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Excerpt from Practical Treatise on Diseases Peculiar to Women and Girls, to Which Is Added an Eclectic System of Midwifery: Also, the Treatment of the Diseases of Children and the Remedies Used in the Cure of Diseases; Particularly Adapted to the Use of Heads of Families and Midwives Having looked over a thinly settled country, and seen by necessity, a great number of persons obliged to-relieve themselves and their families, i was struck with the im portance of putting into their hands such a work as would guide them in a plain and prompt manner in the discarge of their duty. I hope to be credited when I declare that the present work has not been undertaken without due de liberation upon the responsibility attached to such an en terprise, and that my aim most honestly is to be useful, and supply the public with a plain, accurate and practical work on the science of midwifery, and those diseases which peculiarly affect the female sex and children. I shall endeavor to proceed as candidly, honestly and sys tematically as a work of this kind will admit of. Most of the systems of medicine that have appeared in public, have been written for the learned and scientific, clothed with medical terms, such as are not generally understood by those who are laboring under disease, and most needed help, or those who were called upon to practice the art of midwifery in a country thinly inhabited. The question will naturally arise, shall we lock up and withhold from the snfiering patient the cause of her malady, the symptoms which spell her disease, the means of her restoration, and let her pine away in suffering sol itude, when there is balm in Gilead, and virtue within her own reach! Enlightened reason would say no. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve’s Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed “secret knowledge” to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal, and other herbs was widespread through succeeding centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the fetus was fully human from the moment of conception. Drawing on previously unavailable material, Riddle reaches a startling conclusion: while it did not persist in a form that was available to most women, ancient knowledge about herbs was not lost in modern times but survived in coded form. Persecuted as “witchcraft” in centuries past and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by “Eve’s herbs” has been practiced by Western women since ancient times.
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