An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16087 entries, 14173 authors and 1949 subjects. Updated: May 29, 2026

ALEXANDER, William

3 entries
  • 6077

A new method of treating inveterate and troublesome displacements of the uterus.

Med. Times Gaz., 1, 327-28, 1882.

Alexander’s suspension operation for retroversion of the uterus, first performed by him in 1881.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY
  • 4861

The treatment of epilepsy.

Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, 1889.

Alexander was the first to attempt the treatment of epilepsy by surgical means. He removed the superior cervical sympathetic ganglia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Epilepsy, NEUROSURGERY › Epilepsy
  • 6107

Enucleation of uterine fibroids.

Brit. gynaec. J., 14, 47-61, 1898.

An outstanding account of myomectomy.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY