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The domestic instructor in midwifery : containing directions for the proper treatment of sexual diseases of women : for the management of pregnancy, labor, & child-bed : also, for the treatment of new-born infants : compiled for the advantage and use of such as have not access to a physician / by Dr. George Denig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denig, George, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth.
- Menstruation.
- Pregnancy.
- Uterus--Diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xiv, 271 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- M'Connellsburg, Penn'a : [publisher not identified], 1838.
- Summary:
- By the "sexual disease of women" Denig means menstruation and uterine disorders, to which he devotes his first thirty-eight pages. The signs and diseases of pregnancy occupy the next thirty-two pages; followed by 123 pages on parturition. Denig concludes the book with chapters on puerperal disorders and the management of mother and infant in the first month after delivery.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 64186.D
- During the antebellum period formally trained male physicians took over much of the practice of midwives in the Eastern cities, but further west and in rural areas midwives still played a major role, with the help of locally printed books such as this.
- Includes index.
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Chris
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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