. Gooch specialized in obstetrics and served at the Westminister Lying-In Hospital and the City of London Lying-In Hospital, and he lectured on midwifery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The present work was the first of Gooch's two major treatises and was first published at London in 1829. It became the primary text of the day and was later reprinted by the New Sydenham Society. Gooch was particularly interested in the study of mental illness and devotes a portion of the book to the mental health of pregnancy and the postpartum period. In addition he discusses puerperal fever, neoplasms of the uterus, and other disorders of the female genital tract.

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 135 (London ed., 1829)