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Midwifery and the diseases of women

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Midwifery and the diseases of women

Joel Shew

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Joel Shew brought the water cure into the birthing room, writing on midwifery and women's diseases from a hydropathic view. His letters cover the history of midwifery, menstruation and the disorders of his patients in frank detail. A revealing document of nineteenth-century women's medicine and the water-cure movement. Read it as history, not as guidance for today.

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  1. 1MIDWIFERY AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN A Descriptive and Practical Work SHOWING THE SUPERIORITY OF WATER-TREATMENT IN MENSTRUATION AND ITS DISORDERS, CHLOROSIS, LEUCORRHEA, FLUOR ALBUS, PROLAPSUS UTERI, HYSTERIA, SPINAL DISEASES, AND OTHER WEAKNESSES OF FEMALES; IN PREGNANCY AND ITS DISEASES, ABORTION, UTERINE HEMORRHAGE, AND THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDBIRTH, NURSING, ETC., ETC. Illustrated with numerous Cases of Treatment.
  2. 2INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4LETTER I. HISTORY OF MIDWIFERY.
  5. 5LETTER II. OF MENSTRUATION.
  6. 6AGE AT WHICH THE MENSES COMMENCE.
  7. 7LETTER III. OF MENSTRUATION.
  8. 8COMMENCEMENT OF THE MENSTRUAL DISCHARGE.
  9. 9SOURCE OF THE MENSES.
  10. 10PERIODICITY.
  11. 11NATURE OF THE MENSTRUAL DISCHARGE.
  12. 12QUANTITY.
  13. 13LETTER IV. OF MENSTRUATION.
  14. 14AGE AT WHICH THE MENSES CEASE.
  15. 15EXTENT OF THE FRUITFUL PERIOD.
  16. 16IS THIS PERIOD A DANGEROUS ONE?
  17. 17THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
  18. 18MANAGEMENT AT THE CHANGE OF LIFE.

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