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Excerpt from Supplement to Howard's Domestic Medicine, Being a Practical Treatise on Midwifery and the Diseases Peculiar to Women: Giving Elaborate Instructions in All That Pertains to the Structure, Functions and Health of the Organs of Generation We deem it important that these general principles should be known and well understood, especially by females themselves. They are the victims Of many peculiar painful maladies, hereto fore considered by medical writers, and hence by females them selves. As of a most dangerous if not incurable character. Hence, in almost all those complaints peculiar to women, and especially at the time of labor, they feel a solicitude and anxiety of which but few, perhaps, Of the other sex, aie sensible; and this anxiety has been rendered more painful and intense by the mysteries which professional ambiguity has thrown around the causes by which it is produced. All know, however, that death, from some cause or other, will take place, sooner or later; it is a consequence dependent upon our peculiar organization, as well as upon that law which proclaims an eternal mutation of matter. But we must confess that we have found the diseases Of women quite as much under the control Of medicine as those which are common to both sexes. 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.
This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with "popular medicine" in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction [from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby], venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education. These books, covering areas largely ignored by the medical profession, made important contributions to the health of the American public, and the collection is a vital piece of medical history. The collector is Edward C. Atwater, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and the History of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School. Christopher Hoolihan is History of Medicine Librarian at the University of Rochester Medical School's Edward G. Miner LIbrary.
Chronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion.
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.
Excerpt from The Family Physician and Guide to Health: A System of Domestic Medicine; Including a Treatise on Midwifery and the Diseases Peculiar to Women I have no apology to offer. I have done the very best I could in preparing the matter for this work. I have diligently consulted the ablest, latest and best authori ties in medical literature, coming from both Europe and America, and have tried hard to present the accepted facts of the history, symptoms and treatment of diseases in plain, simple and common-place language, so that every school boy or girl of intelligence can understand and comprehend them. I have given the' symptoms plainly and laid down the treatment, not only on general principles, but specially, stating exactly what to give, how much of it to give at a time, and how often to giveit. By this means I have placed a great amount of valuable information within easy reach of the common people information, too, upon which may depend their health, happiness or lives, or that of those dependent upon them. I neither deprecate nor invite criticism, believing that the critic has neither a very wide nor profitable field for his fault-finding skill. If my unpresuming book finds favor with the intelligent public, I will be content to let critics fume and fret, and enemies sneer and curl the lip with the scorn they try to feel. A few physicians, from selfish motives, may try to discourage the masses from patronizing the work, but I flatter myself that it will receive the hearty approval of a large majority of those who have kept themselves posted in the standard medical literature of the day. The intelligent physician wants an intelligent and well-informed patient: with such an one his labor is easy and pleasant. It is only those who do not know quite as much as they really should who try to keep the common people in ignorance in regard to the symptoms and treatment of disease. They fear the light of knowledge; they know in it their own feeble light would shine but idimly. 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.