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Medical Advice for Women

  • Published: 11 Dec 2008
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415403313
  • Set ISBN: 978-0-41540-331-3

Medical Advice for Women is a new five-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse covering professional, scientific, and medical opinion, in addition to the popular guides aimed at the female reader, between the years 1830–1915.

Medical literature from this period provides a fascinating insight into the interrelations between social proscriptions, often validated by appeals to religious authority, and medical prescriptions. The narrative contained within this largely chronological collection is not necessarily a progressive one from quackery to medical and scientific enlightenment; the situation was more nuanced than selective quotation from sensational examples has implied in the past. This collection, edited and with a new introduction by Ruth Robbins, illuminates the complexity and shifting grounds of opinion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by bringing back into print a broad selection of texts offering medical advice to women, and will be of interest to all scholars and students working in gender and cultural studies, and particularly to historians and sociologists of medicine.

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Introduction

Hints to Mothers for the Management of Health during the period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room, (London: Longman, Green & Co., 1837; 16th edition 1865)., The Restoration of Health; or, the Application of the Laws of Hygiene to the Recovery of Health:, Sea-Bathing and Sea-Air for Children and Invalids., Modern Cookery for Private Families., Knowledge for the Young., General List of Works, On the Preservation of the Health of Women at the Critical Periods of Life, (London: John Churchill, 1851)., How I Managed My Children From Infancy to Marriage, (London: Houston and Wright, 1865).

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Advice to a Wife on the Management of her own Health and on the Treatment of Some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour and Suckling; with an introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife, (London: John Churchill and Sons, 1866)., Introductory Chapter., Part I.: Menstruation., Part II.: Pregnancy., Part III.: Labour., Part IV.: Suckling., The Young Wife’s Own Book: A Manual of Personal and Family Hygiene. Containing Everything that the Young Wife Ought to Know Concerning Her Own Health and That of Her Children at the Most Important Periods of Life, (London: Griffith Farran and Co., 1882), Part I.: Management of the Mother’s Health., Part II.: Management of the Child’S Health

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Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction., The Little Girl., The Young Lady., The Wife., The Mother., The Diseases of Women.

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Medical Gynecology, (New York and London: D. Appleton and Company. [with one hundred and sixty-three illustrations for the most part by Max Broedel and A. Horn], 1908; 2nd edition 1909)., Medical Gynecology: Consulting Room and Gynecological Examination., Hygiene of Infancy and Girlhood., Normal Menstruation and the Menopause., Dysmenorrhea., Intermenstrual Pain., Amenorrhea., Menorrhagia and Metrorrhagia. Extra-Uterine Pregnancy., Constipation. Headache. Insomnia. Obesity., Backache. Coccygodynia., Acute Infectious Diseases as a Cause of Pelvic Disease., Vulvitis. Vaginitis. Cervicitis. Endometritis., Pruritus. Vaginismus. Masturbation., Displacements of the Uterus and their Treatment by Packs and Pessaries., Peltic Inflammatory Disease., Sterility., Gonococcus Infection (Gonorrhea)., Syphilis., Abortion., Injuries and Ailments Following Labor., Fibroid Tumors., Cancer of the Uterus. Diagnosis and Palliative Treatment., Cystitis., Functional Nervous Disorders Met with by the Gynecologist., Appendicitis and Diseases of the Pelvic Organs., (1) Splanchnoptosis—Enteroptosis—Glénard’s Disease. (2) Movable Kidney., Post-Operative Conditions.

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The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation, (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. [The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876], 1877), Introductory Note, Do Women Require Mental and Bodily Rest during Menstruation?, The Seven Ages of Woman: A Consideration of the Successive Phases of Woman’s Life. (London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1915), The Young Girl: The Years Immediately Preceding Puberty, The Period of Physical Change, Advent of Puberty, Abnormalities of Menstruation, Domestic Care of the Young Girl, Education, and Choice of a Profession, The Young Wife: Preparation for Marriage, The Difficulties of Early Married Life, Pregnancy, Domestic Management of Pregnancy, Preparation for Labour, The Young Mother: Signs and Symptoms of the Three Stages of Labour, Care of the Young Mother, Abnormal Pregnancy, Diseases of Pregnancy: Toxic, Nervous, and Mechanical, The Nursing Mother: Lactation and Weaning, Artificial Feeding and Wet-Nursing, Artificial Foods and Anti-Scorbutics, The Nursery—Teething—Vaccination—Circumcision, The Mother in “The Noisy Years”: The Care of Young Children, The Child in Sickness, The Commoner Ailments of Childhood, The Woman in Middle Age, The Woman in Old Age

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