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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The domestic instructor in midwifery: containing directions for the proper treatment of sexual diseases of women; for the management of pregnancy, labor, & child-bed; also, for the treatment of new-born infants. Compiled for the advantage and use of such as have not access to a physician |
| Reference | 64186.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1838 |
| Author | Denig, George |
| Place of Creation | McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania |
| Description | During the antebellum period formally trained male physicians took over much of the practice of midwives in the Eastern cities, but further west and in rural areas midwives still played a major role, with the help of locally printed books such as this. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Women's Health; Sexual Health |
| Keywords | domestic, cure, midwife, disease, female complaints, pregnancy, childbirth, children, physician, menstruation, tumour, inflammation, symptoms, nursing |
| Parts of the Body | reproductive organs |
| Additional Information | By the "sexual disease of women" Denig means menstruation and uterine disorders, to which he devotes his first thirty0eight pages. The signs and diseases of pregnancy occupy the next thirty-two pages; followed by 123 pages on parturition. Denig concludes the book with chapters on puerperal disorders and the management of mother and infant in the first month after delivery. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Chris |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |