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The married woman's private medical companion

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Holistic Healing

The married woman's private medical companion

A. M. Mauriceau

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Published under a pseudonym, this notorious companion for the married woman spoke plainly about menstruation and its disorders when few books dared. A commercial sensation and a target of censors, it reveals how women's medicine was sold and suppressed in its century. A significant document of medical and social history, offered as history, not guidance. Open a book that once scandalized a nation.

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  1. 1THE MARRIED WOMAN’S PRIVATE MEDICAL COMPANION, EMBRACING THE TREATMENT OF MENSTRUATION, OR MONTHLY TURNS, DURING THEIR STOPPAGE, IRREGULARITY, OR ENTIRE SUPPRESSION. PREGNANCY, AND HOW IT MAY BE DETERMINED; WITH THE TREATMENT OF ITS VARIOUS DISEASES. DISCOVERY TO PREVENT PREGNANCY; ITS GREAT AND IMPORTANT NECESSITY WHERE MALFORMATION OR INABILITY EXISTS TO GIVE BIRTH. TO PREVENT MISCARRIAGE OR ABORTION. WHEN PROPER AND NECESSARY TO EFFECT MISCARRIAGE. WHEN ATTENDED WITH ENTIRE SAFETY. CAUSES AND MODE OF CURE OF BARRENNESS, OR STERILITY.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3INDEX
  4. 4INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
  5. 5MENSTRUATION.
  6. 6RETENTION OF THE MENSES.
  7. 7Description.
  8. 8Causes.
  9. 9Symptoms.
  10. 10Treatment.
  11. 11SUPPRESSION OF THE MENSES.
  12. 12Description.
  13. 13Treatment.
  14. 14PAINFUL AND IMPERFECT MENSTRUATION.
  15. 15Description.
  16. 16Treatment.
  17. 17IMMODERATE FLOW OF THE MENSES.
  18. 18Symptoms.

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